Charlton Castle was a fortified
manor house situated in
Shropshire between
Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury ( , also ) is a market town, civil parish, and the county town of Shropshire, England, on the River Severn, north-west of London; at the 2021 census, it had a population of 76,782. The town's name can be pronounced as either 'Sh ...
and
Telford ().
Sir John Charlton was licensed to
crenellate his dwelling at Charlton in 1316. This defended manor house was known as Charlton Castle, and was apparently still used as a residence of the Lords of Powys in the earlier part of the 16th century. In 1588 it was sold to
Francis Newport but then fell into disrepair.
The site is on
Historic England's
Heritage at Risk Register due to being very overgrown .
References
Charlton Castle*Fry, Plantagenet Somerset, ''The David & Charles Book of Castles'', David & Charles, 1980.
Castles in Shropshire
Scheduled monuments in Shropshire
Structures on the Heritage at Risk register
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