Outlying areas of Minsterley Parish include: Horsebridge, Reabrook, Etsell, Plox Green, Wagbeach and Waterwheel.

A significant number of the local population work for the two firms which are the main employers in the village which are the Minsterley Creamery and the Rea Valley Food Factory. Other employers are David Davies and Sons egg producers, the Hillcrest Manor Nursing Home and the Malthouse Veterinary Surgery.

There is a fire station in Minsterley village with a retained crew and the area Police Station is in nearby Pontesbury where there is also a Medical Centre and a Dental Surgery.

Minsterley village amenities include a primary school, a public house called The Crown and Sceptre which is one of the oldest buildings in the village, a petrol station and supermarket, a post office, a florist, a butchers shop and a fish and chip shop.

Minsterley is a village with a long history and in spite of its recent growth and industrial sites it retains some interesting historic buildings of which the Tudor Minsterley Hall and the Parish Church are prime examples. The Parish Church of Holy Trinity is a most unusal building; dating from 1692. It was built by the Thynne family of Longleat and it houses an internationally famous collection of 18th century Maiden's Garlands. The exterior of the west end of the church is notable for the stonework which includes skull and cross bones and hour glasses.

Local Toll houses dated from the establishment and improvement of the turnpike network and the one in the centre of the village is of particular interest. There is also an unusual Victorian cast iron public urinal in the village square.

The area adjacent to the Crown and Sceptre public house was where the annual Hiring Fair was held in the late 19th Century. Young people of work age would be hired by local landowners for the year in return for an agreed sum of money to be paid at the following year's fair.

The old Minsterley branch line was built as a joint GWR and LNWR railroad which was opened on 14 February 1862. This railway line ran nine and a half miles from Shrewsbury via Cruckmeole Junction near Hanwood to the stations at Plealey Road, Pontesbury and finally to the terminus at Minsterley. The creation of the line enabled milk to be transported by rail from the large creamery at Minsterley and it also took lead ore from the nearby mines at Snailbeach. At one time the terminus in Minsterley boasted a milk wharf, goods shed, cattle and horse docks and numerous sidings. The line finally closed in May 1967.