Betton Abbots is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

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.

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

The area around Betton Abbots'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 Betton Abbots.

There are a several good ruins in the Betton Abbots area like Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

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

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

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:

• Iron Age settlement site in Bomere Wood
• Castle motte 50m south east of St John the Baptist's Church.
• Shrewsbury Castle
• Churchyard cross SW of St Giles Church
• Slight univallate hillfort, an 18th century folly and a World War II spigot mortar emplacement, on the summit of Haughmond Hill
• Moat House moated site and an associated fishpond
• Queen Eleanor's Bower: a ringwork, 710m north east of Bridge Farm
• Moated site, prospect mound and fishponds adjacent to Isle Farm
• Harlescott Grange moated site
• Moated site, fishponds and ridge and furrow cultivation remains, 260m south west of Betton Alkmere
• Length of medieval town wall, sally port and interval tower
• Moated site and fishponds 150m north of Attingham Home Farm
• Acton Burnell Castle, a moated site with chamber block and tithe barn
• Town wall section W of Belmont Crescent
• Moated site and fishpond 450m north west of Hunkington
• Castle Bank motte and bailey castle, 150m north west of Woolstaston Hall.
• Site discovered by aerial photography
• Hilltop enclosure and hut circle on the northern end of The Lawley, 250m north of Blackhurst Farm
• Langley Hall moated site and Langley Chapel
• Abutment of Roman bridge at Radnor Bridge
• 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
• Moat Farm moated site
• Wroxeter Roman fort
• Remains of tower in Victoria Avenue
• Motte and bailey castle 50m to the west of St Michael's church.
• Haughmond Abbey: an Augustinian monastery on the site of an earlier religious foundation, a post-Dissolution residence and garden remains
• College of St Mary Magdalene at Battlefield
• Shrewsbury Abbey (including pulpit)
• Remains of the crypt or undercroft to the Old Church of St Chad
• The Burgs
• Medieval fishpond reservoir NE of Haughmond Abbey and SW of the hamlet of Haughton
• Moated site 400m north west of Whitley Grange
• Cross dyke and hut platform on the summit of The Lawley, 100m south west of OS trig pillar.
• Site of Roman town of Wroxeter (Viroconium)
• Town wall section E of Belmont Crescent