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.

River Clun is one of Oakengates's best, nearby rivers and streams to visit in Oakengates.

Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle are some of Oakengates best castles to visit near Oakengates.

There are a number of ruins near Oakengates including Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

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

The area around Oakengates's best historic buildings can be found at Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell.

Telford Centre is a great place to visit close to Oakengates if you like shopping centres.

Oakengates History

There are some historic monuments around Oakengates:

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