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 Rollright Stones, The King Stone, The Whispering Knights, and The Kings Men are great places to visit near Faringdon if you like ancient sites.

Faringdon is near some unmissable cities like Oxford,

There are a number of shopping centres near to Faringdon including Westgate Oxford.

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

Upton House is a great place to visit close to Faringdon if you like historic buildings.

Faringdon History

There are some historic monuments around Faringdon:

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