Stopsley is a Town in the county of Bedfordshire.

Stopsley postcode: LU2 9AD

Retail in Stopsley

There are great places to visit near Stopsley including some great towns, nature reserves, ancient sites, hills, woodlands, rivers and streams, villages, historic buildings, country parks, lakes and shopping centres.

Stopsley's best nearby towns can be found at Sandy, Bedford, Luton, Dunstable, Leighton Buzzard, Cranfield, and Biggleswade.

RSPB The Lodge, and Sharnbrook Summit are some of Stopsley best nature reserves to visit near Stopsley.

The area around Stopsley boasts some of the best ancient sites including Galley Hill Hillfort, and Ivinghoe Beacon Hill.

Hills to visit near Stopsley include Galley Hill Hillfort, and Ivinghoe Beacon Hill.

Places near Stopsley feature a number of interesting woodlands including The Everton Estate.

River Great Ouse at Bedford is one of Stopsley's best, nearby rivers and streams to visit in Stopsley.

Stevington, Cardington, Willington - Bedford, Whipsnade, Stewartby, Aspley Guise, and Great Barford are some of Stopsley best villages to visit near Stopsley.

There are a several good historic buildings in the Stopsley area like Stevington Windmill, Willington Dovecote and Stables, Bedford School Chapel, Stewartby Brickworks, Great Barford Bridge, Market Place Woburn, and Town Hall at Woburn.

Stopsley has some unmissable country parks nearby like Priory Country Park, and Dunstable Downs and Whipsnade Estate.

Priory Lake is one of Stopsley's best, nearby lakes to visit in Stopsley.

The Mall Luton is one of Stopsley's best, nearby shopping centres to visit in Stopsley.

Stopsley History

There are some historic monuments around Stopsley:

• Pirton Grange moated enclosure and associated settling pond, Pirton
• Settlement site 200yds (180m) S of The Camp
• Neolithic enclosure known as Waulud's Bank
• Upbury moated site and associated fishponds
• Bowl barrow in Tingley Field Plantation, near Pegsdon
• Dray's Ditches
• Moated site north of Apsley End
• Dray's Ditches
• Barrow at Telegraph Hill
• Moated site and associated enclosure at Rectory Farm
• Two bowl barrows on Galley Hill, 880m north east of the golf course club house
• Rothamsted Romano-British cemetery
• Apsley Bury moated site and fishpond, south of Apsley End
• Medieval village 100m west of Zouches Farm
• Fishery 500m north east of Manor Farm
• Sharpenhoe Clappers: an Iron Age promontory fort, medieval warren and associated medieval cultivation earthworks
• Moated site in Pegsdon Belt
• Ravensburgh Castle
• Someries Castle: a medieval magnate's residence and formal garden remains
• Moated Site and Associated Earthworks at Bury Farm, Sharpenhoe
• Anglo-Saxon settlement, and probable prehistoric ring ditches, west of Pirton village
• Moated site at Faldo Farm
• Strip lynchets on Stopsley Common
• Toot Hill motte and bailey castle and shrunken medieval village at Pirton
• Bowl barrow at Knocking Knoll, 640m E of Pegsdon Common Farm