Alvescot is a Village in the county of Oxfordshire.

Retail in Alvescot

There are great places to visit near Alvescot including some great ancient sites, cities, shopping centres, towns and historic buildings.

The area around Alvescot features a number of interesting ancient sites including The Rollright Stones, The King Stone, The Whispering Knights, and The Kings Men.

Cities to visit near Alvescot include Oxford.

Don't miss Westgate Oxford's shopping centres if visiting the area around Alvescot.

Banbury is a great place to visit close to Alvescot if you like towns.

Alvescot is near some unmissable historic buildings like Upton House,

Alvescot History

There are some historic monuments around Alvescot:

• Halfpenny Bridge
• Pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows 150m north of Roustage Wood
• Romano-British villa south east of Great Barrington
• Leafield Barrow: a motte castle 220m north west of St Michael and All Angels Church
• Shipton Barrow: a bowl barrow, Saxon barrow, and associated earthwork enclosure 350m north of Downs Lodge
• Ring ditches
• Burroway enclosure
• Enclosures 1500m SE of Little Faringdon
• Interrupted ditch system
• Long barrow situated in Southlawn Plain Woods
• Radcot Bridge
• Long mortuary enclosure and associated barrow 120m south of Rushey Weir
• Multi-period settlement, cemetery, and ceremonial complex W of Lechlade
• Dovecote 125m north of Minster Lovell Hall
• Churchyard cross, 10m south east of St John the Baptist's Church
• Causewayed enclosure and settlement enclosures immediately north west of Shire Gate
• Lew village cross
• Iron Age settlement centring 500m SW of Black Bourton
• Rectangular enclosures 1100yds (1010m) NW of Mount Owen Farm
• Settlement 700m NE of Lechlade
• Earthwork in Ewedown Copse
• Minster Lovell Hall
• Pair of bowl barrows immediately south of Blindwell Wood
• Wyke monastic grange and section of 18th century turnpike road, 780m south of Tudor Farm
• Tithe barn
• Ring ditches and enclosures
• Roman villa 600yds (550m) NE of Great Lemhill Farm
• Causewayed enclosure and associated features on the south bank of the River Thames, immediately west of Rushey Weir
• Iron Age and Romano British settlement remains and associated features, 1km south east of Leaze Farm
• Roman villa and associated bath house 450m north west of Lower Field Farm
• Trackways 500yds (460m) E of St George's Church
• Medieval settlement remains at Inglesham
• Site of 19th century pottery factory NW of Leafield
• St John's Hospital
• Pain's Farm bowl barrow 30m south of Pain's Farm Cottages
• Badbury camp
• Earthwork at Lowbarrow Farm
• Enclosures and trackways
• Settlement site
• Asthall Barrow: an Anglo-Saxon burial mound 100m SSW of Barrow Farm
• Barrington Park Roman villa, Great Barrington
• Medieval settlement of Widford immediately east of Manor Farm
• Anglo-Saxon burial mound 450m north west of University Farm
• Pair of confluent bowl barrows 200m SSW of Bockett's Corner on Leigh Hale Plain