Cowley is a Village in the county of Oxfordshire.

Cowley postcode: OX4 6

Retail in Cowley

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

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

Cowley is near some unmissable cities like Oxford,

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

There are a number of towns near to Cowley including Banbury.

There are a several good historic buildings in the area around Cowley like Upton House.

Cowley History

There are some historic monuments around Cowley:

• Two sections of a Roman road on Ot Moor
• Osney Abbey (remains of)
• Romano-Celtic temple N of Woodeaton
• Roman town
• Woodeaton village cross
• Romano-British pottery site, prehistoric ring-ditches and enclosures, including medieval ridge and furrow, Lower Farm, Nuneham Courtenay
• Old Abingdon Road Culverts
• Islip Roman villa, 300m east of Hillside Farm
• Oxford city walls
• Swing bridge, LNWR Station
• Rewley Abbey
• Settlement site SE of church
• Settlement sites N of Wick Hall
• Carfax Conduit, 540m south west of Nuneham House
• North Hinksey conduit house
• Site of Roman kilns
• Culham Bridge
• Castle mound at Fitzharris
• Dike Hills
• Anglo-Saxon great hall complex and Roman settlement features at Long Wittenham
• Abingdon Bridge including Maud Hale's Bridge
• Settlement site N of Thames
• Settlement site
• Moated site 580m south west of Church Farm
• Oxford Castle and earlier settlement remains
• Dovecote at Culham Manor, 110m south west of St Paul's Church
• Godstow Abbey: a Benedictine nunnery, associated earthworks, leats and bridge, immediately south of Godstow Bridge
• Church Piece cemetery site
• Chislehampton Bridge
• Round barrow cemetery at Fullamoor Plantation
• Garsington village cross
• Ring ditches, barrows and associated enclosures, Port Meadow
• Sutton Wick settlement site
• Section of the Grandpont causeway
• Settlement site E of Goose Acre Farm
• Ock Bridge
• Seacourt medieval settlement 760m west of Manor Farm, Binsey
• Abingdon Abbey (remains of)
• Settlement site at Northfield Farm
• Ring ditches, cursus, enclosures and settlement site
• Moated site of Holton House and its associated ice house
• Barton (remains of)