Caunton is a Village in the county of Nottinghamshire.

Retail in Caunton

There are great places to visit near Caunton including some great cities, castles, historic buildings, villages, country parks and shopping centres.

Cities to visit near Caunton include Nottingham.

Castles to visit near Caunton include Nottingham Castle.

There are a several good historic buildings in the area around Caunton like Nottingham Castle.

Caunton is near some unmissable villages like Gedling,

Don't miss Gedling Country Park's country parks if visiting the area around Caunton.

There are a number of shopping centres near to Caunton including Victoria Centre.

Caunton History

There are some historic monuments around Caunton:

• Cross in St Michael's churchyard
• Old Hall moat and two fishponds
• Newark town wall (Lombard Street)
• Newark Castle
• Archbishop's Palace
• Willoughby deserted medieval village, post-medieval moated manor, church, six fishponds, ridge and furrow and hollow way
• Civil War redoubt 580m ENE of sugar refinery
• Moated fishpond complex with moat, fishstews, seven fishponds with sluices, ridge and furrow and a leat
• Site of pit alignments
• Civil War town defences within the Friary Garden
• Fishponds 220m south west of St Michael's Church
• Bowl barrow 70m south of church of St Michael
• Civil War fieldwork on Crankley Point
• Roman vexillation fortress 310m and 530m south of Osmanthorpe Manor
• Castle Hill
• Gun platform 440m south east of Muskham Bridge
• Site discovered by aerial photography NNE of village
• Civil War Sconce 150m west of Muskham Bridge
• Averham moat and enclosure
• Site of Ad Pontem, Stoke by Newark
• Standing cross 300m north of Trent Farm
• Jordan Castle: ringwork, fortified manor, hollow way, fishpond and ridge and furrow
• Settlement site at Morton
• Little Carlton medieval village and part of the meadow field system
• Iron Age settlement
• Standing cross known as Beaumond Cross
• Civil War redoubt 680m north west of Dairy Farm
• Settlement 3/4 mile (1198m) W of Cromwell Village
• Norwell Woodhouse moat and fishpond
• Roman camp 750m east of Church Cottages
• Three round barrows on Laxton Common
• Moat, three fishponds, enclosures, hollow way and part of a road at Hall Yard
• Standing cross 140m north of The Old Hall
• Moated site 750m north west of Dairy Farm
• Moated site, fishponds and decoy pond 490m north west of Park Spring Farm
• Motte and bailey castle and associated medieval and post-medieval manorial remains, including six fishponds
• Civil War redoubt 550m south east of Valley Farm
• Gaddick Hill medieval motte and bailey castle and post-medieval manor house
• Queen's Sconce
• Bowl barrow 160m south east of Wharf Farm
• Roman villa complex and Anglo-Saxon cemetery, Southwell
• Medieval settlement and remains of open fields immediately west of East Stoke village
• Rectangular barrows at North Muskham
• Hawton moated site, fishpond, Civil War redoubt and ridge and furrow
• Civil War sconce 650m north west of Devon Bridge
• Civil War redoubt on Crankley Point
• Earlshaw Hall moat
• Rolleston manor: three moats, eight fishponds with sluices, ridge and furrow and a leat