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.

Ancient Sites to visit near Faringdon include The Rollright Stones, The King Stone, The Whispering Knights, and The Kings Men.

There are a several good cities in the area around Faringdon like Oxford.

Don't miss Westgate Oxford's shopping centres if visiting the area around Faringdon.

The area close to Faringdon boasts some of the best towns including Banbury.

Upton House is one of Faringdon's best, nearby historic buildings to visit in Faringdon.

Faringdon History

There are some historic monuments around Faringdon:

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