Alberbury Castle
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Alberbury Castle is in the village of Alberbury
Alberbury with Cardeston
Alberbury with Cardeston is a civil parish in Shropshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 645 . It includes the villages of Alberbury, Cardeston, Wollaston, Halfway House, Wattlesborough Heath and Rowton, and has the Alberbury Castle within its borders...

, some nine miles north-west of Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury is the county town of Shropshire, in the West Midlands region of England. Lying on the River Severn, it is a civil parish home to some 70,000 inhabitants, and is the primary settlement and headquarters of Shropshire Council...

, Shropshire
Shropshire
Shropshire is a county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. It borders Wales to the west...

 and very close to the border with Wales
Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

. It is a Grade II listed building.

Its origins are uncertain but it was probably built in the 13th century by Fulke Fitz Warine. Only the ruined tower remains.

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