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.

The area around Horsehay boasts some of the best towns including Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford.

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

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

Horsehay has some unmissable ruins nearby like Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

Horsehay is near some unmissable villages like Acton Burnell,

There are a several good historic buildings in the area around Horsehay like Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell.

Telford Centre is one of Horsehay's best, nearby shopping centres to visit in Horsehay.

Horsehay History

There are some historic monuments around Horsehay:

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