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

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

The area around Wroxeter features a number of interesting castles including Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

Don't miss Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle's ruins if visiting the area around 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.

There are a several good shopping centres in the area around Wroxeter like Telford Centre.

Wroxeter History

There are some historic monuments around Wroxeter:

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