Nearby villages include Cardington, Longville in the Dale, Ticklerton and Wall under Haywood.

The name Rushbury is thought to derive from Rush Manor,[2] but other evidence suggests that it could originate from the Old English 'risc', literally meaning 'a place where rushes grow', and the Old English word 'burh', meaning a 'fortified place'; putting the two together gives 'Rush Fortification'.

[3] Human activity has been present since Neolithic times and there was once an Iron Age hill fort.

Rushbury also had enough woodland in the Middle Ages to fatten 40 swine and about 1250, one pig in ten was given to the lord of Lutwyche.

[10] Wilderhope Manor, a 16th-century country house restored in 1936 and now owned by the National Trust, is used as a Youth Hostel.

[11] The founding date of the church is unknown, but was most likely built around Saxon times and the name St Peter was known by around 1740.

Inside the church is a wall tablet listing these men, and another to the apparent only local man to die in the Second World War, Stanley Thomas Hughes.

[20] The nearest major settlement is Church Stretton at 5 km (5 miles) and is about 26 km (16 miles) from the county town of Shrewsbury[21] Rushbury Road runs through Rushbury Village itself and connects to the B4371, which in turn connects to the nearest major road A49 that runs through Church Stretton and goes to Shrewsbury in the north.

The 540 Shrewsbury - Cardington service operates Monday-Friday (excludes bank holidays) during school term time.

[22] There are many established paths and public rights of way, the nearest main public bridle path being Coats Wood which connects to other bridle ways, some of which run almost the entire length of Wenlock Edge.