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.

There are a several good castles in the Oakengates area like 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 several good villages in the area around Oakengates like Acton Burnell.

There are a number of historic buildings near to Oakengates including Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell.

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

Oakengates History

There are some historic monuments around Oakengates:

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