Wroxeter is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Wroxeter postcode: SY5 6PH

Retail in Wroxeter

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

The area around Wroxeter boasts some of the best towns including Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford.

There are a several good rivers and streams in the area around Wroxeter like River Clun.

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

Wroxeter has some unmissable ruins nearby like Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

The area close to Wroxeter boasts some of the best villages including Acton Burnell.

Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell is one of Wroxeter's best, nearby historic buildings to visit in Wroxeter.

Places near Wroxeter feature a number of interesting shopping centres including Telford Centre.

Wroxeter History

There are some historic monuments around Wroxeter:

• Iron Age settlement site in Bomere Wood
• Roman villa NE of Cottage Coppice
• Moated site, fishponds and ridge and furrow cultivation remains, 260m south west of Betton Alkmere
• Harlescott Grange moated site
• Medieval cross in Holy Trinity churchyard
• Slight univallate hillfort, an 18th century folly and a World War II spigot mortar emplacement, on the summit of Haughmond Hill
• Langley Hall moated site and Langley Chapel
• Shrewsbury Abbey (including pulpit)
• Moated site and a fishpond 160m and 280m south of The Farm, Charlton
• Abutment of Roman bridge at Radnor Bridge
• Wrekin Rifle Range
• Haughmond Abbey: an Augustinian monastery on the site of an earlier religious foundation, a post-Dissolution residence and garden remains
• Site discovered by aerial photography
• Canal aqueduct over River Tern
• Wenlock Priory
• Acton Burnell Castle, a moated site with chamber block and tithe barn
• Moated site at Whitwell
• Moated site and fishpond 450m north west of Hunkington
• Queen Eleanor's Bower: a ringwork, 710m north east of Bridge Farm
• College of St Mary Magdalene at Battlefield
• 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 and an associated raised earthen platform 510m north of Mill Farm
• Churchyard cross SW of St Giles Church
• Medieval fishpond reservoir NE of Haughmond Abbey and SW of the hamlet of Haughton
• Hilltop enclosure and hut circle on the northern end of The Lawley, 250m north of Blackhurst Farm
• Wroxeter Roman fort
• Standing cross in the churchyard of St Michael and All Angels' Church, High Ercall
• Large multivallate and univallate hillforts, a round barrow, a Late Bronze Age settlement and WWII military remains, on The Wrekin
• 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