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.

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

Rivers and Streams to visit near Betton Strange include River Clun.

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

Betton Strange has some unmissable ruins nearby like Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

Don't miss Acton Burnell's villages if visiting the area around Betton Strange.

Places near Betton Strange feature a number of interesting historic buildings including Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell.

There are a number of shopping centres near to Betton Strange including Telford Centre.

Betton Strange History

There are some historic monuments around Betton Strange:

• Shrewsbury Abbey (including pulpit)
• Churchyard cross SW of St Giles Church
• Site discovered by aerial photography
• Moated site 480m east of Yeaton Peverey Farm
• 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
• Town wall section W of Belmont Crescent
• Town wall section E of Belmont Crescent
• Castle motte 50m south east of St John the Baptist's Church.
• Moated site, prospect mound and fishponds adjacent to Isle Farm
• Abutment of Roman bridge at Radnor Bridge
• Shrewsbury Castle
• Moated site 400m north west of Whitley Grange
• The Burgs
• Moat Farm moated site
• Slight univallate hillfort and a World War II vehicle testing station on the summit of Ebury Hill, 550m west of Haughton Farm
• Castle Bank motte and bailey castle, 150m north west of Woolstaston Hall.
• Queen Eleanor's Bower: a ringwork, 710m north east of Bridge Farm
• Moated site and associated ridge and furrow cultivation remains, 145m south of St Mary Magdalene's Church
• Moated site and fishponds 150m north of Attingham Home Farm
• Wroxeter Roman fort
• Medieval fishpond reservoir NE of Haughmond Abbey and SW of the hamlet of Haughton
• Moated site and an associated field system 240m south of Panson Farm
• College of St Mary Magdalene at Battlefield
• Moat House moated site and an associated fishpond
• Length of medieval town wall, sally port and interval tower
• Remains of tower in Victoria Avenue
• Moated site and fishpond 450m north west of Hunkington
• Iron Age settlement site in Bomere Wood
• Langley Hall moated site and Langley Chapel
• Moated site, fishponds and ridge and furrow cultivation remains, 260m south west of Betton Alkmere
• Hilltop enclosure and hut circle on the northern end of The Lawley, 250m north of Blackhurst Farm
• Site of Roman town of Wroxeter (Viroconium)
• Slight univallate hillfort, an 18th century folly and a World War II spigot mortar emplacement, on the summit of Haughmond Hill
• Harlescott Grange moated site
• Medieval cross in St Martin's churchyard, Preston Gubbals
• Earthwork E of Bank Farm
• Haughmond Abbey: an Augustinian monastery on the site of an earlier religious foundation, a post-Dissolution residence and garden remains
• Acton Burnell Castle, a moated site with chamber block and tithe barn