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 boasts some of the best towns including Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford.

River Clun is one of Ironbridge's best, nearby rivers and streams to visit in Ironbridge.

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

Ruins to visit near Ironbridge include Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

Acton Burnell is a great place to visit close to Ironbridge if you like villages.

Places near Ironbridge feature a number of interesting 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:

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