Shawbury is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Retail in Shawbury

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

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

River Clun is one of Shawbury's best, nearby rivers and streams to visit in Shawbury.

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

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

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

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

Shopping Centres to visit near Shawbury include Telford Centre.

Shawbury History

There are some historic monuments around Shawbury:

• Moated site and field system 380m south of Moat Farm, Wollerton Wood
• Dovecote 300m south of Hodnet Hall
• Red Castle: an enclosure castle in Hawkstone Park
• Shrewsbury Abbey (including pulpit)
• Remains of the crypt or undercroft to the Old Church of St Chad
• Haughmond Abbey: an Augustinian monastery on the site of an earlier religious foundation, a post-Dissolution residence and garden remains
• Soulton moated site and formal garden remains
• Moated site 140m east of St Mary's Church
• Slight univallate hillfort and a World War II vehicle testing station on the summit of Ebury Hill, 550m west of Haughton Farm
• Canal aqueduct over River Tern
• Shrewsbury Castle
• Moated site and fishpond 450m north west of Hunkington
• Medieval cross in St Martin's churchyard, Preston Gubbals
• Site discovered by aerial photography
• Moreton Corbet Castle
• Moated site and fishponds 150m north of Attingham Home Farm
• Slight univallate hillfort, an 18th century folly and a World War II spigot mortar emplacement, on the summit of Haughmond Hill
• The Mount: a motte castle 200m west of Weston Farm
• Northwood Hall double moated site
• Medieval fishpond reservoir NE of Haughmond Abbey and SW of the hamlet of Haughton
• Bury Walls: a large multivallate hillfort
• Moated site and associated ridge and furrow cultivation remains, 145m south of St Mary Magdalene's Church
• Standing cross in the churchyard of St Michael and All Angels' Church, High Ercall
• Town wall section E of Belmont Crescent
• Animal pound 140m north west of Riverside, Wollerton
• Moated site, ridge and furrow cultivation remains and a building platform immediately north of Lower Grounds
• Length of medieval town wall, sally port and interval tower
• Harlescott Grange moated site
• Motte and bailey castle on Castle Hill, and the associated remains of a park pale, a fishpond and a formal garden
• Moated site 500m south east of Creamore Cottage
• Churchyard cross SW of St Giles Church
• Moated site and a fishpond 160m and 280m south of The Farm, Charlton
• Wem Castle: a motte castle immediately south west of St Peter and St Paul's Church
• College of St Mary Magdalene at Battlefield
• Queen Eleanor's Bower: a ringwork, 710m north east of Bridge Farm
• Edge Runner Mill (site of)