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.

Towns to visit near Cantlop include Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford.

Cantlop is near some unmissable rivers and streams like River Clun,

There are a several good castles in the Cantlop area like Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

Ruins to visit near Cantlop include Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

Acton Burnell is one of Cantlop's best, nearby villages to visit in Cantlop.

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

Telford Centre is one of Cantlop's best, nearby shopping centres to visit in Cantlop.

Cantlop History

There are some historic monuments around Cantlop:

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