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.

Places near Leighton feature a number of interesting rivers and streams including River Clun.

Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle are some of Leighton best castles to visit near Leighton.

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

Leighton is near some unmissable villages like Acton Burnell,

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

There are a several good shopping centres in the area around Leighton like Telford Centre.

Leighton History

There are some historic monuments around Leighton:

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