Sheinton is a small rural village and civil parish in Shropshire

Shropshire

Shropshire is a county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. It borders Wales to the west...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. It is situated on the south bank of the River Severn

River Severn

The River Severn is the longest river in Great Britain, at about , but the second longest on the British Isles, behind the River Shannon. It rises at an altitude of on Plynlimon, Ceredigion near Llanidloes, Powys, in the Cambrian Mountains of mid Wales...

 opposite the Wrekin

The Wrekin

The Wrekin is a hill in east Shropshire, England. It is located some west of Telford, on the border between the unitary authorities of Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin. Rising to a height of above the Shropshire Plain, it is a prominent and well-known landmark, marking the entrance to Shropshire...

, a notable Shropshire landmark.

The name comes from the Saxon shena - tun, meaning "beautiful place".

On 23 October 2008 its historic bridge collapsed into the Hughley Brook.

Benjamin Bailey

Benjamin Bailey (missionary)

Benjamin Bailey was a British missionary in Kerala for 34 years. He finally left Travancore in 1850. He was ordained 1815 and moved to Kerala in 1816 where he founded a mission station in Kottayam, and in 1821 established a printing press...

, missionary to Kerala, India, and an important figure in the history of the Malayalam language, was rector of Sheinton from his retirement in 1850 to his death in 1871.