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 has some unmissable villages nearby like Haddenham, Caldecotte, Blue Bridge, New Bradwell, Tathall End, Castlethorpe, and Weston Underwood.

Great Horwood has some unmissable towns nearby like Milton Keynes, Olney, High Wycombe, Buckingham, and Aylesbury.

Willen Lake, and Campbell Park are some of Great Horwood best parks to visit near Great Horwood.

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.

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 some of Great Horwood best historic buildings to visit near Great Horwood.

There are a number of country parks near to Great Horwood including Thorney Country Park.

There are a number of airports near to Great Horwood including Wycombe Air Park.

Great Horwood History

There are some historic monuments around Great Horwood:

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