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.

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

River Clun is one of Preston Upon The Weald Moors's best, nearby rivers and streams to visit in Preston Upon The Weald Moors.

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

Preston Upon The Weald Moors has some unmissable ruins nearby like Clun Castle, and Acton Burnell Castle.

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

There are a several good historic buildings in the area around Preston Upon The Weald Moors like Church of Saint Mary at Acton Burnell.

Places near Preston Upon The Weald Moors feature a number of interesting shopping centres including Telford Centre.

Preston Upon The Weald Moors History

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

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