Upton Magna is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Retail in Upton Magna

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

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

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

Upton Magna has some unmissable castles nearby like Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

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

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

The area close to Upton Magna boasts some of the best historic buildings including Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell.

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

Upton Magna History

There are some historic monuments around Upton Magna:

• Length of medieval town wall, sally port and interval tower
• Slight univallate hillfort, an 18th century folly and a World War II spigot mortar emplacement, on the summit of Haughmond Hill
• Churchyard cross SW of St Giles Church
• Moated site and fishponds 150m north of Attingham Home Farm
• Site discovered by aerial photography
• Town wall section W of Belmont Crescent
• Medieval cross in St Martin's churchyard, Preston Gubbals
• Medieval fishpond reservoir NE of Haughmond Abbey and SW of the hamlet of Haughton
• Remains of the crypt or undercroft to the Old Church of St Chad
• Moated site and associated ridge and furrow cultivation remains, 145m south of St Mary Magdalene's Church
• Abutment of Roman bridge at Radnor Bridge
• Moreton Corbet Castle
• Haughmond Abbey: an Augustinian monastery on the site of an earlier religious foundation, a post-Dissolution residence and garden remains
• Harlescott Grange moated site
• Moated site and fishpond 450m north west of Hunkington
• College of St Mary Magdalene at Battlefield
• Standing cross in the churchyard of St Michael and All Angels' Church, High Ercall
• Shrewsbury Abbey (including pulpit)
• Wroxeter Roman fort
• Moated site, fishponds and ridge and furrow cultivation remains, 260m south west of Betton Alkmere
• Iron Age settlement site in Bomere Wood
• Site of Roman town of Wroxeter (Viroconium)
• Town wall section E of Belmont Crescent
• Canal aqueduct over River Tern
• The Burgs
• Moated site and a fishpond 160m and 280m south of The Farm, Charlton
• Shrewsbury Castle
• Moated site 140m east of St Mary's Church
• Acton Burnell Castle, a moated site with chamber block and tithe barn
• Moated site, ridge and furrow cultivation remains and a building platform immediately north of Lower Grounds
• Slight univallate hillfort and a World War II vehicle testing station on the summit of Ebury Hill, 550m west of Haughton Farm
• Queen Eleanor's Bower: a ringwork, 710m north east of Bridge Farm
• Remains of tower in Victoria Avenue
• Moated site and an associated raised earthen platform 510m north of Mill Farm