Yorton is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Yorton postcode: SY4 3EP

Retail in Yorton

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

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

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

There are a number of castles near Yorton including Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

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

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

Don't miss Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell's historic buildings if visiting the area around Yorton.

There are a several good shopping centres in the area around Yorton like Telford Centre.

Yorton History

There are some historic monuments around Yorton:

• 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
• Medieval cross in St Martin's churchyard, Preston Gubbals
• Soulton moated site and formal garden remains
• Northwood Hall double moated site
• Myddle Castle immediately south of Castle Farm
• Medieval fishpond reservoir NE of Haughmond Abbey and SW of the hamlet of Haughton
• Lighteach moated site and associated water management features
• Moreton Corbet Castle
• Red Castle: an enclosure castle in Hawkstone Park
• Shrewsbury Castle
• Sundial in parish churchyard
• Starks Lift Bridge at Windmill Lane
• The Mount: a motte castle 200m west of Weston Farm
• Bowl barrow 60m south east of Petton parish church
• Moated site 480m east of Yeaton Peverey Farm
• Moated site, prospect mound and fishponds adjacent to Isle Farm
• Harlescott Grange moated site
• Slight univallate hillfort, an 18th century folly and a World War II spigot mortar emplacement, on the summit of Haughmond Hill
• College of St Mary Magdalene at Battlefield
• Moated site and fishpond 450m north west of Hunkington
• Moated site 500m south east of Creamore Cottage
• Moated site 140m east of St Mary's Church
• Moated site and associated ridge and furrow cultivation remains, 145m south of St Mary Magdalene's Church
• Slight univallate hillfort and a World War II vehicle testing station on the summit of Ebury Hill, 550m west of Haughton Farm
• Wem Castle: a motte castle immediately south west of St Peter and St Paul's Church
• Moated site 320m north east of Petton parish church