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.

Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford are some of Betton Abbots best towns to visit near Betton Abbots.

Betton Abbots is near some unmissable rivers and streams like River Clun,

Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle are great places to visit near Betton Abbots if you like castles.

There are a number of ruins near Betton Abbots including Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

There are a several good villages in the area around Betton Abbots like Acton Burnell.

The area around Betton Abbots's best historic buildings can be found at Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell.

Telford Centre is one of Betton Abbots's best, nearby shopping centres to visit in Betton Abbots.

Betton Abbots History

There are some historic monuments around Betton Abbots:

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