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.

Towns to visit near Cound Stanks include Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford.

Don't miss River Clun's rivers and streams if visiting the area around Cound Stanks.

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

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

Acton Burnell is a great place to visit close to Cound Stanks if you like villages.

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