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.

Buildwas has some unmissable towns nearby like Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford.

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

Castles to visit near Buildwas include Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

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

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

Historic Buildings to visit near Buildwas include Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell.

Telford Centre is a great place to visit close to Buildwas if you like shopping centres.

Buildwas History

There are some historic monuments around Buildwas:

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