Bessels Leigh is a Village in the county of Oxfordshire.

Retail in Bessels Leigh

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

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

The area around Bessels Leigh's best cities can be found at Oxford.

Westgate Oxford is one of Bessels Leigh's best, nearby shopping centres to visit in Bessels Leigh.

Towns to visit near Bessels Leigh include Banbury.

The area close to Bessels Leigh boasts some of the best historic buildings including Upton House.

Bessels Leigh History

There are some historic monuments around Bessels Leigh:

• Prehistoric and later settlements near Northmoor
• Site SE of Noah's Ark Inn, Frilford
• Section of the Grandpont causeway
• Settlement site
• Sites discovered by aerial photography, near Foxley Farm
• Rewley Abbey
• Sutton Wick settlement site
• Settlement site N of Cow Lane
• Godstow Abbey: a Benedictine nunnery, associated earthworks, leats and bridge, immediately south of Godstow Bridge
• The Devil's Quoits
• Old Abingdon Road Culverts
• North Hinksey conduit house
• Osney Abbey (remains of)
• Oxford Castle and earlier settlement remains
• Ock Bridge
• Swinford Bridge
• Eynsham market cross
• New Bridge
• Ring ditches, barrows and associated enclosures, Port Meadow
• Great kitchen of manor house
• Barton (remains of)
• Complex of rectangular enclosures, ring ditches and tracks
• Settlement site E of Goose Acre Farm
• Seacourt medieval settlement 760m west of Manor Farm, Binsey
• Abingdon Abbey (remains of)
• Culham Bridge
• Dovecote at Culham Manor, 110m south west of St Paul's Church
• Settlement sites N of Wick Hall
• Swing bridge, LNWR Station
• Settlement site N of Thames
• Oxford city walls
• Abingdon Bridge including Maud Hale's Bridge
• Settlement site
• Eynsham Abbey (site of)
• Castle mound at Fitzharris