Betton Strange is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Betton Strange postcode: SY5 6JA

Retail in Betton Strange

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

The area around Betton Strange features a number of interesting towns including Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford.

River Clun is a great place to visit close to Betton Strange if you like rivers and streams.

Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle are some of Betton Strange best castles to visit near Betton Strange.

Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle are some of Betton Strange best ruins to visit near Betton Strange.

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

Betton Strange is near some unmissable historic buildings like Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell,

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

Betton Strange History

There are some historic monuments around Betton Strange:

• Site of Roman town of Wroxeter (Viroconium)
• Wroxeter Roman fort
• Motte and bailey castle 50m to the west of St Michael's church.
• Remains of the crypt or undercroft to the Old Church of St Chad
• Haughmond Abbey: an Augustinian monastery on the site of an earlier religious foundation, a post-Dissolution residence and garden remains
• Shrewsbury Abbey (including pulpit)
• Churchyard cross SW of St Giles Church
• Castle Bank motte and bailey castle, 150m north west of Woolstaston Hall.
• Town wall section W of Belmont Crescent
• Langley Hall moated site and Langley Chapel
• 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
• Slight univallate hillfort and a World War II vehicle testing station on the summit of Ebury Hill, 550m west of Haughton Farm
• Abutment of Roman bridge at Radnor Bridge
• Town wall section E of Belmont Crescent
• Moat Farm moated site
• Moated site, fishponds and ridge and furrow cultivation remains, 260m south west of Betton Alkmere
• College of St Mary Magdalene at Battlefield
• Moated site, prospect mound and fishponds adjacent to Isle Farm
• The Burgs
• Moated site and an associated field system 240m south of Panson Farm
• Site discovered by aerial photography
• Moat House moated site and an associated fishpond
• Acton Burnell Castle, a moated site with chamber block and tithe barn
• Shrewsbury Castle
• Moated site 400m north west of Whitley Grange
• Castle motte 50m south east of St John the Baptist's Church.
• Length of medieval town wall, sally port and interval tower
• Moated site and fishpond 450m north west of Hunkington
• Hilltop enclosure and hut circle on the northern end of The Lawley, 250m north of Blackhurst Farm
• Moated site and associated ridge and furrow cultivation remains, 145m south of St Mary Magdalene's Church
• Medieval cross in St Martin's churchyard, Preston Gubbals
• Moated site 480m east of Yeaton Peverey Farm
• Earthwork E of Bank Farm
• Queen Eleanor's Bower: a ringwork, 710m north east of Bridge Farm
• Remains of tower in Victoria Avenue
• Medieval fishpond reservoir NE of Haughmond Abbey and SW of the hamlet of Haughton
• Harlescott Grange moated site
• Moated site and fishponds 150m north of Attingham Home Farm