Faringdon is a Town in the county of Oxfordshire.

Faringdon postcode: SN7 7HL

Retail in Faringdon

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

The area around Faringdon boasts some of the best ancient sites including The Rollright Stones, The King Stone, The Whispering Knights, and The Kings Men.

Faringdon is near some unmissable cities like Oxford,

Faringdon is near some unmissable shopping centres like Westgate Oxford,

Banbury is a great place to visit close to Faringdon if you like towns.

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

Faringdon History

There are some historic monuments around Faringdon:

• Iron Age and Romano British settlement remains and associated features, 1km south east of Leaze Farm
• Watchfield Anglo-Saxon cemetery
• Wyke monastic grange and section of 18th century turnpike road, 780m south of Tudor Farm
• Radcot Bridge
• Trackways 500yds (460m) E of St George's Church
• Rectangular enclosures 1100yds (1010m) NW of Mount Owen Farm
• Bronze Age bowl barrow and a pair of Anglo-Saxon burial mounds 70m south of the White Horse on Whitehorse Hill
• St John's Hospital
• Settlement 700m NE of Lechlade
• Uffington Castle: a univallate hillfort immediately north of the Ridgeway on Whitehorse Hill
• Wayland's Smithy chambered long barrow, including an earlier barrow and Iron Age and Roman boundary ditches
• Interrupted ditch system
• Dragon Hill
• The White Horse hill figure 170m NNE of Uffington Castle on Whitehorse Hill
• Ring ditches
• Ring ditches
• Medieval settlement remains immediately south east of Fresden Farm
• Earthwork in Ewedown Copse
• Enclosures and trackways
• Tithe barn
• Neolithic long barrow and Romano-British inhumation cemetery 70m north of Uffington Castle on Whitehorse Hill
• Causewayed enclosure, 900m west of Chimney Farm
• Badbury camp
• Long mortuary enclosure and associated barrow 120m south of Rushey Weir
• Settlement site
• Hackpen Hill bowl barrow 525m south of Sincombe Farm
• Bourton village cross
• Enclosures 1500m SE of Little Faringdon
• Iron Age settlement centring 500m SW of Black Bourton
• Causewayed enclosure and associated features on the south bank of the River Thames, immediately west of Rushey Weir
• Bowl barrow 850m south west of Sincombe Farm
• Burroway enclosure
• Hardwell Camp promontory fort
• Little Coxwell camp