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.

There are a number of villages near Great Horwood including Haddenham, Caldecotte, Blue Bridge, New Bradwell, Tathall End, Castlethorpe, and Weston Underwood.

The area around Great Horwood features a number of interesting towns including Milton Keynes, Olney, High Wycombe, Buckingham, and Aylesbury.

Willen Lake, and Campbell Park are great places to visit near Great Horwood if you like parks.

There are a number of lakes near Great Horwood including Willen Lake, and Thorney Country Park.

Great Horwood's best nearby shopping centres can be found at 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.

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

Wycombe Air Park is a great place to visit close to Great Horwood if you like airports.

Great Horwood History

There are some historic monuments around Great Horwood:

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