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

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

Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle are some of Leighton best castles to visit near Leighton.

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

There are a several good villages in the area around Leighton like Acton Burnell.

Historic Buildings to visit near Leighton include Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell.

Shopping Centres to visit near Leighton include Telford Centre.

Leighton History

There are some historic monuments around Leighton:

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