Pitchford is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Pitchford postcode: SY5 7DW

Retail in Pitchford

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

Pitchford's best nearby towns can be found at Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford.

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

Castles to visit near Pitchford include Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

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

Places near Pitchford feature a number of interesting villages including Acton Burnell.

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

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

Pitchford History

There are some historic monuments around Pitchford:

• Queen Eleanor's Bower: a ringwork, 710m north east of Bridge Farm
• Acton Burnell Castle, a moated site with chamber block and tithe barn
• Town wall section E of Belmont Crescent
• Shrewsbury Castle
• Moated site and fishponds 150m north of Attingham Home Farm
• Site discovered by aerial photography
• Motte and bailey castle 200m east of Brockton Farm
• Churchyard cross SW of St Giles Church
• Site of Roman town of Wroxeter (Viroconium)
• Bowl barrow on Robin's Tump, 600m south west of Hill House
• Remains of tower in Victoria Avenue
• Length of medieval town wall, sally port and interval tower
• Caer Caradoc large multivallate hillfort, associated causeway and Caractacus' Cave on the summit of Caer Caradoc Hill
• Wroxeter Roman fort
• Iron Age settlement site in Bomere Wood
• Earthwork E of Bank Farm
• Shrewsbury Abbey (including pulpit)
• Castle motte 50m south east of St John the Baptist's Church.
• The Burgs
• Town wall section W of Belmont Crescent
• Abutment of Roman bridge at Radnor Bridge
• Moated site and fishpond 450m north west of Hunkington
• Moated site, fishponds and ridge and furrow cultivation remains, 260m south west of Betton Alkmere
• Cross dyke and hut platform on the summit of The Lawley, 100m south west of OS trig pillar.
• Langley Hall moated site and Langley Chapel
• Moat House moated site and an associated fishpond
• The Ditches (or Larden Ditches) in Mogg Forest
• Hilltop enclosure and hut circle on the northern end of The Lawley, 250m north of Blackhurst Farm
• Remains of the crypt or undercroft to the Old Church of St Chad
• Moated site, ridge and furrow cultivation remains, a post-medieval formal garden and pond bays 600m south east of Court Farm, Gretton
• Moated site and a fishpond 160m and 280m south of The Farm, Charlton
• Slight univallate hillfort, an 18th century folly and a World War II spigot mortar emplacement, on the summit of Haughmond Hill