Oakengates is a Town in the county of Shropshire.

Oakengates postcode: TF2 9

Retail in Oakengates

There are great places to visit near Oakengates including some great towns, rivers and streams, castles, ruins, villages, historic buildings and shopping centres.

The area around Oakengates boasts some of the best towns including Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford.

There are a several good rivers and streams in the area around Oakengates like River Clun.

Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle are some of Oakengates best castles to visit near Oakengates.

The area around Oakengates features a number of interesting ruins including Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

Acton Burnell is one of Oakengates's best, nearby villages to visit in Oakengates.

Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell is a great place to visit close to Oakengates if you like historic buildings.

Places near Oakengates feature a number of interesting shopping centres including Telford Centre.

Oakengates History

There are some historic monuments around Oakengates:

• Coalport Bridge
• Wall Camp in the Weald Moors: a large low-lying multivallate hillfort
• St Leonard's Priory immediately adjacent to the Church of St Mary and St Leonard, Wombridge
• Parts of a Roman camp and signal station 410m ESE of Watling Street Grange
• Lilleshall Beam Blowing Engines
• Enclosed Iron Age farmstead immediately adjacent to The Croft, Pave Lane
• Wrekin Rifle Range
• New Willey Ironworks
• The Iron Bridge
• Butter Cross or Pulestone Cross, on the south west side of the market place
• Bedlam Furnaces
• Buildwas Abbey
• Darby Ironworks, Coalbrookdale (furnaces, forehearths and blowing house areas)
• Coalport Inclined Plane
• Roving bridge and lock called Newport Lock 255m south east of Wrekin View Farm
• Site of pumping engine at Muxton Bridge colliery
• Wappenshall canal bridge, Shropshire Union Canal
• Blists Hill Iron Furnaces
• Coal mining remains 350m north west and 520m north of New Works village
• Canal aqueduct
• Churchyard of St James's Church
• Lilleshall Abbey
• Group of round barrows at Willowmoor
• Part of a small Roman town, the Roman road called Watling Street and a mansio 255m north west of Upper Woodhouse Farm
• Roman fort 300m east of Drayton Lodge Farm
• Large multivallate and univallate hillforts, a round barrow, a Late Bronze Age settlement and WWII military remains, on The Wrekin
• Headgear at Grange colliery, 240m north west of Watling Street Grange
• Old Park Farm moated site