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Wrekin Rifle Range is a nineteenth-century military installation located on The Wrekin in Shropshire. The site comprises earthwork remains associated with rifle practice and marksmanship training, reflecting the Victorian era's expansion of military infrastructure and the development of modern firearms training facilities. The range represents the practical application of nineteenth-century military organisation on this prominent hilltop, which had held strategic significance since antiquity. The physical remains document the period when rifle shooting became a standardised component of military training and civilian volunteer forces.
Wrekin Rifle Range is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1445909. View the official record →
Wrekin Rifle Range is a nineteenth-century military installation located on The Wrekin in Shropshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1445909.
Wrekin Rifle Range is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1445909.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Large multivallate and univallate hillforts, a round barrow, a Late Bronze Age settlement and WWII military remains, on The Wrekin (0.9 km), Group of round barrows at Willowmoor (1.5 km), Buildwas Abbey (4.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Wrekin Rifle Range's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Wrekin Rifle Range stands on Permian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.