Ironbridge is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Retail in Ironbridge

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

The area around Ironbridge features a number of interesting towns including Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford.

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

There are a number of castles near Ironbridge including Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

Ironbridge's best nearby ruins can be found at Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

Ironbridge is near some unmissable villages like Acton Burnell,

The area close to Ironbridge boasts some of the best historic buildings including Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell.

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

Ironbridge History

There are some historic monuments around Ironbridge:

• Roman villa NE of Cottage Coppice
• Old Park Farm moated site
• Panpudding Hill: a ringwork and bailey castle 100m south of Bridgnorth Station
• St Leonard's Priory immediately adjacent to the Church of St Mary and St Leonard, Wombridge
• Parts of a Roman camp and signal station 410m ESE of Watling Street Grange
• Bridgnorth Castle
• New Willey Ironworks
• Coal mining remains 350m north west and 520m north of New Works village
• Buildwas Abbey
• Large multivallate and univallate hillforts, a round barrow, a Late Bronze Age settlement and WWII military remains, on The Wrekin
• Moated site at Whitwell
• Medieval Settlement, south-east of Upton Cressett Hall
• Moated site and associated ponds
• Site of pumping engine at Muxton Bridge colliery
• Lilleshall Abbey
• Coalport Bridge
• Part of a small Roman town, the Roman road called Watling Street and a mansio 255m north west of Upper Woodhouse Farm
• Wappenshall canal bridge, Shropshire Union Canal
• The Iron Bridge
• Coalport Inclined Plane
• Wrekin Rifle Range
• Bedlam Furnaces
• Headgear at Grange colliery, 240m north west of Watling Street Grange
• Darby Ironworks, Coalbrookdale (furnaces, forehearths and blowing house areas)
• Medieval cross in St Gregory's churchyard
• Medieval cross in Holy Trinity churchyard
• Wenlock Priory
• The Hermitage
• Blists Hill Iron Furnaces
• Lilleshall Beam Blowing Engines
• Group of round barrows at Willowmoor
• Roman Settlement, 390m north-east of New House Farm
• Moated site and an associated raised earthen platform 510m north of Mill Farm
• Churchyard of St James's Church