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.

Towns to visit near Cantlop include Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford.

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

Castles to visit near Cantlop include Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

The area around Cantlop boasts some of the best ruins including Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

The area around Cantlop's best villages can be found at Acton Burnell.

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

Telford Centre is one of Cantlop's best, nearby shopping centres to visit in Cantlop.

Cantlop History

There are some historic monuments around Cantlop:

• Moated site 400m north west of Whitley Grange
• Earthwork E of Bank Farm
• Iron Age settlement site in Bomere Wood
• Site discovered by aerial photography
• Town wall section E of Belmont Crescent
• Moated site, ridge and furrow cultivation remains, a post-medieval formal garden and pond bays 600m south east of Court Farm, Gretton
• Bowl barrow on Robin's Tump, 600m south west of Hill House
• Castle motte 50m south east of St John the Baptist's Church.
• Enclosure and building platform on Nover's Hill, 250m east of Cwmdale Farm
• Length of medieval town wall, sally port and interval tower
• Moat Farm moated site
• Langley Hall moated site and Langley Chapel
• Bowl barrow on Plush Hill, 120m north west of Jinlye
• Abutment of Roman bridge at Radnor Bridge
• Castle Hill, 150m north west of St Michael and All Angels Church
• Queen Eleanor's Bower: a ringwork, 710m north east of Bridge Farm
• Moat House moated site and an associated fishpond
• The Burgs
• Slight univallate hillfort, an 18th century folly and a World War II spigot mortar emplacement, on the summit of Haughmond Hill
• Acton Burnell Castle, a moated site with chamber block and tithe barn
• Cross dyke and hut platform on the summit of The Lawley, 100m south west of OS trig pillar.
• Remains of tower in Victoria Avenue
• Moated site and fishpond 450m north west of Hunkington
• Town wall section W of Belmont Crescent
• Moated site and fishponds 150m north of Attingham Home Farm
• Churchyard cross SW of St Giles Church
• Shrewsbury Abbey (including pulpit)
• Caer Caradoc large multivallate hillfort, associated causeway and Caractacus' Cave on the summit of Caer Caradoc Hill
• Wroxeter Roman fort
• Slight univallate hillfort and a World War II vehicle testing station on the summit of Ebury Hill, 550m west of Haughton Farm
• Hilltop enclosure and hut circle on the northern end of The Lawley, 250m north of Blackhurst Farm
• Moated site, fishponds and ridge and furrow cultivation remains, 260m south west of Betton Alkmere
• Shrewsbury Castle
• Site of Roman town of Wroxeter (Viroconium)
• Harlescott Grange moated site
• Medieval fishpond reservoir NE of Haughmond Abbey and SW of the hamlet of Haughton
• Haughmond Abbey: an Augustinian monastery on the site of an earlier religious foundation, a post-Dissolution residence and garden remains
• Remains of the crypt or undercroft to the Old Church of St Chad
• Moated site, prospect mound and fishponds adjacent to Isle Farm