Great Horwood is a Village in the county of Buckinghamshire.

Retail in Great Horwood

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

Great Horwood's best nearby villages can be found at Haddenham, Caldecotte, Blue Bridge, New Bradwell, Tathall End, Castlethorpe, and Weston Underwood.

There are a several good towns in the Great Horwood area like Milton Keynes, Olney, High Wycombe, Buckingham, and Aylesbury.

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

Lakes to visit near Great Horwood include Willen Lake, and Thorney Country Park.

Great Horwood has some unmissable shopping centres nearby like The Centre:mk, and Eden Shopping Centre.

There are a number of historic buildings near Great Horwood including 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.

The area close to Great Horwood boasts some of the best country parks including Thorney Country Park.

The area close to Great Horwood boasts some of the best airports including Wycombe Air Park.

Great Horwood History

There are some historic monuments around Great Horwood:

• Wolverton iron trunk aqueduct
• Remains of the church and churchyard of St Mary Magdalen
• Bradwell castle mound: a motte and bailey castle 80m north east of St. Lawrence's Church.
• Medieval hamlet of Littlecote
• A bowl barrow on Church Hill 200m south of church
• Thornborough Bridge
• Two Roman barrows 200m ENE of Thornborough Bridge
• The Grove Close moated site.
• A slight univallate hillfort 600m south east of Home Farm
• Moated site, fishponds and deserted medieval village of Tattenhoe, 300m west of Home Park Farm.
• Moated site 80m west of Cedars Farm
• Deserted village (site of) at Fulbrook Farm
• Norbury: a slight univallate hillfort immediately east of Padbury Mill
• Fishpond in Water Spinney 600m SE of St Giles's Church Tattenhoe
• Motte castle and associated remains of the medieval village of Cublington, immediately west of Ridings Way
• Bradwell Bury: a moated site and associated manor house remains at Moat House
• Bolebec Castle, a motte and bailey castle 300m west of St John's Church
• The Toot: a motte and bailey castle and later manorial complex 450m south west of St Mary's Church
• Moated site, fishpond and associated earthworks 150m west of Loughton Manor
• A medieval manorial complex comprising a twin moated site, fishpond and associated earthworks 750m west of St Mary's Church
• Moated site with associated earthworks, 770m south of St Mary's Church, south of the junction of Childs Way and Fulmer Street
• Roman villa SE of Cosgrove Hall
• Quainton medieval standing cross
• Deserted village (site of) at Denham Lodge
• Preceptory of the Knights Hospitallers, associated fishponds, medieval settlement of Hogshaw and the site of the medieval church of St John the Baptist, 200m south of Hogshaw Farm
• Snelshall Benedictine Priory: a moated priory site and fishponds north of Briary Plantation
• Motte and bailey castle, deserted village and monastic grange at Old Wolverton
• Deserted village (site of) at Creslow
• Bradwell Abbey: a Benedictine priory, chapel and fishpond
• Moated site 200m north east of St Nicholas's Church