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.

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

The area around Upton Magna's best rivers and streams can be found at River Clun.

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

Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle are great places to visit near Upton Magna if you like ruins.

The area around Upton Magna's best villages can be found at Acton Burnell.

Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell is one of Upton Magna's best, nearby historic buildings to visit in Upton Magna.

The area close to Upton Magna boasts some of the best shopping centres including Telford Centre.

Upton Magna History

There are some historic monuments around Upton Magna:

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