Astley is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Retail in Astley

There are great places to visit near Astley 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 Astley if you like towns.

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

Astley has some unmissable castles nearby like Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

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

Acton Burnell is a great place to visit close to Astley if you like villages.

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

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

Astley History

There are some historic monuments around Astley:

• Length of medieval town wall, sally port and interval tower
• Moated site and fishpond 450m north west of Hunkington
• 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
• Edge Runner Mill (site of)
• The Burgs
• Bury Walls: a large multivallate hillfort
• Town wall section W of Belmont Crescent
• Standing cross in the churchyard of St Michael and All Angels' Church, High Ercall
• Remains of tower in Victoria Avenue
• Medieval cross in St Martin's churchyard, Preston Gubbals
• Myddle Castle immediately south of Castle Farm
• Shrewsbury Abbey (including pulpit)
• Shrewsbury Castle
• Wem Castle: a motte castle immediately south west of St Peter and St Paul's Church
• Medieval fishpond reservoir NE of Haughmond Abbey and SW of the hamlet of Haughton
• Churchyard cross SW of St Giles Church
• Site discovered by aerial photography
• Moated site and fishponds 150m north of Attingham Home Farm
• 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
• Harlescott Grange moated site
• Moated site, ridge and furrow cultivation remains and a building platform immediately north of Lower Grounds
• Town wall section E of Belmont Crescent
• College of St Mary Magdalene at Battlefield
• Iron Age settlement site in Bomere Wood
• 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
• Remains of the crypt or undercroft to the Old Church of St Chad
• 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
• Moated site 140m east of St Mary's Church
• Red Castle: an enclosure castle in Hawkstone Park
• Moreton Corbet Castle
• Site of Roman town of Wroxeter (Viroconium)