Buildwas is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Buildwas postcode: TF8 7DA

Retail in Buildwas

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

Buildwas's best nearby towns can be found at Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford.

Rivers and Streams to visit near Buildwas include River Clun.

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

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

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

Places near Buildwas feature a number of interesting historic buildings including Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell.

Telford Centre is a great place to visit close to Buildwas if you like shopping centres.

Buildwas History

There are some historic monuments around Buildwas:

• Group of round barrows at Willowmoor
• Large multivallate and univallate hillforts, a round barrow, a Late Bronze Age settlement and WWII military remains, on The Wrekin
• Wrekin Rifle Range
• Lilleshall Beam Blowing Engines
• Wenlock Priory
• Moated site and a fishpond 160m and 280m south of The Farm, Charlton
• Moated site at Whitwell
• Blists Hill Iron Furnaces
• Coalport Inclined Plane
• Coal mining remains 350m north west and 520m north of New Works village
• Medieval cross in St Gregory's churchyard
• Moated site and an associated raised earthen platform 510m north of Mill Farm
• Canal aqueduct over River Tern
• Moated site, ridge and furrow cultivation remains and a building platform immediately north of Lower Grounds
• The Iron Bridge
• Wappenshall canal bridge, Shropshire Union Canal
• Coalport Bridge
• St Leonard's Priory immediately adjacent to the Church of St Mary and St Leonard, Wombridge
• Churchyard of St James's Church
• New Willey Ironworks
• Bedlam Furnaces
• Medieval cross in Holy Trinity churchyard
• Darby Ironworks, Coalbrookdale (furnaces, forehearths and blowing house areas)
• Buildwas Abbey
• Roman villa NE of Cottage Coppice