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.

Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford are great places to visit near Oakengates if you like towns.

Don't miss River Clun's rivers and streams if visiting the area around Oakengates.

The area around Oakengates boasts some of the best castles including Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

The area around Oakengates boasts some of the best ruins including Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

There are a number of villages near to Oakengates including Acton Burnell.

Oakengates is near some unmissable historic buildings like Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell,

Shopping Centres to visit near Oakengates include Telford Centre.

Oakengates History

There are some historic monuments around Oakengates:

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