Cound is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Cound postcode: SY5 6AP

Retail in Cound

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

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

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

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

Cound's best nearby ruins can be found at Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

Cound is near some unmissable villages like Acton Burnell,

There are a number of historic buildings near to Cound including Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell.

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

Cound History

There are some historic monuments around Cound:

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