Parliamentary soldiers from Tamworth and Coventry stole horses, including a mare worth ten pounds from Mr. Hall.

John Hodges, was ejected from the living in 1646 and brought before the parliamentary sequestration committee for deserting his parish to join the royalist garrison at Ashby for four months.

[4] In the early eighteenth century, John Nichols records a fine church, a water mill and an absentee parson, Dr Adamthwaite, a prolific and energetic letter-writer, who was vicar from 1779 to 1811.

The stations claim to fame is that it was the first destination of the new London and North Western Railway Royal Train for King Edward VII in December 1902.

During World War II, the remains of the motte-and-bailey castle in the village had an air raid shelter dug into it.

From 1994 to 2019 Shackerstone also hosted a large family festival, usually in the first week of September that covered everything from vintage cars to aerobatic stunt planes.