Cound Stanks is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Cound Stanks postcode: SY5 6EP

Retail in Cound Stanks

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

Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford are great places to visit near Cound Stanks if you like towns.

River Clun is a great place to visit close to Cound Stanks if you like rivers and streams.

The area around Cound Stanks features a number of interesting castles including Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

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

There are a number of villages near to Cound Stanks including Acton Burnell.

Places near Cound Stanks feature a number of interesting historic buildings including Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell.

Shopping Centres to visit near Cound Stanks include Telford Centre.

Cound Stanks History

There are some historic monuments around Cound Stanks:

• Moated site, ridge and furrow cultivation remains and a building platform immediately north of Lower Grounds
• Town wall section W of Belmont Crescent
• The Burgs
• Shrewsbury Abbey (including pulpit)
• Moated site and a fishpond 160m and 280m south of The Farm, Charlton
• Moated site, ridge and furrow cultivation remains, a post-medieval formal garden and pond bays 600m south east of Court Farm, Gretton
• Wroxeter Roman fort
• Moat House moated site and an associated fishpond
• Remains of the crypt or undercroft to the Old Church of St Chad
• Moated site and an associated raised earthen platform 510m north of Mill Farm
• Town wall section E of Belmont Crescent
• Langley Hall moated site and Langley Chapel
• Churchyard cross SW of St Giles Church
• Haughmond Abbey: an Augustinian monastery on the site of an earlier religious foundation, a post-Dissolution residence and garden remains
• Slight univallate hillfort, an 18th century folly and a World War II spigot mortar emplacement, on the summit of Haughmond Hill
• Site discovered by aerial photography
• Remains of tower in Victoria Avenue
• Moated site and fishpond 450m north west of Hunkington
• Moated site, fishponds and ridge and furrow cultivation remains, 260m south west of Betton Alkmere
• Roman villa NE of Cottage Coppice
• Slight univallate hillfort and a World War II vehicle testing station on the summit of Ebury Hill, 550m west of Haughton Farm
• Medieval fishpond reservoir NE of Haughmond Abbey and SW of the hamlet of Haughton
• Iron Age settlement site in Bomere Wood
• Bowl barrow on Robin's Tump, 600m south west of Hill House
• Site of Roman town of Wroxeter (Viroconium)
• Hilltop enclosure and hut circle on the northern end of The Lawley, 250m north of Blackhurst Farm
• Abutment of Roman bridge at Radnor Bridge
• Moated site and fishponds 150m north of Attingham Home Farm
• Harlescott Grange moated site
• Queen Eleanor's Bower: a ringwork, 710m north east of Bridge Farm
• Cross dyke and hut platform on the summit of The Lawley, 100m south west of OS trig pillar.
• Shrewsbury Castle
• Acton Burnell Castle, a moated site with chamber block and tithe barn
• Length of medieval town wall, sally port and interval tower