Bankshead is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Bankshead postcode: SY9 5JQ

Retail in Bankshead

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

River Clun is one of Bankshead's best, nearby rivers and streams to visit in Bankshead.

Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle are some of Bankshead best castles to visit near Bankshead.

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

Places near Bankshead feature a number of interesting villages including Acton Burnell.

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

Bankshead is near some unmissable shopping centres like Telford Centre,

Bankshead History

There are some historic monuments around Bankshead:

• Round cairn on Stiperstones, 350m SSW of the Devil's Chair
• Motte and bailey castle 80m south east of Hockleton Farm
• Mitchell's Fold stone circle, standing stone and cairn 280m south west of Mitchell's Fold
• Ringwork and cultivation remains 260m west of St Michael's Church
• Caerbre
• Bowl barrow 390m south east of Stanley Cottage
• Mellington Hill Round Barrow
• Slight univallate hillfort 600m north of Roveries House
• Engine house at Ladywell lead mine, 850m north west of Shelve Farm
• Offa's Dyke: section 1/2 mile (800m) long, SE from county boundary to River Unk Also in Powys: Wales
• Ring cairn on the summit of Pen-y-wern Hill
• Roveries Hill Camp slight univallate hillfort 400m north east of The Roveries
• Hoarstone stone circle and two round cairns 400m north west of Holly Cottage
• Round cairn 38m NE of OS triangulation pillar on Manstone Rock
• Small enclosed settlement in Knuck Wood
• Three Roman camps NW of Brompton Mill including tumulus and section of Offa's Dyke
• Motte castle adjacent to The Mount cottage
• Bury Ditches, a small multivallate hillfort on the summit of Sunnyhill
• Bowl barrow on Acton Bank, 170m north of Acton House
• Offa's Dyke: section 400m south west of Springhill Farm
• Pentre Camp
• Bowl barrow 500m north of The Oak Farm
• Offa's Dyke: section one mile 750yds (2290m) from Dudston Covert to a point 300yds (274m) N of Lack Brook Also in Powys: Wales
• Roundton Hillfort
• Dovecote at Chirbury Hall Farm
• Moated site and fishponds 250m south west of Middleton Farm
• Castle Ring: a large univallate hillfort, 600m south east of Meadowtown Farm
• Caer-Din Ring: a small enclosed Iron Age or Romano-British settlement, an adjacent ancient field boundary, round barrow and cultivation remains
• Caer-Din
• Motte and bailey castle with associated remains of a medieval village and ridge and furrow cultivation, 200m west of St Peter's Church
• Bicton Ditches
• Bicton motte and bailey castle
• Offa's Dyke: section 730m south east of The Yew Tree
• Bowl barrow on Round Hill, 200m west of The Napp
• Offa's Dyke: Section from Dudston Covert, Lymore to Lack Brook, Churchstoke
• Round cairn on Stiperstones, 150m south of Manstone Rock.
• Bishop's Moat Mound & Bailey Castle
• Motte and bailey castle and bishops' palace
• Motte castle 400m north east of Upper Gwarthlow Farm
• Motte castle at Colebatch, 100m north of Lagden
• Corndon Hill Round Cairns
• Offa's Dyke: section 400m east of Cwm Farm
• Bowl barrow 610m south west of Springhill Cottage
• Round Barrow on Saddle to E of Corndon Hill
• Roman Gravels lead mine
• Colstey Bank Iron Age enclosure
• Hardwick castle motte and bailey castle 140m WSW of Hardwick Hall
• Ritton Castle: a slight univallate hillfort and a ringwork and bailey castle
• Linley Hill Camp
• Motte castle at the south end of East Dudston hamlet
• Offa's Dyke: section 175m east of Cefn Bronydd
• Site S of Bagbury (revealed by aerial photography)
• Bowl barrow 320m south of Pitcholds
• Small enclosed Iron Age or Romano-British settlement and adjacent cultivation remains, 450m north west of Cwm Farm
• Tankerville lead mine
• Small enclosed settlement on Fron, 340m west of St John's Church
• Settlement remains of Blakemoorflat
• Offa's Dyke: section 575m north west of Myndtown
• Motte and bailey castle and line of Offa's Dyke adjacent to Brompton Mill
• Bowl barrow 100m north west of Purslow Hall
• Offa's Dyke: section NW of Ditches Farm Also in Powys: Wales
• Radnor Wood Camp
• Billings Ring large univallate hillfort
• Offa's Dyke: section 1600yds (1460m) long, N from St John the Baptist's Church to River Unk
• Bowl barrow on Hergan Hill, 530m north west of Myndtown
• Standing stone 350yds (320m) SE of Whitcott Keysett
• Offa's Dyke: Section from Road Junction near Drewin to County Boundary
• Upper Aldress Moated Site
• Offa's Dyke: Mellington Hall Section Extending from Mellington Hall Lodge to Lower Cwm
• Offa's Dyke: section 430m north east of Middle Knuck Farm
• Hyssington Mound & Bailey Castle
• Offa's Dyke: Cwm Section
• Simon's Castle
• Tower keep castle at Lower Lea
• Round barrow S of Linley Hall
• Round cairn south of Cranberry Rock, 460m north east of Bog Cottage
• Bowl barrow at The Napp
• Calcot Camp
• Motte castle 100m north of Wotherton Hall
• Castle Ring: a large univallate hillfort on Oak Hill, 600m south east of Crows Nest Farm
• Small enclosed settlement on Castle Idris, 400m south west of Penrhiew Lodge
• Roman villa at Linley Hall
• Motte and bailey castle 100m west of Holy Trinity Church
• Tor cairn on Stiperstones, 130m SSE of Manstone Rock.
• Offa's Dyke; Brompton Bridge section extending from Brompton Bridge to Mellington Hall Lodge
• Motte castle and associated settlement remains 150m NNW of Lower Down Farm
• Clun Castle: a motte and bailey castle and formal garden earthworks
• Bowl barrow at Eaton Farm