Yorton is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Yorton postcode: SY4 3EP

Retail in Yorton

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

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

There are a number of rivers and streams near to Yorton including River Clun.

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

Yorton has some unmissable ruins nearby like Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

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

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

There are a number of shopping centres near to Yorton including Telford Centre.

Yorton History

There are some historic monuments around Yorton:

• Myddle Castle immediately south of Castle Farm
• Moated site 320m north east of Petton parish church
• Harlescott Grange moated site
• Sundial in parish churchyard
• Slight univallate hillfort, an 18th century folly and a World War II spigot mortar emplacement, on the summit of Haughmond Hill
• Red Castle: an enclosure castle in Hawkstone Park
• Starks Lift Bridge at Windmill Lane
• Moated site 480m east of Yeaton Peverey Farm
• Shrewsbury Castle
• Moated site and fishpond 450m north west of Hunkington
• Medieval cross in St Martin's churchyard, Preston Gubbals
• College of St Mary Magdalene at Battlefield
• Medieval fishpond reservoir NE of Haughmond Abbey and SW of the hamlet of Haughton
• Wem Castle: a motte castle immediately south west of St Peter and St Paul's Church
• Soulton moated site and formal garden remains
• Slight univallate hillfort and a World War II vehicle testing station on the summit of Ebury Hill, 550m west of Haughton Farm
• Moated site and associated ridge and furrow cultivation remains, 145m south of St Mary Magdalene's Church
• Moreton Corbet Castle
• Bowl barrow 60m south east of Petton parish church
• Northwood Hall double moated site
• Moated site, prospect mound and fishponds adjacent to Isle Farm
• Moated site 140m east of St Mary's Church
• Queen Eleanor's Bower: a ringwork, 710m north east of Bridge Farm
• Moated site 500m south east of Creamore Cottage
• Haughmond Abbey: an Augustinian monastery on the site of an earlier religious foundation, a post-Dissolution residence and garden remains
• The Mount: a motte castle 200m west of Weston Farm
• Lighteach moated site and associated water management features