The parish is very small (both in area covered and population – 220 people) and is located on the Shropshire Council/Telford and Wrekin Council boundary.

By the choir is a brass to Adam Grafton who was priest of Upton Magna and of the Battlefield College as well as being vicar of Withington.

Little remains of these times but scattered around the village are eight half-timbered houses, most now beautifully restored and extended, which would have been in existence then.

The blacksmith's shop opposite the pub, featured on postcards in the early years of the 20th century, was demolished in the 1960s.

It traveled alongside the churchyard wall where there was a big pool in front of Church Farm where the boats could turn.

The population of Withington in 1861 was 232; the village boasted a blacksmith, two wheelwrights, a shopkeeper and the landlord of the Hare and Hounds.

In 1911 the sale of the Tayleur estate led to changes in the Walcot Lees to Rodington area of Withington.

Children going to private or grammar schools took the train from Walcot or Upton Magna stations whilst pupils at the secondary modern at Harlescott were bused into Shrewsbury.

As a result of a petition the daily bus service from Shrewsbury to Upton Magna was extended to Withington.

The 1960s and modernisation Withington remained an agricultural community on this scale until the late 1960s when changes began to occur.

The population had become rather elderly, children moved away out of agriculture and, as houses came up for sale, they were bought by people who wanted to live in the country and had the means to modernise them.

In 1982 the shop and post office closed and there have been problems maintaining a bus service to both Shrewsbury and Telford.

However, newer residents continue to give new life to the church and take leading roles in it and the wider community through the Parish Council and local societies.

The pub, the church and Parish Room still survive and there are local shopping and post office facilities in neighbouring villages.