Buildwas is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Buildwas postcode: TF8 7DA

Retail in Buildwas

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

There are a number of towns near Buildwas including Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford.

There are a several good rivers and streams in the area around Buildwas like River Clun.

The area around Buildwas boasts some of the best castles including Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

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

The area close to Buildwas boasts some of the best villages including Acton Burnell.

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

Shopping Centres to visit near Buildwas include Telford Centre.

Buildwas History

There are some historic monuments around Buildwas:

• Coalport Bridge
• Blists Hill Iron Furnaces
• Coal mining remains 350m north west and 520m north of New Works village
• Canal aqueduct over River Tern
• Roman villa NE of Cottage Coppice
• Coalport Inclined Plane
• Wrekin Rifle Range
• Large multivallate and univallate hillforts, a round barrow, a Late Bronze Age settlement and WWII military remains, on The Wrekin
• Wappenshall canal bridge, Shropshire Union Canal
• The Iron Bridge
• New Willey Ironworks
• Moated site and an associated raised earthen platform 510m north of Mill Farm
• Medieval cross in St Gregory's churchyard
• Moated site at Whitwell
• Buildwas Abbey
• Darby Ironworks, Coalbrookdale (furnaces, forehearths and blowing house areas)
• Group of round barrows at Willowmoor
• Lilleshall Beam Blowing Engines
• Moated site, ridge and furrow cultivation remains and a building platform immediately north of Lower Grounds
• Bedlam Furnaces
• St Leonard's Priory immediately adjacent to the Church of St Mary and St Leonard, Wombridge
• Medieval cross in Holy Trinity churchyard
• Moated site and a fishpond 160m and 280m south of The Farm, Charlton
• Churchyard of St James's Church
• Wenlock Priory