Burford is a Town in the county of Oxfordshire.

Retail in Burford

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

Ancient Sites to visit near Burford include The Rollright Stones, The King Stone, The Whispering Knights, and The Kings Men.

Oxford is one of Burford's best, nearby cities to visit in Burford.

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

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

Don't miss Upton House's historic buildings if visiting the area around Burford.

Burford History

There are some historic monuments around Burford:

• Ascott Earl motte and bailey castle
• Causewayed enclosure and settlement enclosures immediately north west of Shire Gate
• Settlement site
• Idbury Camp hillfort
• Two bowl barrows, known as Heath Hill round barrows, 70m and 190m north east of Heath Hill
• One of a pair of bowl barrows 370m NW of High Lodge
• Skew Plantation bowl barrow
• Anglo-Saxon burial mound 450m north west of University Farm
• Squire's Clump Anglo-Saxon burial mound 500m south west of Iron Buildings
• Lyneham long barrow and standing stone, 480m north east of Hill Barn
• Bowl barrow 525m north of Barter's Hill Farm
• Barrington Park Roman villa, Great Barrington
• Iron Age settlement centring 500m SW of Black Bourton
• Site of Langley Palace royal hunting lodge, an associated enclosure and later garden earthworks at Langley Farm
• Shipton Barrow: a bowl barrow, Saxon barrow, and associated earthwork enclosure 350m north of Downs Lodge
• Ascott d'Oyley 12th century motte and bailey castle and associated earthworks
• Round barrow 750m north east of Eastleachdowns Farm
• Icomb camp
• The socket stone and part of the shaft of a churchyard cross in St Michael and St Martin's churchyard, Eastleach Martin
• Five bowl barrows 870m north west of Eastleachdowns Farm
• Roman villa 600yds (550m) NE of Great Lemhill Farm
• One of a pair of bowl barrows 370m north-west of High Lodge
• Leafield Barrow: a motte castle 220m north west of St Michael and All Angels Church
• Romano-British villa south east of Great Barrington
• The socket stone and step of a churchyard cross in St Andrew's churchyard, Eastleach Turville
• Ring ditches and enclosures
• Wyck Beacon bowl barrow
• Pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows 150m north of Roustage Wood
• Interrupted ditch system
• Knollbury camp hillfort
• Site of 19th century pottery factory NW of Leafield
• Earthwork at Lowbarrow Farm
• Roman villa and associated bath house 450m north west of Lower Field Farm
• Long barrow situated in Southlawn Plain Woods
• Medieval settlement of Widford immediately east of Manor Farm
• Ring ditches
• The Roundabout hillfort, 460m west of Barter's Hill Farm
• Pair of confluent bowl barrows 200m SSW of Bockett's Corner on Leigh Hale Plain
• Fifield long barrow
• Asthall Barrow: an Anglo-Saxon burial mound 100m SSW of Barrow Farm
• Pain's Farm bowl barrow 30m south of Pain's Farm Cottages
• Rectangular enclosures 1100yds (1010m) NW of Mount Owen Farm