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.

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

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

The area around Oakengates's best villages can be found at Acton Burnell.

Oakengates is near some unmissable historic buildings like Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell,

Don't miss Telford Centre's shopping centres if visiting the area around Oakengates.

Oakengates History

There are some historic monuments around Oakengates:

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