Wroxeter is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Wroxeter postcode: SY5 6PH

Retail in Wroxeter

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

Wroxeter's best nearby towns can be found at Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford.

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

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

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

Villages to visit near Wroxeter include Acton Burnell.

Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell is a great place to visit close to Wroxeter if you like historic buildings.

Telford Centre is one of Wroxeter's best, nearby shopping centres to visit in Wroxeter.

Wroxeter History

There are some historic monuments around Wroxeter:

• Wroxeter Roman fort
• Slight univallate hillfort and a World War II vehicle testing station on the summit of Ebury Hill, 550m west of Haughton Farm
• Hilltop enclosure and hut circle on the northern end of The Lawley, 250m north of Blackhurst Farm
• Harlescott Grange moated site
• Canal aqueduct over River Tern
• Site of Roman town of Wroxeter (Viroconium)
• Medieval fishpond reservoir NE of Haughmond Abbey and SW of the hamlet of Haughton
• Wrekin Rifle Range
• Moated site at Whitwell
• Roman villa NE of Cottage Coppice
• Queen Eleanor's Bower: a ringwork, 710m north east of Bridge Farm
• Large multivallate and univallate hillforts, a round barrow, a Late Bronze Age settlement and WWII military remains, on The Wrekin
• Site discovered by aerial photography
• Wenlock Priory
• Shrewsbury Abbey (including pulpit)
• Abutment of Roman bridge at Radnor Bridge
• Churchyard cross SW of St Giles Church
• Moated site, fishponds and ridge and furrow cultivation remains, 260m south west of Betton Alkmere
• Haughmond Abbey: an Augustinian monastery on the site of an earlier religious foundation, a post-Dissolution residence and garden remains
• Moated site and an associated raised earthen platform 510m north of Mill Farm
• Moated site and a fishpond 160m and 280m south of The Farm, Charlton
• Moated site, ridge and furrow cultivation remains and a building platform immediately north of Lower Grounds
• Langley Hall moated site and Langley Chapel
• College of St Mary Magdalene at Battlefield
• Moated site and fishpond 450m north west of Hunkington
• Medieval cross in Holy Trinity churchyard
• Standing cross in the churchyard of St Michael and All Angels' Church, High Ercall
• Acton Burnell Castle, a moated site with chamber block and tithe barn
• Iron Age settlement site in Bomere Wood
• Slight univallate hillfort, an 18th century folly and a World War II spigot mortar emplacement, on the summit of Haughmond Hill
• Moated site and fishponds 150m north of Attingham Home Farm