Cantlop is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Cantlop postcode: SY5 7DG

Retail in Cantlop

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

There are a several good towns in the Cantlop area like Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford.

Don't miss River Clun's rivers and streams if visiting the area around Cantlop.

There are a number of castles near Cantlop including Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

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

Villages to visit near Cantlop include Acton Burnell.

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

Shopping Centres to visit near Cantlop include Telford Centre.

Cantlop History

There are some historic monuments around Cantlop:

• Enclosure and building platform on Nover's Hill, 250m east of Cwmdale Farm
• Shrewsbury Castle
• Abutment of Roman bridge at Radnor Bridge
• Moat Farm moated site
• Town wall section E of Belmont Crescent
• Length of medieval town wall, sally port and interval tower
• Medieval fishpond reservoir NE of Haughmond Abbey and SW of the hamlet of Haughton
• Site discovered by aerial photography
• Moated site, prospect mound and fishponds adjacent to Isle Farm
• Remains of the crypt or undercroft to the Old Church of St Chad
• Bowl barrow on Plush Hill, 120m north west of Jinlye
• Queen Eleanor's Bower: a ringwork, 710m north east of Bridge Farm
• Bowl barrow on Robin's Tump, 600m south west of Hill House
• Cross dyke and hut platform on the summit of The Lawley, 100m south west of OS trig pillar.
• Caer Caradoc large multivallate hillfort, associated causeway and Caractacus' Cave on the summit of Caer Caradoc Hill
• Slight univallate hillfort and a World War II vehicle testing station on the summit of Ebury Hill, 550m west of Haughton Farm
• Moat House moated site and an associated fishpond
• Acton Burnell Castle, a moated site with chamber block and tithe barn
• Moated site and fishpond 450m north west of Hunkington
• Earthwork E of Bank Farm
• Slight univallate hillfort, an 18th century folly and a World War II spigot mortar emplacement, on the summit of Haughmond Hill
• Wroxeter Roman fort
• Town wall section W of Belmont Crescent
• Castle motte 50m south east of St John the Baptist's Church.
• Shrewsbury Abbey (including pulpit)
• Langley Hall moated site and Langley Chapel
• Iron Age settlement site in Bomere Wood
• Moated site and fishponds 150m north of Attingham Home Farm
• Castle Hill, 150m north west of St Michael and All Angels Church
• Haughmond Abbey: an Augustinian monastery on the site of an earlier religious foundation, a post-Dissolution residence and garden remains
• Remains of tower in Victoria Avenue
• The Burgs
• Hilltop enclosure and hut circle on the northern end of The Lawley, 250m north of Blackhurst Farm
• Site of Roman town of Wroxeter (Viroconium)
• Moated site, fishponds and ridge and furrow cultivation remains, 260m south west of Betton Alkmere
• Churchyard cross SW of St Giles Church
• Harlescott Grange moated site
• Moated site, ridge and furrow cultivation remains, a post-medieval formal garden and pond bays 600m south east of Court Farm, Gretton
• Moated site 400m north west of Whitley Grange