Moreton Corbet is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Moreton Corbet and Lee Brockhurst, in the Shropshire district, in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. The village's toponym refers to the Corbet family, the local landowners.
St Bartholomew's parish church
The Elizabethan wing of Moreton Corbet castle
Tomb of Sir Richard Corbet and Margaret Corbet
The Corbet family is an aristocratic English family of Anglo-Norman extraction, who were amongst the early marcher lords, holding the barony of Caus. Following the extinction of the senior line the junior line based at Moreton Corbet Castle would go on to become one of the most powerful and richest of the landed gentry in Shropshire. The family trace their ancestry to two barons found in the 1086 Domesday Book and they probably came from the Boitron and Essay region, near Sées in Normandy.
Remains of Moreton Corbet Castle
1880s image of Jean Thomas Corbet and wife taken by Grut photographers, Guernsey Channel Island
A postcard c. 1920 of Acton Reynald Hall
Rowallan Castle, Ayrshire