Shocklach Oviatt is predominantly farmland and a former civil parish encompassing Shocklach village, Shocklach Green, bordering the RIver Dee on the English-Welsh boarder. Church Shocklach is the area to the North and West of Shocklach and included Castletown.
St Edith's Church, , buile around 1150 is a small Norman church, about 1 mile North of the village and is one of the oldest ecclesiastical buildings in Cheshire.