Bourton is a Village in the county of Oxfordshire.

Retail in Bourton

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

Bourton has some unmissable ancient sites nearby like The Rollright Stones, The King Stone, The Whispering Knights, and The Kings Men.

Bourton is near some unmissable cities like Oxford,

Places near Bourton feature a number of interesting shopping centres including Westgate Oxford.

Bourton is near some unmissable towns like Banbury,

Places near Bourton feature a number of interesting historic buildings including Upton House.

Bourton History

There are some historic monuments around Bourton:

• Hardwell Camp promontory fort
• Bowl barrow 85m north east of Day House Cottages
• Bowl barrow 280m north of Downs Barn
• Bowl barrow on Hinton Downs
• Long barrow 700m north of Liddington Warren Farm
• Dragon Hill
• Cross dyke and field banks in Peaks Wood 210m east of Hellscomb Cottages
• Two bowl barrows in Shipley Bottom
• Site of Roman town, W of Wanborough House
• Wayland's Smithy chambered long barrow, including an earlier barrow and Iron Age and Roman boundary ditches
• Bowl barrow 350m south-west of Harley Bushes, Bishopstone Downs
• The Giant's Grave round barrow cemetery
• Highworth circle 470m north east of North Leaze Farm
• Bronze Age bowl barrow and a pair of Anglo-Saxon burial mounds 70m south of the White Horse on Whitehorse Hill
• Bourton village cross
• Barrow cemetery 200m south of Whitecomb Plantation
• Alfred's Castle univallate hillfort
• Highworth circle 350m north east of Common Farm
• Highworth circle 200m north east of Common Farm
• Uffington Castle: a univallate hillfort immediately north of the Ridgeway on Whitehorse Hill
• Fognam Clump and adjacent field system
• Bowl barrow on Sugar Hill
• Highworth circle 200m south east of Common Farm
• Three round barrows forming the core of a dispersed barrow cemetery on Idstone Down
• Disc barrow 780m north east of North Farm
• Stone circle immediately north east of Day House, Coate
• Bowl barrow 880m north east of Lower Upham Farm
• Liddington Castle
• Wyke monastic grange and section of 18th century turnpike road, 780m south of Tudor Farm
• Little Coxwell camp
• Two Highworth circles 250m and 325m north of Eastrop Farm
• Ditch on Boydon Hole Farm
• Bowl barrow 700m south west of Liddington Warren Farm
• Two bowl barrows 400m south of Whitecomb Plantation
• Watchfield Anglo-Saxon cemetery
• Boundary ditch E of Near Down
• Disc barrow on Burderop Down, 1km north-east of Upper Herdswick Farm
• Neolithic long barrow and Romano-British inhumation cemetery 70m north of Uffington Castle on Whitehorse Hill
• Three Highworth circles 600m east of North Leaze Farm
• Lynchets 850m west of Ridgeway Farm
• Roman villa 530m west of Stanton House
• Two Highworth circles 600m south east of North Leaze Farm
• Medieval settlement, cultivation remains and boundary 550m north west of Upham Hall
• Hall Place
• Badbury camp
• Linear boundary earthwork west of Liddington Castle
• Roman villa 630m south west of Starveall Farm
• Bowl barrow 200m north of Downs Barn
• Bowl barrow 1km west of Sheppard's Farm Dairy
• Bowl barrow 400m north-west of Aldbourne Warren Farm
• Medieval settlement and associated ridge and furrow south-west of Eastrop Farm
• Fognam Clump field system
• Medieval settlement remains at Sevenhampton
• Bowl barrow 150m north of Half Moon Wood
• Four Highworth circles east of North Leaze Farm
• Medieval settlement and prehistoric field system 520m north east and 760m east of Snap Farm
• Medieval settlement remains immediately south east of Fresden Farm
• Sites near Manor Ham Barn
• Bowl barrow 850m north west of North Farm
• Tithe barn
• Highworth circle 520m north west of North Leaze Farm
• Bowl barrow on Sugar Hill
• Whitefield Hill ditch
• Four Highworth circles 150m north east of Pickett's Copse
• The White Horse hill figure 170m NNE of Uffington Castle on Whitehorse Hill
• Bowl barrow on Farncombe Down, 500m south west of Baydon Hole