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.

Don't miss Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford's towns if visiting the area around Cantlop.

Places near Cantlop feature a number of interesting rivers and streams including River Clun.

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

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

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

The area close to Cantlop boasts some of the best historic buildings including Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell.

Cantlop is near some unmissable shopping centres like Telford Centre,

Cantlop History

There are some historic monuments around Cantlop:

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