Muxton is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Retail in Muxton

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

Muxton has some unmissable towns nearby like Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford.

There are a number of rivers and streams near to Muxton including River Clun.

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

The area around Muxton features a number of interesting ruins including Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

Muxton is near some unmissable villages like Acton Burnell,

Muxton is near some unmissable historic buildings like Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell,

Telford Centre is a great place to visit close to Muxton if you like shopping centres.

Muxton History

There are some historic monuments around Muxton:

• Blists Hill Iron Furnaces
• Parts of a Roman camp and signal station 410m ESE of Watling Street Grange
• Canal aqueduct
• Roving bridge and lock called Newport Lock 255m south east of Wrekin View Farm
• Wappenshall canal bridge, Shropshire Union Canal
• Lilleshall Beam Blowing Engines
• Lilleshall Abbey
• Site of pumping engine at Muxton Bridge colliery
• Churchyard of St James's Church
• The Iron Bridge
• Part of a small Roman town, the Roman road called Watling Street and a mansio 255m north west of Upper Woodhouse Farm
• Roman fort 300m east of Drayton Lodge Farm
• Bedlam Furnaces
• Coal mining remains 350m north west and 520m north of New Works village
• Enclosed Iron Age farmstead immediately adjacent to The Croft, Pave Lane
• Quarry canal bridge
• Roman camps SW of Stoneyford Cottages
• St Leonard's Priory immediately adjacent to the Church of St Mary and St Leonard, Wombridge
• Butter Cross or Pulestone Cross, on the south west side of the market place
• Darby Ironworks, Coalbrookdale (furnaces, forehearths and blowing house areas)
• Headgear at Grange colliery, 240m north west of Watling Street Grange
• Wall Camp in the Weald Moors: a large low-lying multivallate hillfort