Acton Bank
Acton Bank is a castle in Lydbury North, Shropshire, England. Acton Bank is situated nearby to the village Colebatch, as well as near the hamlet Cefn Einion.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Bury Ditches and Church of St John the Baptist.
Bury Ditches
Archaeological site
Photo: Mattbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bury Ditches is a British Iron Age hill fort between Clun and Bishop's Castle in the Shropshire Hills of central England. Bury Ditches is situated 1 mile southeast of Acton Bank.
Church of St John the Baptist
Church
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St John the Baptist is situated 2 miles north of Acton Bank.
Church of St Michael and All Angels
Church
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Michael and All Angels is situated 2½ miles east of Acton Bank.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Colebatch and Cefn Einion.
Colebatch
Village
Photo: David Long, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Colebatch is a small village and civil parish in southwest Shropshire, England. The population of the Civil Parish as at the 2011 census was 210. The village lies on the A488, one mile south of Bishop's Castle, on the road to Clun.
Cefn Einion
Hamlet
Photo: Jonathan Wilkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cefn Einion is a dispersed hamlet in southwest Shropshire, England. It is located two miles southwest of the village of Colebatch, and lies between the small villages of Bryn and Mainstone. Cefn Einion is situated 2 miles west of Acton Bank.
Bicton
Hamlet
Photo: Jonathan Wilkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bicton is a hamlet in southwest Shropshire, England, one mile north of Clun. The short River Unk passes through the hamlet. In previous centuries it was a township in the Clun division of the hundred of Clun. Bicton is situated 2 miles southwest of Acton Bank.
Acton Bank
- Type: Castle
- Description: castle in the UK
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Lydbury North, Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Acton Bank” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Acton Bank”
- Swedish: “Acton Bank”
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