Sourton is a Town in the county of Devon.

Retail in Sourton

There are great places to visit near Sourton including some great cities, historic buildings, villages, canals, rivers and streams, beaches, geological features, sssis, hiking areas, nature reserves, towns, parks, airports, castles and ruins.

Places near Sourton feature a number of interesting cities including Exeter.

Sourton's best nearby historic buildings can be found at Exeter Cathedral, St Mary Steps, and St Stephen's Church - Exeter.

Don't miss Starcross, Lynton and Lynmouth, Littleham, Otterton, Branscombe, Beer, and Hope Cove's villages if visiting the area around Sourton.

The area around Sourton features a number of interesting canals including Exeter Canal, and Grand Western Canal at Tiverton.

The area close to Sourton boasts some of the best rivers and streams including East Lyn River.

The area around Sourton features a number of interesting beaches including Blacklands Beach, Branscombe Beach, and Hope Cove.

Don't miss Valley of Rocks's geological features if visiting the area around Sourton.

The area around Sourton's best sssis can be found at Dartmoor.

Don't miss Dartmoor's hiking areas if visiting the area around Sourton.

There are a number of nature reserves near to Sourton including Dartmoor.

Don't miss Dartmouth, Tiverton, Crediton, Topsham, Budleigh Salterton, Sidmouth, and Seaton's towns if visiting the area around Sourton.

Bicton Park is one of Sourton's best, nearby parks to visit in Sourton.

Exeter Airport is a great place to visit close to Sourton if you like airports.

Castles to visit near Sourton include Berry Pomeroy Castle.

Don't miss Berry Pomeroy Castle's ruins if visiting the area around Sourton.

Sourton History

There are some historic monuments around Sourton:

• Round cairn 700m south-west of Great Nodden
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Round cairn 60m WSW of Branscombe's Loaf forming part of a cemetery on Corn Ridge summit
• Round cairn 590m south-west of Beardown Man lying on the eastern slope of Conies Down Tor
• Round cairn 190m east of Doe Tor summit
• Ringwork, castle, town banks, site of Saxon town and defences
• Meldon viaduct
• Round barrow cemetery and beacon at Heathfield, 650m west of Moorlands
• Medieval homesteads S of Meldon quarry
• Deserted medieval site N of Okehampton camp
• Round cairn 470m south east of Sourton Tors
• Two round cairns 840m south west of Great Nodden
• Stone hut circle 655m south-west of Beardown Man forming part of a dispersed settlement on the eastern slope of Conies Down Tor
• Lake Down cairnfield 810m ESE and 780m east of Lake Viaduct
• Round cairn 700m south of Sourton Tors
• Enclosure in Brandis Wood, 175m north of Longham
• Four cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Okehampton Roman fort, fortlet and associated enclosures
• Okehampton Artillery Range: Observation Post 6 and Incline Target Carrier Railway
• Stone alignment on Conies Down
• Round cairn and shelter 140m north west of Yes Tor summit
• Platform cairn 30m north west of Fordsland Ledge
• An enclosure boundary wall, thirteen stone hut circles and a round cairn on Nattor Down and Hamlyn's Newtake
• Three stone hut circles situated west of the enclosed stone hut circle settlement 260m north of Deadlake Foot
• Tor cairn 180m north of High Willhays summit
• Stone hut circle 530m south-west of Beardown Man forming part of a dispersed settlement on the eastern slope of Conies Down Tor
• Enclosure in Parsonage Wood
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Enclosed stone hut circle settlement 260m north of Deadlake Foot
• Bowl barrow 350m south of Broomhill
• Okehampton Castle: a motte and bailey castle with associated earthworks north of the West Okement River.
• Tor cairn 70m WNW of Branscombe's Loaf forming part of a cemetery on Corn Ridge summit
• Stone circle, cairn alignment, cider millstone and boundary ditch 410m south east of Sourton Tors
• A double stone hut circle and enclosure 280m south of Deadlake Foot
• Ring cairn 120m west of Branscombe's Loaf forming part of a cemetery on Corn Ridge summit
• Deserted medieval settlement 750m south of White Hill summit
• Alluvial tin streamwork in Lydford Woods
• Three round cairns 420m south-west of White Hill summit, forming part of White Hill round cairn cemetery
• Stone hut circle 640m south-west of Beardown Man forming part of a dispersed settlement on the eastern slope of Conies Down Tor
• Four bowl barrows 340m north west of Mount Pleasant Farm
• Three cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• The westernmost of four cairns forming part of the cairnfield on the western slope of White Hill
• Motte with two baileys and a multivallate hillfort at Burley Wood
• The southernmost of four cairns forming part of the cairnfield on the western slope of White Hill
• Ten cairns and a length of bank forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
• Stone cross adjoining Fitz or Fice's Well
• A double stone hut circle forming part of the unenclosed stone hut circle settlement at Watern Oke
• Two cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Two stone hut circles 310m south of Deadlake Foot
• Round cairn 300m south-west of White Hill summit, forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery
• Cairn and cist forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
• Two cairns forming the north eastern edge of a cairnfield on the north eastern slope of White Hill
• Camp SE of Okehampton
• Okehampton Artillery Range: Linear and Curved Target Railways on F Range
• A stone hut circle forming part of an unenclosed settlement, and tinners' building at Watern Oke
• Round cairn and stone cist 310m south of Walla Brook
• Tinners' building lying adjacent to the Black Ridge Brook and situated 1540m NNE of Fur Tor
• Two cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Round cairn 340m south-west of White Hill summit, forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery
• Five stone hut circles forming part of an unenclosed settlement at Watern Oke
• Stone hut circle 400m south east of Great Nodden forming an outlying part of a stone hut circle settlement
• Stone hut circle 630m north-east of Ger Tor
• Round cairn and stone hut circle 950m south of Sourton Tors
• Stone hut circle settlement 280m south-west of Deadlake Foot
• Two circular cairns, an ovoid cairn and a ring cairn lying within an enclosure forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Cairnfield on the western slope of White Hill
• Eastern of five cairns forming an outlying part of a cairnfield on the north eastern slope of White Hill
• Stone hut circle 530m ESE of Nodden Gate forming an outlying part of a stone hut circle settlement
• Two cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Two cairns forming the western edge of a cairnfield on the northern slope of White Hill
• Ring cairn 80m north-east of White Hill summit, forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery
• Ring cairn 50m north-east of White Hill summit forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery
• Round cairn 240m north of Ger Tor
• Icework at Sourton Tors
• Round cairn on Standon Hill
• Stone hut circle settlement 330m south east of Great Nodden
• Round cairn 380m south-west of White Hill summit, forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery
• Ring cairn 510m south west of Great Nodden
• Hut circles and a length of enclosure wall, forming part of a stone hut circle settlement 600m east of Nodden Gate
• Sourton Down Cross, 360m north east of Aliceford Farm
• A stone hut circle forming part of the unenclosed stone hut circle settlement at Watern Oke
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Ring cairn on Great Nodden summit
• Westernmost cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
• Length of boundary wall and seven stone hut circles forming part of a large enclosure north-east of Ger Tor
• Three cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Round cairn 765m south-west of Great Nodden
• Deserted medieval site 1/2 mile (810m) W of Okehampton camp
• Bowl barrow on Wadland Down
• Ring cairn 1060m south west of Great Nodden
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
• Stone hut circle 635m south-west of Beardown Man forming part of a dispersed settlement on the eastern slope of Conies Down Tor
• Two cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• An enclosed stone hut circle settlement, three round cairns and a length of reave 650m WSW of Ger Tor
• Enclosed settlement 420m south of Doetor Farm
• Four cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Two cairns forming part of the cairnfield on the western slope of White Hill
• A cluster of five stone hut circles situated within a large enclosure 470m north-east of Ger Tor
• Round cairn 140m WSW of Branscombe's Loaf forming part of a cemetery on Corn Ridge summit
• Two stone hut circles 675m south-west of Beardown Man forming the southern limit of a dispersed settlement on the eastern slopes of Conies Down Tor
• Sixty stone hut circles forming part of an unenclosed settlement at Watern Oke
• Stone hut circle 370m south east of Great Nodden forming an outlying part of a stone hut circle settlement
• One of five cairns forming an outlying part of a cairnfield on the north eastern slope of White Hill
• Three cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Cairnfield and associated earthworks on the north eastern slope of White Hill
• An alluvial tin streamwork adjacent to the Brim Brook
• Hillfort and medieval settlement in South Longridge Wood
• White Barrow round cairn
• Milestone N of Lower Beardon
• Gallows Hill
• Round cairn 540m north of White Barrow
• Three cairns forming the westernmost part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Ring cairn 460m south-west of White Hill summit, forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery
• Foxhole Mine and other tinworks south east of Arms Tor
• Two stone hut circles 450m SSE of Ger Tor
• Northernmost stone hut circle forming part of the unenclosed stone hut circle settlement at Watern Oke
• Beardown Man standing stone
• Wayside cross in the garden hedge of Southcott Cottage, at a crossroads called Southcott Cross
• Ring cairn and rectangular building earthwork 940m west of Widgery Cross
• Seven cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
• Guide post at Place Cross
• A cluster of five stone hut circles and associated boundary wall situated within a large enclosure 30m north-east of Ger Tor
• Two cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• A stone hut circle 50m west of Western Red Lake
• Enclosure and unenclosed stone hut circle settlement 510m north of Deadlake Foot
• Stone hut circle lying south of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Two bowl barrows on East Kimber Common 525m north west of Stoney
• Two bowl barrows on Broadbury, 140m and 230m south of Oakfield
• Bidlake Mill and leat
• Two cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Round cairn 50m north west of Yes Tor summit
• Deserted medieval site NW of Okehampton camp
• Tor cairn on High Willhays summit
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
• Round cairn 310m SSW of Great Links Tor
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Leawood Plantation barrow
• Tinners' building 680m north east of Fur Tor
• Enclosed stone hut circle settlement 540m east of Doe Tor
• Round cairn 610m north east of Great Nodden
• Round cairn 340m north of Hare Tor
• Tor cairn surrounding Branscombe's Loaf forming part of a cemetery on Corn Ridge summit
• Okehampton Artillery Range: Experimental Parapets and Redoubt
• Stone hut circle settlement 580m north east of White Hill summit
• Two round cairns 715m south-west of Great Nodden
• Two stone hut circles 1000m north of Standon Down
• Round cairn 220m north of Conies Down Tor
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Southernmost cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Tinners' building 90m north east of the confluence of the Brim Brook and West Okement River
• Deserted medieval site 1/4 mile (400m) W of Okehampton camp
• Ring cairn 975m south of Sourton Tors
• Round cairn 270m west of Great Nodden
• Southern White Hill cairnfield
• Bowl barrow on Galford Down, 200m south west of Westdown Pool
• A small stone hut circle forming part of the unenclosed stone hut circle settlement at Watern Oke
• Round cairn and cist on Black Down 1.6km east of Higher Bowden
• Southern of five cairns forming an outlying part of a cairnfield on the north eastern slope of White Hill
• Wheal Betsy pumping house
• Willsworthy Pound adjacent to Willsworthy Bridge
• Cairn 690m south west of White Barrow
• Enclosure, two stone hut circles and an alignment of upright stones 780m north west of Little Links Tor
• Round cairn 750m NNW of East Okement Farm
• Ring cairn 160m WNW of Branscombe's Loaf forming part of a cemetery on Corn Ridge summit
• Cairn forming part of the cairnfield on the western slope of White Hill
• Round cairn on Black Down 410m south west of Anthony Stile
• Eight stone hut circles and a shieling forming part of the unenclosed stone hut circle settlement at Watern Oke
• Ten stone hut circles forming part of an unenclosed settlement at Watern Oke
• Broadbury Castle Roman camp
• Bowl barrow on East Kimber Common, 670m west of Stoney
• Two round cairns 540m ENE of Sourton Tors
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement 770m NNW of Little Links Tor
• A stone hut circle 430m NE of Ger Tor forming part of a settlement situated within a large enclosure
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• North easternmost cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
• Stone hut circle 420m south west of Lints Tor
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill
• Two cairns forming an outlying part of a cairnfield on the northern slope of White Hill
• Eighteen cairns, a length of bank and a recumbent stone forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Stone hut circle and field-plots 100m east of Ger Tor
• Ring cairn 660m north west of Little Links Tor
• Stone hut circle 630m south-west of Beardown Man forming part of a dispersed settlement on the eastern slope of Conies Down Tor
• Enclosure 1250m NNW of Standon Down
• Wayside cross at Durdon Cross
• Stone hut circle 610m ESE of Nodden Gate forming an outlying part of a stone hut circle settlement
• Partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement 290m north west of Lints Tor
• Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Stone hut circle, cairns and irregular aggregate field system 850m SSE of Sourton Tors
• Stone hut circle settlement and enclosures 970m east of Ger Tor
• Round cairn 250m south east of Standon Farm
• Cairnfield, irregular aggregate field system, a ring cairn and three round cairns 800m and 920m south of Moorgate Farm
• Wayside cross at Eastcombe on the road between Durdon Cross and Eastcombe
• Round cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Two cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
• Enclosure and stone hut circle 535m south-west of Beardown Man forming part of the dispersed settlement on the eastern slope of Conies Down Tor
• Village cross in Northlew, 40m south west of the church
• Earthworks on Brent Tor
• Round cairn 550m SSE of Longstone Hill summit
• Ring cairn 450m south of Willsworthy Camp
• Two stone hut circles and a field 340m south west of Lints Tor
• Round cairn 230m south-west of White Hill summit forming part of White Hill round cairn cemetery
• Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement and associated fields north of Standon Down
• Civil War redoubt 750m south east of East Linnacombe