Cantlop is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Cantlop postcode: SY5 7DG

Retail in Cantlop

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

The area around Cantlop features a number of interesting towns including Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford.

Cantlop is near some unmissable rivers and streams like River Clun,

Cantlop's best nearby castles can be found at Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle are some of Cantlop best ruins to visit near Cantlop.

Cantlop is near some unmissable villages like Acton Burnell,

There are a several good historic buildings in the area around Cantlop like Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell.

Cantlop is near some unmissable shopping centres like Telford Centre,

Cantlop History

There are some historic monuments around Cantlop:

• Haughmond Abbey: an Augustinian monastery on the site of an earlier religious foundation, a post-Dissolution residence and garden remains
• Churchyard cross SW of St Giles Church
• Abutment of Roman bridge at Radnor Bridge
• Acton Burnell Castle, a moated site with chamber block and tithe barn
• Moat Farm moated site
• Langley Hall moated site and Langley Chapel
• Castle motte 50m south east of St John the Baptist's Church.
• Remains of the crypt or undercroft to the Old Church of St Chad
• Wroxeter Roman fort
• 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
• Shrewsbury Abbey (including pulpit)
• Enclosure and building platform on Nover's Hill, 250m east of Cwmdale Farm
• Queen Eleanor's Bower: a ringwork, 710m north east of Bridge Farm
• Bowl barrow on Robin's Tump, 600m south west of Hill House
• Slight univallate hillfort and a World War II vehicle testing station on the summit of Ebury Hill, 550m west of Haughton Farm
• Site of Roman town of Wroxeter (Viroconium)
• Moated site, ridge and furrow cultivation remains, a post-medieval formal garden and pond bays 600m south east of Court Farm, Gretton
• Harlescott Grange moated site
• Bowl barrow on Plush Hill, 120m north west of Jinlye
• Town wall section E of Belmont Crescent
• Hilltop enclosure and hut circle on the northern end of The Lawley, 250m north of Blackhurst Farm
• Shrewsbury Castle
• Caer Caradoc large multivallate hillfort, associated causeway and Caractacus' Cave on the summit of Caer Caradoc Hill
• Iron Age settlement site in Bomere Wood
• 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
• Moated site and fishponds 150m north of Attingham Home Farm
• Site discovered by aerial photography
• Earthwork E of Bank Farm
• Length of medieval town wall, sally port and interval tower
• Medieval fishpond reservoir NE of Haughmond Abbey and SW of the hamlet of Haughton
• Town wall section W of Belmont Crescent
• Moated site and fishpond 450m north west of Hunkington
• Castle Hill, 150m north west of St Michael and All Angels Church
• Moated site, fishponds and ridge and furrow cultivation remains, 260m south west of Betton Alkmere
• Remains of tower in Victoria Avenue
• The Burgs
• Moated site 400m north west of Whitley Grange