Buildwas is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England, on the north bank of the River Severn at grid reference SJ641045.

Buildwas previously had a nine-hole golf course which ran between the River Severn and the site of Ironbridge Power Station.

The manor was assigned to Buildwas Abbey, originally founded as a Savigniac monastery, in 1135 by Roger de Clinton[4] (1129–1148), Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.

After the abbey was suppressed in 1536, as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the site and much of the property was granted to Edward Grey, 3rd Baron Grey of Powis[5] Buildwas was also the site of a station opened in 1862 on the Wellington to Craven Arms Railway and Severn Valley Railway, although the station was inaccessible to the population and visitors who had to get off further down the line at either Ironbridge or Coalbrookdale.

[7] Based on a study of train journeys and travel times, Michael Cobb argued in 1977 that Buildwas could have been a location setting for the fictional Market Blandings in the writings of P.G.

[10] The 1881 census of the village gave valuable insight into how the population had slowly increased and how the jobs had diversified.

There were forty people in the survey who were classified as having an unknown occupation and three male workers in food and lodging.

[13] In June 2018 the Harworth Group announced that it had bought the Ironbridge Power Station site, whose buildings were scheduled for demolition, for an undisclosed sum.

These include an unusually unaltered 12th-century church, a vaulted and tile-floored chapter house, and a re-opened crypt chapel.

[19] The income for the abbey came mainly from a large portfolio of properties, concentrated around monastic granges in the surrounding areas of Shropshire and Staffordshire.