The 1861 six-inch OS map shows a footpath just south of the lunatic asylum as "site of Roman road". On later OS maps the marking was dropped from this location.
The Shelton Oak was a long lived oak tree which, by tradition, Owain Glyndŵr climbed to view the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403. An oak tree which died in the 1940s, and the remnants of which were removed for road widening in the 1950s, was said to be the Shelton Oak. In the 1880s an acorn from the Shelton Oak was planted in the Dingle in The Quarry, the main park in Shrewsbury. Shropshire Council is to plant an acorn from that tree in the Mytton Oak Remembrance Park. 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:
An inn called The Oak formerly stood between the Mount and Shelton Road where the two roads meet. It was constructed in 1939 and demolished 60 years later. There is now a monument at the junction where the two roads meet, with a relief featuring the story of the Shelton Oak.
Vicarage
The modern day pub called Oxon Priory, belonging to the 'Hungry Horse' chain, occupies the listed former vicarage for Oxon and Shelton parish.
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. Thomas Telford was Director of the Holyhead Road Commission between 1815 and 1830 and made many improvements to the Holyhead Road. A Toll house was built by Telford in 1829 on the Holyhead Road at Shelton. It was situated at the junction with Featherbed Lane. To allow for road widening in the early 1970s, it was dismantled and re-erected at Blists Hill Victorian Town.
Bypass
In 1933 the Shrewsbury bypass was opened with Shelton at its western end. The section from Shelton to Porthill island is called Shelton Road. 1992 saw the opening of today's A5 bypass further out from Shrewsbury.
was a hospital specialising in mental health, located in Shelton. After services transferred to a modern facility known as the Redwoods Centre, it closed in 2012.
Shelton has a cricket club whose ground is adjacent to the former Shelton Hospital, with which the club has strong historic associations. The team played in the Shropshire Premier Cricket League until the league was wound up after the 2011 season. In 2012 Shelton played in the Premier Division of the newly formed Shropshire County Cricket League but were relegated to Division One at the end of that season. In 2015 Shelton finished second in Division One, gaining promotion to the Premier Division and ending a spell of three years outside the top division. However at the end of the 2016 season they finished bottom of the Premier Division and were relegated back to Division One for the 2017 season.
