Leighton is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Leighton postcode: SY5 6RN

Retail in Leighton

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

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

Don't miss River Clun's rivers and streams if visiting the area around Leighton.

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

Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle are great places to visit near Leighton if you like ruins.

Places near Leighton feature a number of interesting villages including Acton Burnell.

Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell is a great place to visit close to Leighton if you like historic buildings.

There are a several good shopping centres in the area around Leighton like Telford Centre.

Leighton History

There are some historic monuments around Leighton:

• Moated site and fishpond 450m north west of Hunkington
• Large multivallate and univallate hillforts, a round barrow, a Late Bronze Age settlement and WWII military remains, on The Wrekin
• Moated site, ridge and furrow cultivation remains and a building platform immediately north of Lower Grounds
• Bedlam Furnaces
• Medieval cross in Holy Trinity churchyard
• Canal aqueduct over River Tern
• Wroxeter Roman fort
• Darby Ironworks, Coalbrookdale (furnaces, forehearths and blowing house areas)
• Moated site and a fishpond 160m and 280m south of The Farm, Charlton
• Site of Roman town of Wroxeter (Viroconium)
• New Willey Ironworks
• Wrekin Rifle Range
• Roman villa NE of Cottage Coppice
• Buildwas Abbey
• Wenlock Priory
• Wappenshall canal bridge, Shropshire Union Canal
• Moated site at Whitwell
• Group of round barrows at Willowmoor
• Moated site and an associated raised earthen platform 510m north of Mill Farm
• Site discovered by aerial photography
• The Iron Bridge
• Coal mining remains 350m north west and 520m north of New Works village
• Medieval fishpond reservoir NE of Haughmond Abbey and SW of the hamlet of Haughton