Betton Abbots is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Betton Abbots postcode: SY5 6JD

Retail in Betton Abbots

There are great places to visit near Betton Abbots including some great towns, rivers and streams, castles, ruins, villages, historic buildings and shopping centres.

Towns to visit near Betton Abbots include Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford.

Don't miss River Clun's rivers and streams if visiting the area around Betton Abbots.

Betton Abbots has some unmissable castles nearby like Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

The area around Betton Abbots features a number of interesting ruins including Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

There are a number of villages near to Betton Abbots including Acton Burnell.

Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell is a great place to visit close to Betton Abbots if you like historic buildings.

Betton Abbots is near some unmissable shopping centres like Telford Centre,

Betton Abbots History

There are some historic monuments around Betton Abbots:

• Moated site and fishponds 150m north of Attingham Home Farm
• Moated site, prospect mound and fishponds adjacent to Isle Farm
• The Burgs
• Cross dyke and hut platform on the summit of The Lawley, 100m south west of OS trig pillar.
• Churchyard cross SW of St Giles Church
• Remains of tower in Victoria Avenue
• Acton Burnell Castle, a moated site with chamber block and tithe barn
• Abutment of Roman bridge at Radnor Bridge
• Town wall section E of Belmont Crescent
• Haughmond Abbey: an Augustinian monastery on the site of an earlier religious foundation, a post-Dissolution residence and garden remains
• Remains of the crypt or undercroft to the Old Church of St Chad
• Hilltop enclosure and hut circle on the northern end of The Lawley, 250m north of Blackhurst Farm
• Earthwork E of Bank Farm
• Queen Eleanor's Bower: a ringwork, 710m north east of Bridge Farm
• Iron Age settlement site in Bomere Wood
• Slight univallate hillfort, an 18th century folly and a World War II spigot mortar emplacement, on the summit of Haughmond Hill
• Moat Farm moated site
• Wroxeter Roman fort
• Moated site 400m north west of Whitley Grange
• Shrewsbury Abbey (including pulpit)
• Moat House moated site and an associated fishpond
• Harlescott Grange moated site
• Motte and bailey castle 50m to the west of St Michael's church.
• Moated site, fishponds and ridge and furrow cultivation remains, 260m south west of Betton Alkmere
• Moated site and fishpond 450m north west of Hunkington
• Length of medieval town wall, sally port and interval tower
• Castle motte 50m south east of St John the Baptist's Church.
• College of St Mary Magdalene at Battlefield
• Medieval fishpond reservoir NE of Haughmond Abbey and SW of the hamlet of Haughton
• Castle Bank motte and bailey castle, 150m north west of Woolstaston Hall.
• Site of Roman town of Wroxeter (Viroconium)
• Town wall section W of Belmont Crescent
• Langley Hall moated site and Langley Chapel
• Shrewsbury Castle
• Slight univallate hillfort and a World War II vehicle testing station on the summit of Ebury Hill, 550m west of Haughton Farm
• Site discovered by aerial photography