Hopton Castle is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Retail in Hopton Castle

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

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

Rivers and Streams to visit near Hopton Castle include River Clun.

Hopton Castle has some unmissable castles nearby like Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

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

Acton Burnell is one of Hopton Castle's best, nearby villages to visit in Hopton Castle.

The area close to Hopton Castle boasts some of the best historic buildings including Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell.

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

Hopton Castle History

There are some historic monuments around Hopton Castle:

• Motte castle and associated settlement remains 150m NNW of Lower Down Farm
• Hopton Castle tower keep castle with outer bailey 150m north west of Park Cottage
• Motte castle 178m WSW of Walford Bridge
• Ringwork 90m south east of Plowden Mill
• Stanage Mound & Bailey Castle
• Bowl barrow 150m north west of Hollybrook
• Roman camp 1100yds (1010m) E of Brampton Bryan parish church
• Motte castle and ice house 30m south of The Old Farm
• Bowl barrow on Acton Bank, 170m north of Acton House
• Ring cairn on the summit of Pen-y-wern Hill
• Multiple enclosure hillfort on Coxall Knoll
• Castle Farm moat and associated water management features, Cheney Longville
• Post-medieval house and gardens at Willey Court, 450m south east of Willey House
• Slight univallate hillfort 80m east of Old Downton Cottage.
• Cheney Longville ringwork
• Roman station of Bravinium
• Wigmore Castle
• Clun Castle: a motte and bailey castle and formal garden earthworks
• Mound 1200yds (1100m) NNE of the Church
• Brampton Bryan castle
• Bowl barrow 100m north west of Purslow Hall
• Bowl barrow 120m south west of Belair
• Enclosed Iron Age farmstead 700m west of Horderley Farm
• Long Wood Camp
• Bowl barrow 60m west of Ambleside
• Recumbent standing stone on Pen-y-wern Hill, 150m south east of a ring cairn
• Motte and bailey castle and bishops' palace
• Brandon Camp large univallate hillfort and ring ditch 350m north east of Warwick House.
• Tower keep castle at Lower Lea
• Bury Ditches, a small multivallate hillfort on the summit of Sunnyhill
• Norton Mound And Bailey Castle
• Caer Caradoc: a small multivallate hillfort
• Settlement W of Buckton
• Wigmore Abbey
• Bowl barrow 460m west of Walford Farm
• Clungunford motte castle 90m north east of St Cuthbert's Church
• Ringwork on Warfield Bank 500m south east of Park Cottage
• Church of St Giles, Downton on the Rock
• Colstey Bank Iron Age enclosure
• Downton motte, a motte castle 100m north west of St Giles' Church
• Bowl barrow 390m south east of Stanley Cottage
• Upper Barn moat
• Roman fort
• Roman temporary camp S of Walford Bridge
• Radnor Wood Camp
• Motte castle 510m east of Broadward Hall
• Churchyard cross in St Cuthbert's churchyard
• Coston Manor moat
• Castle Ditches: an enclosed settlement on Bedstone Hill
• Motte castle at Colebatch, 100m north of Lagden
• Jay Lane Roman fort
• Motte castle at Upper Buckton
• Roman fort NE of Buckton
• Roman site NW of Brandon Villa
• Lingen Castle
• Billings Ring large univallate hillfort
• Small multivallate hillfort at Burrow, 750m WSW of St Mary's Church