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.

Don't miss Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford's towns if visiting the area around Great Ryton.

Rivers and Streams to visit near Great Ryton include River Clun.

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

Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle are great places to visit near Great Ryton if you like ruins.

Great Ryton is near some unmissable villages like Acton Burnell,

Historic Buildings to visit near Great Ryton include Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell.

There are a number of shopping centres near to Great Ryton including Telford Centre.

Great Ryton History

There are some historic monuments around Great Ryton:

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