Cound Stanks is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Cound Stanks postcode: SY5 6EP

Retail in Cound Stanks

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

Cound Stanks has some unmissable towns nearby like Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford.

River Clun is a great place to visit close to Cound Stanks if you like rivers and streams.

The area around Cound Stanks boasts some of the best castles including Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

Ruins to visit near Cound Stanks include Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

There are a number of villages near to Cound Stanks including Acton Burnell.

Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell is one of Cound Stanks's best, nearby historic buildings to visit in Cound Stanks.

Don't miss Telford Centre's shopping centres if visiting the area around Cound Stanks.

Cound Stanks History

There are some historic monuments around Cound Stanks:

• Queen Eleanor's Bower: a ringwork, 710m north east of Bridge Farm
• Hilltop enclosure and hut circle on the northern end of The Lawley, 250m north of Blackhurst Farm
• Shrewsbury Abbey (including pulpit)
• Bowl barrow on Robin's Tump, 600m south west of Hill House
• Iron Age settlement site in Bomere Wood
• Harlescott Grange moated site
• Haughmond Abbey: an Augustinian monastery on the site of an earlier religious foundation, a post-Dissolution residence and garden remains
• Roman villa NE of Cottage Coppice
• Remains of the crypt or undercroft to the Old Church of St Chad
• Slight univallate hillfort, an 18th century folly and a World War II spigot mortar emplacement, on the summit of Haughmond Hill
• Town wall section W of Belmont Crescent
• Moat House moated site and an associated fishpond
• The Burgs
• Length of medieval town wall, sally port and interval tower
• Shrewsbury Castle
• Remains of tower in Victoria Avenue
• Site discovered by aerial photography
• Churchyard cross SW of St Giles Church
• Moated site and a fishpond 160m and 280m south of The Farm, Charlton
• Site of Roman town of Wroxeter (Viroconium)
• Cross dyke and hut platform on the summit of The Lawley, 100m south west of OS trig pillar.
• 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
• Moated site, ridge and furrow cultivation remains, a post-medieval formal garden and pond bays 600m south east of Court Farm, Gretton
• Medieval fishpond reservoir NE of Haughmond Abbey and SW of the hamlet of Haughton
• Moated site and fishpond 450m north west of Hunkington
• Moated site, fishponds and ridge and furrow cultivation remains, 260m south west of Betton Alkmere
• Abutment of Roman bridge at Radnor Bridge
• Acton Burnell Castle, a moated site with chamber block and tithe barn
• Langley Hall moated site and Langley Chapel
• Moated site, ridge and furrow cultivation remains and a building platform immediately north of Lower Grounds
• Moated site and an associated raised earthen platform 510m north of Mill Farm
• Moated site and fishponds 150m north of Attingham Home Farm
• Town wall section E of Belmont Crescent