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Promoting Lilleshall's rich history through community engagement and preservation of local heritage.

A brief history of Lilleshall

The village dates back to the Anglo Saxon times, the parish church being founded by St Chad. It is mentioned in the domesday book

The Abbey some distance to the east of the village was an Augustinian house, founded in the 12th century, dissolved 1538 and surrounds were the site of considerate early industrial development from as early as 16th century when Walter Leveson (1551-1602) established a bloomery. In the 19th and 20th centuries relatively shallow deposits of coal and limestone were mined with resultant subsidence. At a similar time to the mining of limestone an early example f the English canal network was dug. The Donnington Wood canal and its Lilleshall branch which were connected by an inclined plane.