SHENSTONE, a parish in the southern division of the hundred of OFFLOW, county of STAFFORD, 3 miles (S. by W.) from Lichfield, containing 1699 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £ 6. 5. 8., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Sir Robert Peel, Bart. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, exhibits specimens of the various styles of English architecture. There is a chapel of ease at Upper Stonnal. An unknown benefactor gave £27 towards building a school-room, for the support of which there is a trifling endowment. There was once a castle, or fortification, at Upper Stonnal, of which only the remembrance is preserved in the name of Castle field. A fair for cattle is held on the last Monday in February.