Preston Upon The Weald Moors is a Village in the county of Shropshire.

Retail in Preston Upon The Weald Moors

There are great places to visit near Preston Upon The Weald Moors including some great towns, rivers and streams, castles, ruins, villages, historic buildings and shopping centres.

There are a several good towns in the Preston Upon The Weald Moors area like Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford.

The area close to Preston Upon The Weald Moors boasts some of the best rivers and streams including River Clun.

There are a several good castles in the Preston Upon The Weald Moors area like Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle are great places to visit near Preston Upon The Weald Moors if you like ruins.

The area close to Preston Upon The Weald Moors boasts some of the best villages including Acton Burnell.

Places near Preston Upon The Weald Moors feature a number of interesting historic buildings including Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell.

Telford Centre is one of Preston Upon The Weald Moors's best, nearby shopping centres to visit in Preston Upon The Weald Moors.

Preston Upon The Weald Moors History

There are some historic monuments around Preston Upon The Weald Moors:

• Coal mining remains 350m north west and 520m north of New Works village
• Wall Camp in the Weald Moors: a large low-lying multivallate hillfort
• Site of pumping engine at Muxton Bridge colliery
• Parts of a Roman camp and signal station 410m ESE of Watling Street Grange
• Wappenshall canal bridge, Shropshire Union Canal
• Large multivallate and univallate hillforts, a round barrow, a Late Bronze Age settlement and WWII military remains, on The Wrekin
• Lilleshall Abbey
• Buildwas Abbey
• St Leonard's Priory immediately adjacent to the Church of St Mary and St Leonard, Wombridge
• Group of round barrows at Willowmoor
• Canal aqueduct over River Tern
• 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)
• Butter Cross or Pulestone Cross, on the south west side of the market place
• Roving bridge and lock called Newport Lock 255m south east of Wrekin View Farm
• Headgear at Grange colliery, 240m north west of Watling Street Grange
• Wrekin Rifle Range