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.

Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford are some of Cound best towns to visit near Cound.

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

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

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

Cound is near some unmissable villages like Acton Burnell,

Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell is one of Cound's best, nearby historic buildings to visit in Cound.

Places near Cound feature a number of interesting shopping centres including Telford Centre.

Cound History

There are some historic monuments around Cound:

• Site discovered by aerial photography
• Wroxeter Roman fort
• Churchyard cross SW of St Giles Church
• Slight univallate hillfort, an 18th century folly and a World War II spigot mortar emplacement, on the summit of Haughmond Hill
• Iron Age settlement site in Bomere Wood
• Queen Eleanor's Bower: a ringwork, 710m north east of Bridge Farm
• Moated site, ridge and furrow cultivation remains, a post-medieval formal garden and pond bays 600m south east of Court Farm, Gretton
• Moated site, ridge and furrow cultivation remains and a building platform immediately north of Lower Grounds
• Langley Hall moated site and Langley Chapel
• Moated site and fishponds 150m north of Attingham Home Farm
• Shrewsbury Castle
• Moated site and an associated raised earthen platform 510m north of Mill Farm
• Moat House moated site and an associated fishpond
• Remains of the crypt or undercroft to the Old Church of St Chad
• Harlescott Grange moated site
• Moated site and fishpond 450m north west of Hunkington
• The Burgs
• Moated site, fishponds and ridge and furrow cultivation remains, 260m south west of Betton Alkmere
• Moated site and a fishpond 160m and 280m south of The Farm, Charlton
• Town wall section W of Belmont Crescent
• Canal aqueduct over River Tern
• Acton Burnell Castle, a moated site with chamber block and tithe barn
• Town wall section E of Belmont Crescent
• Abutment of Roman bridge at Radnor Bridge
• Cross dyke and hut platform on the summit of The Lawley, 100m south west of OS trig pillar.
• Haughmond Abbey: an Augustinian monastery on the site of an earlier religious foundation, a post-Dissolution residence and garden remains
• Hilltop enclosure and hut circle on the northern end of The Lawley, 250m north of Blackhurst Farm
• Length of medieval town wall, sally port and interval tower
• Site of Roman town of Wroxeter (Viroconium)
• Shrewsbury Abbey (including pulpit)
• Medieval fishpond reservoir NE of Haughmond Abbey and SW of the hamlet of Haughton
• Roman villa NE of Cottage Coppice