Shiplake is a Village in the county of Oxfordshire.

Retail in Shiplake

There are great places to visit near Shiplake including some great ancient sites, cities and shopping centres.

The area around Shiplake features a number of interesting ancient sites including The Rollright Stones, The King Stone, The Whispering Knights, and The Kings Men.

Oxford is a great place to visit close to Shiplake if you like cities.

Shiplake is near some unmissable shopping centres like Westgate Oxford,

Shiplake History

There are some historic monuments around Shiplake:

• Bix old church
• Moated site 100m south-west of Bear Place
• High Bridge
• Hurley Priory: A moated Benedictine priory and fishponds and the remains of Ladye Place Mansion
• Highlands Farm Palaeolithic site
• Large multivallate hillfort known as Danesfield Camp
• Greys Court; castle wall, towers and well house
• Roman villa at Mill End
• Ring ditch cropmark E of St Patrick's Avenue
• Cropmark site E of Broadmoor Lane
• Cropmark complex NE of Model Farm
• Cropmark enclosure and pits NE of St Patrick's Avenue
• Cropmark complex in Straighthanger Field
• A slight univallate hillfort known as Medmenham Camp
• Cropmark complex SW of St Patrick's Avenue
• Roman villa north of Yewden Lodge
• Moated site and fishpond at Botany Bay Copse
• Site of St Bartholomew's Church
• Cropmark complex S of Charvil Lane
• Reading Abbey: a Cluniac and Benedictine monastery and Civil War earthwork.