Annscroft is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Annscroft postcode: SY5 8AY

Retail in Annscroft

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

Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford are great places to visit near Annscroft if you like towns.

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

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

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

There are a number of villages near to Annscroft including Acton Burnell.

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

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

Annscroft History

There are some historic monuments around Annscroft:

• The Burgs
• Harlescott Grange moated site
• Moat House moated site and an associated fishpond
• Ringwork and tower keep castle 170m south east of St George's Church
• Town wall section W of Belmont Crescent
• College of St Mary Magdalene at Battlefield
• Earthwork E of Bank Farm
• Shrewsbury Abbey (including pulpit)
• Castle Pulverbatch motte and bailey castle with outer bailey, 100m NNW of Brook Cottage
• Bowl barrow and a section of boundary bank at Henley Nap
• Cross-dyke, field bank, ridge and furrow and hut structures 400m south of High Park House
• Castle Bank motte and bailey castle, 150m north west of Woolstaston Hall.
• Pontesford Hill Camp: a small multivallate hillfort
• Roman villa 150yds (140m) SE of Lea Hall
• Moated site, fishponds and ridge and furrow cultivation remains, 260m south west of Betton Alkmere
• Shrewsbury Castle
• Length of medieval town wall, sally port and interval tower
• Churchyard cross SW of St Giles Church
• Nag's Head engine house, 230m north of Home Farm
• Shrawardine castle and settlement remains
• Motte castle 250m west of Yockleton Hall
• Bowl barrow 320m north east of Upper Darnford
• Bowl barrow 640m north west of Lower Darnford
• Castle Ring: a slight univallate hillfort on Stitt Hill, 450m south east of Stitt Cottages
• Castle motte 50m south east of St John the Baptist's Church.
• Motte and bailey castle 50m to the west of St Michael's church.
• Moat Farm moated site
• The Ring, an animal pound 100m west of Nills Farm
• Earl's Hill Camp: a small multivallate hillfort and an adjacent cross dyke on Pontesford Hill
• Moated site, prospect mound and fishponds adjacent to Isle Farm
• Churchyard cross, St Andrew's Church
• Enclosed Iron Age farmstead on Wilderley Hill, 470m north west of Sallins Cottage
• Ratlinghope Hill camp: a slight univallate hillfort, 600m north east of Brow Farm
• Roman villa at Cruckton
• Cross-dyke on Ratlinghope Hill, 740m north of Brow Farm
• Remains of tower in Victoria Avenue
• Bowl barrow on Cothercott Hill, 420m east of New Leasowes Farm.
• Remains of the crypt or undercroft to the Old Church of St Chad
• Iron Age settlement site in Bomere Wood
• Cross dyke and hut platform on the summit of The Lawley, 100m south west of OS trig pillar.
• Little Shrawardine motte and bailey castle
• Motte and bailey castle 150m south west of Wilderley Hall
• Town wall section E of Belmont Crescent
• Moated site and an associated field system 240m south of Panson Farm
• Moated site 400m north west of Whitley Grange
• Hilltop enclosure and hut circle on the northern end of The Lawley, 250m north of Blackhurst Farm