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's best nearby ancient sites can be found at The Rollright Stones, The King Stone, The Whispering Knights, and The Kings Men.

There are a several good cities in the area around Bourton like Oxford.

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

Banbury is one of Bourton's best, nearby towns to visit in Bourton.

There are a number of historic buildings near to Bourton including Upton House.

Bourton History

There are some historic monuments around Bourton:

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