Stapleton is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Stapleton postcode: SY5 7EH

Retail in Stapleton

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

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

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

Stapleton's best nearby castles can be found at Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

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

There are a several good villages in the area around Stapleton like Acton Burnell.

There are a several good historic buildings in the area around Stapleton like Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell.

Stapleton is near some unmissable shopping centres like Telford Centre,

Stapleton History

There are some historic monuments around Stapleton:

• Abutment of Roman bridge at Radnor Bridge
• Shrewsbury Castle
• Town wall section W of Belmont Crescent
• Castle Bank motte and bailey castle, 150m north west of Woolstaston Hall.
• Length of medieval town wall, sally port and interval tower
• Bowl barrow, 540m east of Wildmoor Pool.
• Cross-dyke at Devil's Mouth, west of Burway Hill
• Acton Burnell Castle, a moated site with chamber block and tithe barn
• Motte and bailey castle 150m south west of Wilderley Hall
• Slight univallate hillfort, an 18th century folly and a World War II spigot mortar emplacement, on the summit of Haughmond Hill
• Cross-dyke on Ratlinghope Hill, 740m north of Brow Farm
• Remains of tower in Victoria Avenue
• Castle Pulverbatch motte and bailey castle with outer bailey, 100m NNW of Brook Cottage
• Moated site 400m north west of Whitley Grange
• Churchyard cross SW of St Giles Church
• Moated site and an associated field system 240m south of Panson Farm
• Bowl barrow on Robin's Tump, 600m south west of Hill House
• Moat Farm moated site
• Bowl barrow on The Long Mynd, 100m north-east of Boiling Well.
• Bowl barrow 500m south-east of Duckley Nap.
• Enclosure on Haddon Hill, 360m north-west of The Batch
• Bowl barrow 640m north west of Lower Darnford
• Hilltop enclosure and hut circle on the northern end of The Lawley, 250m north of Blackhurst Farm
• Roman villa 150yds (140m) SE of Lea Hall
• Caer Caradoc large multivallate hillfort, associated causeway and Caractacus' Cave on the summit of Caer Caradoc Hill
• Bowl barrow on The Long Mynd, 180m west of the site of Pole Cottage.
• Remains of the crypt or undercroft to the Old Church of St Chad
• Moated site, fishponds and ridge and furrow cultivation remains, 260m south west of Betton Alkmere
• Shrewsbury Abbey (including pulpit)
• Castle Ring: a slight univallate hillfort on Stitt Hill, 450m south east of Stitt Cottages
• Roman villa at Cruckton
• Cross dyke and hut platform on the summit of The Lawley, 100m south west of OS trig pillar.
• Pontesford Hill Camp: a small multivallate hillfort
• Bowl barrow on The Long Mynd, 500m east-south-east of Boiling Well.
• Earthwork E of Bank Farm
• Bowl barrow on Cothercott Hill, 420m east of New Leasowes Farm.
• Castle motte 50m south east of St John the Baptist's Church.
• Cross-dyke, field bank, ridge and furrow and hut structures 400m south of High Park House
• Enclosure and building platform on Nover's Hill, 250m east of Cwmdale Farm
• The Burgs
• Ratlinghope Hill camp: a slight univallate hillfort, 600m north east of Brow Farm
• Round cairn on Calf Ridge, 800m east of The Shooting Box
• Bowl barrow 200m north-west of Wildmoor Pool.
• Bowl barrow 320m north east of Upper Darnford
• Bowl barrow on summit of Bodbury Hill, 100m north-east of Bodbury Ring
• Nag's Head engine house, 230m north of Home Farm
• Castle Hill, 150m north west of St Michael and All Angels Church
• Bodbury Ring: a large univallate hillfort on the summit of Bodbury Hill.
• Moat House moated site and an associated fishpond
• Queen Eleanor's Bower: a ringwork, 710m north east of Bridge Farm
• Bowl barrow and a section of boundary bank at Henley Nap
• Iron Age settlement site in Bomere Wood
• Enclosed Iron Age farmstead on Wilderley Hill, 470m north west of Sallins Cottage
• Earl's Hill Camp: a small multivallate hillfort and an adjacent cross dyke on Pontesford Hill
• Motte and bailey castle 50m to the west of St Michael's church.
• Bowl barrow on Plush Hill, 120m north west of Jinlye
• Bowl barrow on Wildmoor, 200m north-east of the Shooting Box.
• Shooters Hut disc barrow, 1500m south-west of Duckley Nap.
• Moated site, ridge and furrow cultivation remains, a post-medieval formal garden and pond bays 600m south east of Court Farm, Gretton
• Town wall section E of Belmont Crescent
• Bowl barrow and section of boundary bank on Duckley Nap, 500m east of Wildmoor Pool.