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.

The area around Preston Upon The Weald Moors boasts some of the best towns including Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford.

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

Preston Upon The Weald Moors's best nearby castles can be found at Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

Ruins to visit near Preston Upon The Weald Moors include Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

Places near Preston Upon The Weald Moors feature a number of interesting 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.

Don't miss Telford Centre's shopping centres if visiting the area around Preston Upon The Weald Moors.

Preston Upon The Weald Moors History

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

• Part of a small Roman town, the Roman road called Watling Street and a mansio 255m north west of Upper Woodhouse Farm
• Coal mining remains 350m north west and 520m north of New Works village
• Churchyard of St James's Church
• Parts of a Roman camp and signal station 410m ESE of Watling Street Grange
• Wappenshall canal bridge, Shropshire Union Canal
• Buildwas Abbey
• Group of round barrows at Willowmoor
• 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
• Canal aqueduct over River Tern
• Headgear at Grange colliery, 240m north west of Watling Street Grange
• Butter Cross or Pulestone Cross, on the south west side of the market place
• Large multivallate and univallate hillforts, a round barrow, a Late Bronze Age settlement and WWII military remains, on The Wrekin
• Wrekin Rifle Range
• Roving bridge and lock called Newport Lock 255m south east of Wrekin View Farm
• Site of pumping engine at Muxton Bridge colliery
• Darby Ironworks, Coalbrookdale (furnaces, forehearths and blowing house areas)
• Lilleshall Abbey