Horsehay is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Retail in Horsehay

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

Towns to visit near Horsehay include Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford.

There are a several good rivers and streams in the area around Horsehay like River Clun.

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

Don't miss Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle's ruins if visiting the area around Horsehay.

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

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

Shopping Centres to visit near Horsehay include Telford Centre.

Horsehay History

There are some historic monuments around Horsehay:

• Medieval cross in Holy Trinity churchyard
• St Leonard's Priory immediately adjacent to the Church of St Mary and St Leonard, Wombridge
• Part of a small Roman town, the Roman road called Watling Street and a mansio 255m north west of Upper Woodhouse Farm
• Buildwas Abbey
• Canal aqueduct over River Tern
• Old Park Farm moated site
• Moated site at Whitwell
• Coalport Inclined Plane
• The Iron Bridge
• Wall Camp in the Weald Moors: a large low-lying multivallate hillfort
• Coal mining remains 350m north west and 520m north of New Works village
• Large multivallate and univallate hillforts, a round barrow, a Late Bronze Age settlement and WWII military remains, on The Wrekin
• Headgear at Grange colliery, 240m north west of Watling Street Grange
• Lilleshall Beam Blowing Engines
• Parts of a Roman camp and signal station 410m ESE of Watling Street Grange
• Site of pumping engine at Muxton Bridge colliery
• Coalport Bridge
• Group of round barrows at Willowmoor
• Darby Ironworks, Coalbrookdale (furnaces, forehearths and blowing house areas)
• Wappenshall canal bridge, Shropshire Union Canal
• New Willey Ironworks
• Wrekin Rifle Range
• Roman villa NE of Cottage Coppice
• Churchyard of St James's Church
• Blists Hill Iron Furnaces
• Wenlock Priory
• Moated site and an associated raised earthen platform 510m north of Mill Farm
• Bedlam Furnaces