Book excerpt: The Preen Family History Study Group exists to promote research into the history of this family. It does this by organising annual reunions, publishing books and circulating a newsletter. In 2012, the reunion was held in Leebotwood, a small Shropshire village on the main road between Shrewsbury and Church Stretton, which had been home to one family of Preens. Richard Preen and his wife Sarah moved into Leebotwood around 1845 and the family remained there for the next hundred years. At our reunion, we visited places associated with this family and heard about their life and times. This booklet remembers them.