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.

Places near Upton Magna feature a number of interesting rivers and streams including River Clun.

There are a number of castles near Upton Magna including Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

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

Acton Burnell is a great place to visit close to Upton Magna if you like villages.

Don't miss Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell's historic buildings if visiting the area around Upton Magna.

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

Upton Magna History

There are some historic monuments around Upton Magna:

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