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, shopping centres and historic buildings.

Clun, Shrewsbury, and Telford are some of Preston Upon The Weald Moors best towns to visit near Preston Upon The Weald Moors.

Rivers and Streams to visit near Preston Upon The Weald Moors include River Clun.

The area around Preston Upon The Weald Moors boasts some of the best castles including Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

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

There are a several good villages in the area around Preston Upon The Weald Moors like Acton Burnell.

Shopping Centres to visit near Preston Upon The Weald Moors include Telford Centre.

The area close to Preston Upon The Weald Moors boasts some of the best historic buildings including Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell.

Preston Upon The Weald Moors History

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

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