Clun Forest, Clun

#3 among attractions in Clun

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Clun Forest is a remote, rural area of open pastures, moorland and mixed deciduous/coniferous woodland in the southwest part of the English county of Shropshire and also just over the border into Powys, Wales. ()

Coordinates: 52°28'0"N, 3°7'60"W

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Clun United Kingdom

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Clun Forest – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Clun Castle, Dolforwyn Castle, Clun Bridge, St Michael and All Angels Church.

5.2 miSE
Forts and castles, Romanesque architecture
Clun Castle, Clun
133 min walk • Clun Castle is a ruined castle in the small town of Clun, Shropshire. Clun Castle was established by the Norman lord Robert de Say after the Norman invasion of England and went on to become an important Marcher lord castle in the 12th century, with an extensive castle-guard system.
7.4 miNW
Forts and castles
Dolforwyn Castle, Newtown
190 min walk • Dolforwyn Castle is a Welsh medieval castle above the village of Abermule, Powys. The fortification was established by Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Gwynedd in the late 13th century.
5.4 miSE
Bridge
Clun Bridge, Clun
138 min walk • Clun Bridge is a historical bridge in the small town of Clun, Shropshire, England dating from 1450 which crosses over the River Clun.
5.7 miNW
Church
St Michael and All Angels Church
146 min walk • St Michael's Church is the parish church of Kerry, in the historic county of Montgomeryshire, now Powys. Kerry is sited about 3 miles to the S E of Newtown. which suggests that there may have been a church on the site since the 7th century.
4 miW
Forts and castles
Bryn Amlwg Castle
104 min walk • Bryn Amlwg Castle was an enclosure castle near Anchor, Shropshire, abutting the England–Wales border. It is a scheduled monument, listed in 1930. This was an enclosure castle of the 12th and 13th centuries, and had towers and a gatehouse. Only earthworks now remain.
5.5 miNE
Church
St Nicholas Church, Church Stoke
141 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.
1.9 miW
Memorial
Cantlin Stone
48 min walk • The Cantlin Stone is a rough stone approximately two feet across with an inscription recording the death of one Willam Cantlin in the place where it is, and the fact that he was buried at the Bettws.
4.5 miSW
Village, Forts and castles, Hotel
Beguildy
116 min walk • Beguildy is a village and community in Powys, Wales. It lies in a remote tract of countryside, 8 miles northwest of Knighton, on the B4355 road to Newtown, near the headwaters of the River Teme, at an elevation of 254 metres.
5.3 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Forest
Radnor Wood, Clun
135 min walk • Radnor Wood is a small forest east of the small town of Clun, Shropshire, England covering an area of 1.5 km². The wood can be easily accessed via the B4368 which passes through Clun and to the south of the forest.
7.4 miNE
Village
Hyssington
189 min walk • Hyssington is a parish in the South-Eastern corner of the historic county of Montgomeryshire in Wales and borders the county of Shropshire in England. It is now within the area of the Church Stoke community council in Powys. It is dominated by Corndon Hill.