page_title: Kinlet
section_title: The Village
hierarchical_section_title: Kinlet / The Village
caption_attribution_description: English: Kinlet hall Now a school.
context_page_description: Kinlet is a small village and civil parish in the south-east of the county of Shropshire, England. The parish is on the northern edge of the Wyre Forest and is in the Bridgnorth District of Shropshire. The parish incorporates the hamlets of Kinlet Village, Button Bridge and Button Oak. Kinlet is located 18 miles south of Telford, the main town in Shropshire and 23 miles west of Birmingham.
  The village is located in the centre of the parish. Its parish has a population of 680 according to the 2001 Census, The land within the parish totals 8,164 acres. increasing to 901 at the 2011 census. There is little in terms of employment in the parish, with residents travelling to nearby towns and cities.
context_section_description: The centre of the village is located at the meeting of the roads, B4363 and B4194. In the centre of the village there is a primary school. Kinlet C of E Primary school caters for children aged between 4 and 11 years old.
  There is also an independent, residential school to the north-west of the village, based in Kinlet Hall. Moffats School is for children aged between 4 and 13 years old and has been based in Kinlet Hall since the end of the Second World War. Older pupils travel to the Lacon Childe School in Cleobury Mortimer.
  There are two public houses in the parish, The Eagle and Serpent in village of Kinlet and the Button Oak Inn the village of Button Oak. There is also a village hall and a residential care home.
  There are two churches in the parish. St. John the Baptist church is the Anglican parish church located along the drive to Kinlet Hall. The church is a stone structure built by the Normans and is Grade I listed by English Heritage. Within the church there are standing monuments to Sir George Blount and his wife, Constantia, dated 1581. There are also tombs for Sir Humphrey Blount and his wife, Elizabeth and Sir John Blount and his wife, Catherine. The church was restored in 1892 by John Oldrid Scott who later designed the memorial to Major Charles Baldwyn Childe (killed in Boer War 1900).
  St Andrew's Church in Button Oak is also an Anglican church. It was built in the 19th century as a mission church for people working in the Wyre Forest.
caption: Kinlet Hall – Now The Moffatt School
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