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.

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

There are a several good rivers and streams in the area around Shawbury like River Clun.

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

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

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

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

There are a number of shopping centres near to Shawbury including Telford Centre.

Shawbury History

There are some historic monuments around Shawbury:

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