Leighton is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Leighton postcode: SY5 6RN

Retail in Leighton

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

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

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

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

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

Villages to visit near Leighton include Acton Burnell.

Places near Leighton feature a number of interesting historic buildings including Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell.

The area around Leighton's best shopping centres can be found at Telford Centre.

Leighton History

There are some historic monuments around Leighton:

• Moated site and a fishpond 160m and 280m south of The Farm, Charlton
• Group of round barrows at Willowmoor
• Wappenshall canal bridge, Shropshire Union Canal
• Canal aqueduct over River Tern
• Moated site at Whitwell
• Moated site and an associated raised earthen platform 510m north of Mill Farm
• Coal mining remains 350m north west and 520m north of New Works village
• Site of Roman town of Wroxeter (Viroconium)
• Roman villa NE of Cottage Coppice
• Moated site, ridge and furrow cultivation remains and a building platform immediately north of Lower Grounds
• Large multivallate and univallate hillforts, a round barrow, a Late Bronze Age settlement and WWII military remains, on The Wrekin
• Medieval cross in Holy Trinity churchyard
• New Willey Ironworks
• Wenlock Priory
• The Iron Bridge
• Buildwas Abbey
• Site discovered by aerial photography
• Darby Ironworks, Coalbrookdale (furnaces, forehearths and blowing house areas)
• Moated site and fishpond 450m north west of Hunkington
• Wroxeter Roman fort
• Bedlam Furnaces
• Medieval fishpond reservoir NE of Haughmond Abbey and SW of the hamlet of Haughton
• Wrekin Rifle Range