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.

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

Don't miss River Clun's rivers and streams if visiting the area around Yorton.

Castles to visit near Yorton include Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

Don't miss Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle's ruins if visiting the area around Yorton.

Yorton is near some unmissable villages like 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:

• Soulton moated site and formal garden remains
• Myddle Castle immediately south of Castle Farm
• Moated site 140m east of St Mary's Church
• Shrewsbury Castle
• Lighteach moated site and associated water management features
• Slight univallate hillfort, an 18th century folly and a World War II spigot mortar emplacement, on the summit of Haughmond Hill
• Moated site and associated ridge and furrow cultivation remains, 145m south of St Mary Magdalene's Church
• Medieval fishpond reservoir NE of Haughmond Abbey and SW of the hamlet of Haughton
• Moated site 500m south east of Creamore Cottage
• Moated site and fishpond 450m north west of Hunkington
• College of St Mary Magdalene at Battlefield
• Queen Eleanor's Bower: a ringwork, 710m north east of Bridge Farm
• Sundial in parish churchyard
• Slight univallate hillfort and a World War II vehicle testing station on the summit of Ebury Hill, 550m west of Haughton Farm
• Moated site 480m east of Yeaton Peverey Farm
• The Mount: a motte castle 200m west of Weston Farm
• Bowl barrow 60m south east of Petton parish church
• Harlescott Grange moated site
• Northwood Hall double moated site
• Medieval cross in St Martin's churchyard, Preston Gubbals
• Moated site 320m north east of Petton parish church
• Wem Castle: a motte castle immediately south west of St Peter and St Paul's Church
• Moated site, prospect mound and fishponds adjacent to Isle Farm
• Red Castle: an enclosure castle in Hawkstone Park
• Haughmond Abbey: an Augustinian monastery on the site of an earlier religious foundation, a post-Dissolution residence and garden remains
• Moreton Corbet Castle
• Starks Lift Bridge at Windmill Lane