Shocklach village is in the southwestern corner of Cheshire, approximately 1 kilometre (0.6 mi) from the border between Wales and England, the River Dee.

[3] Using information provided by the Vision of Britain website, we are able to see the history of the social structure of Shocklach in the nineteenth century.

"Based on contemporary ideas than on modern definitions of social class: ‘middling sorts' combines small farmers not employing labourers with both masters and skilled workers in urban manufacturing and handicrafts".

[4] The "well-preserved" remains of an early post-Conquest motte castle lie on the northern edge of the parish, near the hamlet of Castletown.

The castle is situated on what is thought to have been an ancient trackway, and was built by the Barons of Malpas in around 1100 to protect the region from frequent Welsh raids.

[5] St Edith's Church, standing in the middle of fields on its own a mile north of the village overlooking the River Dee and Wales, is a Grade I listed building.

Nave and chancel, and double bellcote... the odd W baptistery squeezed between the two buttresses looks a rustic C17 job”.

In spring 1993, a few enthusiasts from Shocklach, encouraged by the support of a number of others, managed to save from demolition an old and apparently insignificant building close to St Edith's church.

The Shocklach village website provides a biodiversity survey, recording a vast range of plants and animals from March 2009 up to December 2012.

Some of the trees have not survived; however, many have and these are the ones that "will replace the ageing oaks and ashes which form part of the landscape which most of us take for granted".