Thurgarton is a Village in the county of Nottinghamshire.

Retail in Thurgarton

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

There are a several good cities in the area around Thurgarton like Nottingham.

There are a several good castles in the area around Thurgarton like Nottingham Castle.

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

The area around Thurgarton's best villages can be found at Gedling.

Gedling Country Park is a great place to visit close to Thurgarton if you like country parks.

Don't miss Victoria Centre's shopping centres if visiting the area around Thurgarton.

Thurgarton History

There are some historic monuments around Thurgarton:

• Motte and bailey castle adjacent to River Trent
• Slight univallate hillfort, 169m west of Combs Farm
• Rolleston manor: three moats, eight fishponds with sluices, ridge and furrow and a leat
• Succession of rectilinear enclosures SW of Shelford Manor
• Minor Romano-British villa, moat and associated medieval manorial and village earthworks, including six fishponds
• Margidunum Roman Station
• Roman villa complex and Anglo-Saxon cemetery, Southwell
• Oldox camp
• Cranmer's Mound: motte castle, prospect mound, moated fishponds, enclosure, hollow way and ridge and furrow
• Site of Ad Pontem, Stoke by Newark
• Settlement site at Morton
• Castle Hill
• Bowl barrow 160m south east of Wharf Farm
• Earlshaw Hall moat
• Moat, two fishponds, boundary bank and ditch and two leats
• Roman camp 470m south of Carr Banks Farm
• Henge 120m south of Lodge Farm
• Medieval settlement and remains of open fields immediately west of East Stoke village
• Civil War gun battery 50m south west of St Peters and St Paul's Church
• Archbishop's Palace
• Moated site, fishponds and decoy pond 490m north west of Park Spring Farm
• Bingham medieval settlement, immediately west of Carnarvon School
• 'Round Hill'
• Medieval village including monastic college, chapel, moat, fishponds, dovecote and open field system 200m south of Manor Farm
• Dovecote 240m east of Home Farm
• Henge 850m south east of Foss Road Farm
• Roman vexillation fortress 310m and 530m south of Osmanthorpe Manor