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.

Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford are great places to visit near Muxton if you like towns.

The area around Muxton's best rivers and streams can be found at River Clun.

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

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

There are a number of villages near to Muxton including Acton Burnell.

The area around Muxton's best historic buildings can be found at Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell.

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

Muxton History

There are some historic monuments around Muxton:

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