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.

Rivers and Streams to visit near Cound include River Clun.

Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle are some of Cound best castles to visit near Cound.

The area around Cound boasts some of the best ruins including Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

Places near Cound feature a number of interesting villages including Acton Burnell.

The area around Cound's best historic buildings can be found at Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell.

The area around Cound's best shopping centres can be found at Telford Centre.

Cound History

There are some historic monuments around Cound:

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