Great Ryton is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Great Ryton postcode: SY5 7LP

Retail in Great Ryton

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

Towns to visit near Great Ryton include Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford.

Great Ryton is near some unmissable rivers and streams like River Clun,

The area around Great Ryton boasts some of the best castles including Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle are some of Great Ryton best ruins to visit near Great Ryton.

Great Ryton is near some unmissable villages like Acton Burnell,

There are a number of historic buildings near to Great Ryton including Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell.

Don't miss Telford Centre's shopping centres if visiting the area around Great Ryton.

Great Ryton History

There are some historic monuments around Great Ryton:

• Cross-dyke on Barrister's Plain, 800m south east of Narnell's Rock
• Bowl barrow on Robin's Tump, 600m south west of Hill House
• 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
• Caer Caradoc large multivallate hillfort, associated causeway and Caractacus' Cave on the summit of Caer Caradoc Hill
• Site discovered by aerial photography
• Bowl barrow on summit of Bodbury Hill, 100m north-east of Bodbury Ring
• Motte and bailey castle 150m south west of Wilderley Hall
• Bowl barrow 200m north-west of Wildmoor Pool.
• Bowl barrow on The Long Mynd, 100m north-east of Boiling Well.
• Motte and bailey castle 50m to the west of St Michael's church.
• Slight univallate hillfort, an 18th century folly and a World War II spigot mortar emplacement, on the summit of Haughmond Hill
• Castle Bank motte and bailey castle, 150m north west of Woolstaston Hall.
• Bodbury Ring: a large univallate hillfort on the summit of Bodbury Hill.
• Moated site and fishponds 150m north of Attingham Home Farm
• Acton Burnell Castle, a moated site with chamber block and tithe barn
• Churchyard cross SW of St Giles Church
• Cross-dyke at Devil's Mouth, west of Burway Hill
• Enclosed Iron Age farmstead on Wilderley Hill, 470m north west of Sallins Cottage
• Iron Age settlement site in Bomere Wood
• Bowl barrow on Ashlet Hill, 800m WSW of Longmynd Hotel
• Bowl barrow and section of boundary bank on Duckley Nap, 500m east of Wildmoor Pool.
• Round cairn on Calf Ridge, 800m east of The Shooting Box
• Bowl barrow 500m south-east of Duckley Nap.
• Length of medieval town wall, sally port and interval tower
• Moated site 400m north west of Whitley Grange
• The Burgs
• Bowl barrow on Plush Hill, 120m north west of Jinlye
• Cross dyke and hut platform on the summit of The Lawley, 100m south west of OS trig pillar.
• Remains of the crypt or undercroft to the Old Church of St Chad
• Enclosure on Haddon Hill, 360m north-west of The Batch
• Shooters Hut disc barrow, 1500m south-west of Duckley Nap.
• Bowl barrow on Wildmoor, 200m north-east of the Shooting Box.
• Brockhurst Castle: a tower keep castle and causeway, 200m south of Brockhurst
• Bowl barrow, 540m east of Wildmoor Pool.
• Enclosure and building platform on Nover's Hill, 250m east of Cwmdale Farm
• Earthwork E of Bank Farm
• Cross-dyke, field bank, ridge and furrow and hut structures 400m south of High Park House
• Moat House moated site and an associated fishpond
• Moated site, fishponds and ridge and furrow cultivation remains, 260m south west of Betton Alkmere
• Moat Farm moated site
• Abutment of Roman bridge at Radnor Bridge
• Hilltop enclosure and hut circle on the northern end of The Lawley, 250m north of Blackhurst Farm
• Castle Hill, 150m north west of St Michael and All Angels Church
• Castle Pulverbatch motte and bailey castle with outer bailey, 100m NNW of Brook Cottage
• Roman villa at Cruckton
• Bowl barrow and a section of boundary bank at Henley Nap
• Castle motte 50m south east of St John the Baptist's Church.
• Bowl barrow on The Long Mynd, 500m east-south-east of Boiling Well.
• Bowl barrow 320m north east of Upper Darnford
• Town wall section W of Belmont Crescent
• Shrewsbury Abbey (including pulpit)
• Langley Hall moated site and Langley Chapel
• Queen Eleanor's Bower: a ringwork, 710m north east of Bridge Farm
• Moated site and an associated field system 240m south of Panson Farm
• Shrewsbury Castle
• Remains of tower in Victoria Avenue