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.

There are a several good towns in the Oakengates area like Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford.

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

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

Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle are great places to visit near Oakengates if you like ruins.

Don't miss Acton Burnell's villages if visiting the area around Oakengates.

Historic Buildings to visit near Oakengates include Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell.

There are a several good shopping centres in the area around Oakengates like Telford Centre.

Oakengates History

There are some historic monuments around Oakengates:

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