Betton Abbots is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Betton Abbots in Shropshire is located 5.0 km SE from Shrewsbury.

Betton Abbots postcode: SY5 6JD

Retail in Betton Abbots

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

Don't miss Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford's towns if visiting the area around Betton Abbots.

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

There are a number of castles near Betton Abbots including Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

There are a number of ruins near Betton Abbots including Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

Don't miss Acton Burnell's villages if visiting the area around Betton Abbots.

The area around Betton Abbots's best historic buildings can be found at Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell.

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

Betton Abbots History

There are some historic monuments around Betton Abbots:

• Length of medieval town wall, sally port and interval tower
• Cross dyke and hut platform on the summit of The Lawley, 100m south west of OS trig pillar.
• Moated site, prospect mound and fishponds adjacent to Isle Farm
• Iron Age settlement site in Bomere Wood
• Abutment of Roman bridge at Radnor Bridge
• Moated site and fishponds 150m north of Attingham Home Farm
• Acton Burnell Castle, a moated site with chamber block and tithe barn
• Medieval fishpond reservoir NE of Haughmond Abbey and SW of the hamlet of Haughton
• Site discovered by aerial photography
• Town wall section W of Belmont Crescent
• Moated site, fishponds and ridge and furrow cultivation remains, 260m south west of Betton Alkmere
• Town wall section E of Belmont Crescent
• Remains of the crypt or undercroft to the Old Church of St Chad
• Motte and bailey castle 50m to the west of St Michael's church.
• Slight univallate hillfort, an 18th century folly and a World War II spigot mortar emplacement, on the summit of Haughmond Hill
• Queen Eleanor's Bower: a ringwork, 710m north east of Bridge Farm
• Shrewsbury Castle
• Castle Bank motte and bailey castle, 150m north west of Woolstaston Hall.
• Wroxeter Roman fort
• Moated site and fishpond 450m north west of Hunkington
• College of St Mary Magdalene at Battlefield
• Remains of tower in Victoria Avenue
• Harlescott Grange moated site
• Slight univallate hillfort and a World War II vehicle testing station on the summit of Ebury Hill, 550m west of Haughton Farm
• Earthwork E of Bank Farm
• Langley Hall moated site and Langley Chapel
• Castle motte 50m south east of St John the Baptist's Church.
• Churchyard cross SW of St Giles Church
• Shrewsbury Abbey (including pulpit)
• Moat Farm moated site
• The Burgs
• Site of Roman town of Wroxeter (Viroconium)
• Moat House moated site and an associated fishpond
• 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
• Haughmond Abbey: an Augustinian monastery on the site of an earlier religious foundation, a post-Dissolution residence and garden remains