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Cound Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Cound

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Cound history

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Prehistoric and Roman

Cound has been occupied since the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age and small artefacts from these periods have been discovered in considerable numbers. During the warmer and milder weather of the Iron Age, the Roman period and into the early medieval period Cound remained important as a busy crossing point for the River Severn.

A medieval forest

Most of southern Shropshire, including the manor of Cound, was set aside as a Royal forest and game hunting grounds under special jurisdiction of a Shire reeve. The original Cound Manor House is thought to have been built around this time. The farm buildings of the present Cound Hall lie just to the south of the walled kitchen garden.

Iron bridges

Coundarbour bridge was built over the Cound Brook by the renowned engineer Thomas Telford in 1797. It remains the oldest iron bridge still in vehicular use anywhere in the world.

Cound Hall

The surviving manor house of Cound Hall is a Grade I listed building and a large vernacular Baroque house, with a basement and two storeys of tall slender windows topped by a half-storey. The house is most notable for its large stop-fluted Corinthian pilasters with richly carved capitals, which have been described as “ambitious but inept”

A river port and railway

Riverside Inn, formerly the Cound Lodge Inn, on the A458 was built as a house in the early 18th century facing the river Severn. It was an alehouse by 1745 serving turnpike traffic on the road which then ran between the inn and the river. The building of the railway line and station commenced in 1858 and opened for trade in 1862 but never handled much in the way of passengers. Mainly wool skeins, agricultural produce and specifically coal, from the busy collieries of Alveley and Highley, were the principal sources of revenue.

Cound geography / climate

Waterway

The village of Cound is situated on a low lying flood plain on the west bank of the River Severn. The various settlements that make up the village are bisected by the Cound Brook, an important local tributary of the river. The brook rises in the Stretton Hills some fifteen miles to the south west.

Geology

Cound stands to the east of an outcropping spur, consisting of a Pre-Cambrian limestone and sandstone sedimentary rock extension of the Longmyndian range. The sediments that make up Coundmoor and the flood plain were laid down under a vast warm ocean, surrounded by many volcanoes. The soils have been further enriched through regular flooding by the Severn and the Cound Brook, depositing enriched silts.

Sandstone quarrying and gravel sink holes

Cound’s own gravel sink hole pit is now established as a lake fed by its own spring source and is run as the commercial Cound Trout Fishery. There are many small sand and gravel quarries located around the village.

You can visit Cound places with Walkfo Cound to hear history at Cound’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Cound has 22 places to visit in our interactive Cound map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Cound, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Cound places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Cound & the surrounding areas.

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22 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Cound historic spots	Cound tourist destinations	Cound plaques	Cound geographic features
Walkfo Cound tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Cound

  

Best Cound places to visit

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Cound has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Cound’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Cound’s information audio spots:

Pitchford Hall Pitchford Hall is a large Grade I listed Tudor country house in the village of Pitchford, Shropshire, 6 miles south east of Shrewsbury. It was built c.1560 on the site of a medieval building and has been modified several times since. It is a timber framed two-storey building with rendered red sandstone panels, a stone roof and brick chimneys.

St Andrew’s Church, Wroxeter St Andrew’s Church is a redundant Church of England parish church in the village of Wroxeter, Shropshire. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.

St Eata’s Church, Atcham St Eata’s Church is in the village of Atcham, Shropshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Shrewsbury, the archdeaconry of Salop and the diocese of Lichfield. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.

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