Roundton Hill

#4347 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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Roundton Hill is a rounded, steep sided, 1,210 feet hill, volcanic in origin, in the easternmost part of old Montgomeryshire, Wales, which juts into the English border near Church Stoke. It is managed as a nature reserve by the Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust, who acquired it in 1985. ()

Elevation: 1125 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 52°32'52"N, 3°2'33"W

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Roundton Hill – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Montgomery Castle, Snailbeach Mine, The Old Bell Museum, Three Tuns Brewery.

4.6 miW
Forts and castles
Montgomery Castle, Montgomery
119 min walk • Montgomery Castle is a stone-built castle looking over the town of Montgomery in Powys, Mid Wales. It is one of many Norman castles on the border between Wales and England.
6.7 miNE
Museum, Mine
Snailbeach Mine
172 min walk • Snailbeach Countryside Site is an industrial archeology site in Shropshire. It is located three 3 miles south of the village of Pontesbury and around 12 miles from the county town of Shrewsbury. At peak of production during the 19th century, it was reputed to be extracting the largest volume of lead per acre in Europe.
4.6 miW
Specialty museum, Museum, History museum
The Old Bell Museum, Montgomery
117 min walk • The Old Bell Museum is a former 16th-century inn, converted into a museum and run by volunteers from the Montgomery Civic Society of Powys.
4.2 miSE
Nightlife, Brewery
Three Tuns Brewery, Bishop's Castle
106 min walk • The Three Tuns Brewery in Bishop's Castle, Shropshire, England was established in 1642 on its current site, making it the oldest licensed brewery site in Britain.
4.9 miW
Memorial
War Memorial, Montgomery
124 min walk • The Montgomeryshire County War Memorial, located on the summit of Town Hill, south-west of the town of Montgomery, stands tribute to commemorate those from Montgomeryshire who have been killed in all past wars.
1.4 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Corndon Hill
37 min walk • Corndon Hill is a hill in Powys, Mid Wales, whose isolated summit rises to 1,683 ft above sea level. It is surrounded on three sides by the English county of Shropshire and forms a prominent landmark in the Wales-England border.
4.5 miW
52°33'39"N • 3°8'55"W
Cloverlands Model Car Museum, Montgomery
116 min walk • Specialty museum, Museum
5.2 miNE
Hiking, Hiking trail
Wild Edric's Way
132 min walk • Wild Edric's Way is a waymarked long distance footpath running wholly within the county of Shropshire in England. The path runs for 49 miles, mostly sharing the route of the Shropshire Way.
3.9 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Forest
Lymore, Montgomery
101 min walk • Lymore, or Lymore House or Lodge was demolished in 1931. It stood in Lymore Park, one mile ESE of Montgomery, Powys, Wales. The house was a large half-timbered house built by Edward Herbert, 3rd Baron Herbert of Chirbury, c. 1675, to replace the family residences in Montgomery Castle and Black Hall in Montgomery.
1.5 miSW
Church
St Nicholas Church, Church Stoke
40 min walk • St Nicholas's Church, formerly called St Mary's Church until 1881, is a Church of England parish church in Church Stoke, Powys, Wales. The church's current building is largely the result of 19th-century reconstruction, but it retains its 13th-century tower with a later timber belfry.
5.9 miN
Church
Trelystan
151 min walk • Trelystan is a remote parish and township on the border of the historic county of Montgomeryshire with Shropshire. Trelystan now forms part of the community of Forden, Leighton and Trelystan in Powys.