Dinton is a Village in the county of Buckinghamshire.

Dinton postcode: HP17 8UH

Retail in Dinton

There are great places to visit near Dinton including some great villages, towns, parks, lakes, shopping centres, historic buildings, country parks and airports.

Villages to visit near Dinton include Haddenham, Caldecotte, Blue Bridge, New Bradwell, Tathall End, Castlethorpe, and Weston Underwood.

Towns to visit near Dinton include Milton Keynes, Olney, High Wycombe, Buckingham, and Aylesbury.

Parks to visit near Dinton include Willen Lake, and Campbell Park.

Willen Lake, and Thorney Country Park are some of Dinton best lakes to visit near Dinton.

There are a several good shopping centres in the Dinton area like The Centre:mk, and Eden Shopping Centre.

Church of St Simon and St Jude, St Peter and St Paul - Olney, Weston Underwood, Church of St James the Great - Hanslope, The Old Gaol, and Waddesdon Manor are great places to visit near Dinton if you like historic buildings.

Don't miss Thorney Country Park's country parks if visiting the area around Dinton.

Airports to visit near Dinton include Wycombe Air Park.

Dinton History

There are some historic monuments around Dinton:

• Deserted villages and Civil War earthwork
• Cross dyke 480m east of Great Kimble church
• The Mount
• Moated site and associated medieval remains 430m north of Church Farm
• Cross dyke on Whiteleaf Hill, 165m south east of the Whiteleaf Cross
• Moated site E of Moorend Lane
• Three bowl barrows on Chinnor Hill, two 150m and one 600m SW of Highlands
• Cymbeline's Castle: a motte and bailey castle 550m south west of Ellesborough church
• A Neolithic barrow on Whiteleaf Hill, 50m east of Whiteleaf Cross
• Hill figure on Whiteleaf Hill, known as the Whiteleaf Cross
• Site of the medieval village of Moreton
• Bolebec Castle, a motte and bailey castle 300m west of St John's Church
• Bowl barrow on 'The Cop' hill, 270m north of Thickthorne Wood trig pillar
• Moated site 650m south of Beachendon Farm
• A bowl barrow on Whiteleaf Hill, 200m north of Whiteleaf Cross
• Bowl barrow on Lodge Hill, 650m east of Old Callow Down Farm
• Village settlement site on Lodge Hill
• Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 176m long section south west of White House Farm
• Small multivallate hillfort on Pulpit Hill
• Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 1.02km long section from west of White House Farm to Lily Bank Farm
• Roman villa 140m east of St Mary and St Nicholas' Church
• Deserted village (site of) at Denham Lodge
• Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 580m long section between Lily Bottom Lane and Redland End
• Moated site and medieval settlement remains 200m south west of Manor Farm
• Moated site 250m north west of Elmbrook Farm
• Two bell barrows at Lodge Hill, 400m NNE of Old Callow Down Farm
• Deserted village (site of) at Creslow
• Notley Abbey: an Augustinian abbey and associated post-Dissolution dovecote
• Anglo-Saxon cemetery on Hemley Hill
• Bledlow Cross
• Moated site immediately south east of St Nicholas's Church
• Dial Hill Roman barrow, 50m north west of St Nicholas's Church
• Cross dyke on Ragpit Hill, 230m ENE of Great Kimble church
• Moated site at Apsley Manor Farm
• A bowl barrow on Whiteleaf Hill, 90m north of Whiteleaf Cross
• Roundabout Wood moated site, fishponds, and farming and settlement remains
• Bowl barrow known as the Round Hill, 170m ENE of Roundhill Farm
• Nucleated medieval settlement east of Waldridge Manor
• Motte and bailey castle, moated site and Roman villa immediately east of All Saint's Church
• Moated site 310m east of Pasture Farm
• Medieval settlement of Eythrope
• Moated site NW of Aston Mullins
• Quainton medieval standing cross