Containing about a dozen cottages,[1] Shelfield today is best known for its culture of equestrianism, its handful of Grade II listed buildings, and until 2013 it was also a home to the Baron Kilmaine.

[4] Transliterating the Domesday Book Latin the entry reads: In Scelfeld est hida vasta pertinens eidem Manerio.

There was some land in Shelfield which "was already imparked by the middle of the 13th century, when the second William de Cantilupe granted to Studley Priory all his assets without the park there as bounded by the road from Spernall to Aston Cantlow.

Although, few records survive that explicitly document the descent of the manor and the lordship of Shelfield, it is clear that it initially devolved from the chief manor of Alston sometime around 2 July 1314 when William le Walsse is first recorded as holding a plot called "Shelfhull.

[3][8] Then in 1742 the open fields of Shelfield were inclosed by an Act of Parliament – creating a legal right to private ownership of once common lands.

However, the title to the Lordship of Shelfield was successfully restored[13] to the 9th Lord of the Manor, and a descendant of the aforementioned Gibbs family.

As a wedding gift he subsequently gave the title to his fiancé, who is now the sua jure 10th Lady of the Manor of Shelfield.