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.

Stopsley's best nearby nature reserves can be found at RSPB The Lodge, and Sharnbrook Summit.

Galley Hill Hillfort, and Ivinghoe Beacon Hill are great places to visit near Stopsley if you like ancient sites.

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

The area close to Stopsley boasts some of the best woodlands including The Everton Estate.

Stopsley is near some unmissable rivers and streams like River Great Ouse at Bedford,

Don't miss Stevington, Cardington, Willington - Bedford, Whipsnade, Stewartby, Aspley Guise, and Great Barford's villages if visiting the area around Stopsley.

Don't miss Stevington Windmill, Willington Dovecote and Stables, Bedford School Chapel, Stewartby Brickworks, Great Barford Bridge, Market Place Woburn, and Town Hall at Woburn's historic buildings if visiting the area around Stopsley.

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

Stopsley is near some unmissable lakes like Priory Lake,

There are a number of shopping centres near to Stopsley including The Mall Luton.

Stopsley History

There are some historic monuments around Stopsley:

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