The 1861 six-inch OS map [2] shows a footpath just south of the lunatic asylum as "site of Roman road".

In the 1880s an acorn from the Shelton Oak was planted in the Dingle in The Quarry, the main park in Shrewsbury.

Shropshire Council planted an acorn from that tree on opening the nearby Mytton Oak Remembrance Park in 2014.

[8][9] A young oak tree located by the side of the modern junction, where the footpath from the end of Merlin Road emerges onto the main road, has a plaque at its base which reads: Near this site once stood the Shelton Oak from which according to a tradition recorded in the late 18th century Owen Glyndŵr viewed the Battle of Shrewsbury on 31st July 1403.

The following morning he was attended by the Mayor of Shrewsbury and others who conferred on His Royal Highness the freedom of the borough.

[13] Following the Act of Union in 1801 there was a move to enable Irish MPs to make easier journeys to the House of Commons in London.

To allow for road widening in the early 1970s, it was dismantled and re-erected at Blists Hill Victorian Town.