Cound is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Cound postcode: SY5 6AP

Retail in Cound

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

The area around Cound features a number of interesting towns including Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford.

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

Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle are great places to visit near Cound if you like castles.

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

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

Don't miss Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell's historic buildings if visiting the area around Cound.

Cound is near some unmissable shopping centres like Telford Centre,

Cound History

There are some historic monuments around Cound:

• Moat House moated site and an associated fishpond
• Shrewsbury Castle
• Haughmond Abbey: an Augustinian monastery on the site of an earlier religious foundation, a post-Dissolution residence and garden remains
• Acton Burnell Castle, a moated site with chamber block and tithe barn
• Medieval fishpond reservoir NE of Haughmond Abbey and SW of the hamlet of Haughton
• Canal aqueduct over River Tern
• Moated site and fishpond 450m north west of Hunkington
• Moated site and an associated raised earthen platform 510m north of Mill Farm
• Site of Roman town of Wroxeter (Viroconium)
• Remains of the crypt or undercroft to the Old Church of St Chad
• Slight univallate hillfort, an 18th century folly and a World War II spigot mortar emplacement, on the summit of Haughmond Hill
• Hilltop enclosure and hut circle on the northern end of The Lawley, 250m north of Blackhurst Farm
• Wroxeter Roman fort
• Harlescott Grange moated site
• Moated site, fishponds and ridge and furrow cultivation remains, 260m south west of Betton Alkmere
• Langley Hall moated site and Langley Chapel
• Moated site and a fishpond 160m and 280m south of The Farm, Charlton
• Queen Eleanor's Bower: a ringwork, 710m north east of Bridge Farm
• Iron Age settlement site in Bomere Wood
• Roman villa NE of Cottage Coppice
• 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 E of Belmont Crescent
• Length of medieval town wall, sally port and interval tower
• Town wall section W of Belmont Crescent
• The Burgs
• Moated site and fishponds 150m north of Attingham Home Farm
• Shrewsbury Abbey (including pulpit)
• Moated site, ridge and furrow cultivation remains and a building platform immediately north of Lower Grounds
• Site discovered by aerial photography
• Abutment of Roman bridge at Radnor Bridge
• Churchyard cross SW of St Giles Church
• Cross dyke and hut platform on the summit of The Lawley, 100m south west of OS trig pillar.