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 some of Faringdon best ancient sites to visit near Faringdon.

There are a number of cities near to Faringdon including Oxford.

The area around Faringdon's best shopping centres can be found at Westgate Oxford.

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

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

Faringdon History

There are some historic monuments around Faringdon:

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