Eakring is a Village in the county of Nottinghamshire.

Retail in Eakring

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

Nottingham is a great place to visit close to Eakring if you like cities.

Nottingham Castle is one of Eakring's best, nearby castles to visit in Eakring.

The area around Eakring's best historic buildings can be found at Nottingham Castle.

There are a number of villages near to Eakring including Gedling.

There are a several good country parks in the area around Eakring like Gedling Country Park.

Victoria Centre is one of Eakring's best, nearby shopping centres to visit in Eakring.

Eakring History

There are some historic monuments around Eakring:

• Oldox camp
• Bowl barrow 70m south of church of St Michael
• Bothamsall motte and bailey castle and hollow way
• Mound 300yds (270m) W of Moorfields Farm
• Three round barrows on Laxton Common
• Motte and bailey castle and associated medieval and post-medieval manorial remains, including six fishponds
• Haughton Chapel
• Roman villa complex and Anglo-Saxon cemetery, Southwell
• Moated fishpond complex with moat, fishstews, seven fishponds with sluices, ridge and furrow and a leat
• Earlshaw Hall moat
• Rufford Abbey Cistercian monastery: monastic precinct, water-management works, pre-monastic open-field system and post-medieval building
• Archbishop's Palace
• Roman camp 470m south of Carr Banks Farm
• Gaddick Hill medieval motte and bailey castle and post-medieval manor house
• Jordan Castle: ringwork, fortified manor, hollow way, fishpond and ridge and furrow
• Site of old hall S of Haughton Hall Farm
• Bowl barrow, 452m north west of Cameleon Lodge
• Fishponds 220m south west of St Michael's Church
• Slight univallate hillfort, 169m west of Combs Farm
• Earthwork to E of village
• Medieval settlement including a moated site and open field system, immediately north east and south of Hall Farm
• Haughton decoy and motte and bailey castle
• Moated site, fishponds and decoy pond 490m north west of Park Spring Farm
• Roman vexillation fortress 310m and 530m south of Osmanthorpe Manor
• Cross in St Michael's churchyard