Upton Magna is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Retail in Upton Magna

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

Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford are some of Upton Magna best towns to visit near Upton Magna.

Places near Upton Magna feature a number of interesting rivers and streams including River Clun.

Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle are great places to visit near Upton Magna if you like castles.

The area around Upton Magna boasts some of the best ruins including Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

Acton Burnell is a great place to visit close to Upton Magna if you like villages.

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

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

Upton Magna History

There are some historic monuments around Upton Magna:

• Haughmond Abbey: an Augustinian monastery on the site of an earlier religious foundation, a post-Dissolution residence and garden remains
• Queen Eleanor's Bower: a ringwork, 710m north east of Bridge Farm
• Moated site, ridge and furrow cultivation remains and a building platform immediately north of Lower Grounds
• Moated site 140m east of St Mary's Church
• Iron Age settlement site in Bomere Wood
• Shrewsbury Castle
• Standing cross in the churchyard of St Michael and All Angels' Church, High Ercall
• Town wall section E of Belmont Crescent
• Length of medieval town wall, sally port and interval tower
• Wroxeter Roman fort
• Acton Burnell Castle, a moated site with chamber block and tithe barn
• Slight univallate hillfort and a World War II vehicle testing station on the summit of Ebury Hill, 550m west of Haughton Farm
• Moated site and fishponds 150m north of Attingham Home Farm
• Remains of the crypt or undercroft to the Old Church of St Chad
• Site discovered by aerial photography
• Canal aqueduct over River Tern
• Medieval fishpond reservoir NE of Haughmond Abbey and SW of the hamlet of Haughton
• Moreton Corbet Castle
• College of St Mary Magdalene at Battlefield
• Medieval cross in St Martin's churchyard, Preston Gubbals
• Harlescott Grange moated site
• Churchyard cross SW of St Giles Church
• Shrewsbury Abbey (including pulpit)
• Slight univallate hillfort, an 18th century folly and a World War II spigot mortar emplacement, on the summit of Haughmond Hill
• Moated site and an associated raised earthen platform 510m north of Mill Farm
• Moated site and fishpond 450m north west of Hunkington
• Moated site, fishponds and ridge and furrow cultivation remains, 260m south west of Betton Alkmere
• The Burgs
• Site of Roman town of Wroxeter (Viroconium)
• Remains of tower in Victoria Avenue
• Town wall section W of Belmont Crescent
• Moated site and associated ridge and furrow cultivation remains, 145m south of St Mary Magdalene's Church
• Moated site and a fishpond 160m and 280m south of The Farm, Charlton
• Abutment of Roman bridge at Radnor Bridge