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.

There are a several good ancient sites in the Faringdon area like The Rollright Stones, The King Stone, The Whispering Knights, and The Kings Men.

Cities to visit near Faringdon include Oxford.

There are a several good shopping centres in the area around Faringdon like Westgate Oxford.

The area around Faringdon's best towns can be found at Banbury.

The area around Faringdon's best historic buildings can be found at Upton House.

Faringdon History

There are some historic monuments around Faringdon:

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