Muxton is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Retail in Muxton

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

Don't miss Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford's towns if visiting the area around Muxton.

There are a number of rivers and streams near to Muxton including River Clun.

The area around Muxton 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 Muxton if you like ruins.

Muxton is near some unmissable villages like Acton Burnell,

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

Muxton is near some unmissable shopping centres like Telford Centre,

Muxton History

There are some historic monuments around Muxton:

• Butter Cross or Pulestone Cross, on the south west side of the market place
• Quarry canal bridge
• Darby Ironworks, Coalbrookdale (furnaces, forehearths and blowing house areas)
• Part of a small Roman town, the Roman road called Watling Street and a mansio 255m north west of Upper Woodhouse Farm
• Lilleshall Abbey
• Bedlam Furnaces
• Headgear at Grange colliery, 240m north west of Watling Street Grange
• The Iron Bridge
• Canal aqueduct
• Parts of a Roman camp and signal station 410m ESE of Watling Street Grange
• Site of pumping engine at Muxton Bridge colliery
• Roman camps SW of Stoneyford Cottages
• Lilleshall Beam Blowing Engines
• Churchyard of St James's Church
• Enclosed Iron Age farmstead immediately adjacent to The Croft, Pave Lane
• Wall Camp in the Weald Moors: a large low-lying multivallate hillfort
• St Leonard's Priory immediately adjacent to the Church of St Mary and St Leonard, Wombridge
• Roving bridge and lock called Newport Lock 255m south east of Wrekin View Farm
• Roman fort 300m east of Drayton Lodge Farm
• Coal mining remains 350m north west and 520m north of New Works village
• Blists Hill Iron Furnaces
• Wappenshall canal bridge, Shropshire Union Canal