Newport is a Town in the county of Shropshire.

Newport postcode: TF10 7AG

Retail in Newport

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

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

The area close to Newport boasts some of the best rivers and streams including River Clun.

The area around Newport features a number of interesting castles including Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

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

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

Places near Newport feature a number of interesting historic buildings including Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell.

The area close to Newport boasts some of the best shopping centres including Telford Centre.

Newport History

There are some historic monuments around Newport:

• Cheswardine Castle and an associated linear bank
• Canal aqueduct
• Part of a small Roman town, the Roman road called Watling Street and a mansio 255m north west of Upper Woodhouse Farm
• Castle Hill motte and bailey castle
• Wall Camp in the Weald Moors: a large low-lying multivallate hillfort
• Site of pumping engine at Muxton Bridge colliery
• Roman camps SW of Stoneyford Cottages
• Parts of a Roman camp and signal station 410m ESE of Watling Street Grange
• Quarry canal bridge
• Norbury Manor moated site, 8 fishponds and connecting channels
• Moated site 80m west of Blymhill Grange
• Lilleshall Abbey
• Headgear at Grange colliery, 240m north west of Watling Street Grange
• Bowl barrow on The Roundabout
• Roving bridge and lock called Newport Lock 255m south east of Wrekin View Farm
• Butter Cross or Pulestone Cross, on the south west side of the market place
• Enclosed Iron Age farmstead immediately adjacent to The Croft, Pave Lane
• St Leonard's Priory immediately adjacent to the Church of St Mary and St Leonard, Wombridge
• Roman fort 300m east of Drayton Lodge Farm