Kencot is a Village in the county of Oxfordshire.

Retail in Kencot

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

The area around Kencot features a number of interesting ancient sites including The Rollright Stones, The King Stone, The Whispering Knights, and The Kings Men.

Cities to visit near Kencot include Oxford.

Westgate Oxford is one of Kencot's best, nearby shopping centres to visit in Kencot.

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

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

Kencot History

There are some historic monuments around Kencot:

• Radcot Bridge
• St John's Hospital
• Site of Langley Palace royal hunting lodge, an associated enclosure and later garden earthworks at Langley Farm
• Four Highworth circles east of North Leaze Farm
• Medieval settlement of Widford immediately east of Manor Farm
• Churchyard cross, 10m south east of St John the Baptist's Church
• Highworth circle 470m north east of North Leaze Farm
• The socket stone and part of the shaft of a churchyard cross in St Michael and St Martin's churchyard, Eastleach Martin
• Halfpenny Bridge
• Long barrow situated in Southlawn Plain Woods
• Long mortuary enclosure and associated barrow 120m south of Rushey Weir
• Settlement 700m NE of Lechlade
• Highworth circle 520m north west of North Leaze Farm
• Site of 19th century pottery factory NW of Leafield
• Leafield Barrow: a motte castle 220m north west of St Michael and All Angels Church
• Anglo-Saxon burial mound 450m north west of University Farm
• Two Highworth circles 600m south east of North Leaze Farm
• Ring ditches and enclosures
• Enclosures and trackways
• Enclosures 1500m SE of Little Faringdon
• Interrupted ditch system
• Rectangular enclosures 1100yds (1010m) NW of Mount Owen Farm
• Tithe barn
• Pain's Farm bowl barrow 30m south of Pain's Farm Cottages
• Barrington Park Roman villa, Great Barrington
• Earthwork in Ewedown Copse
• Asthall Barrow: an Anglo-Saxon burial mound 100m SSW of Barrow Farm
• Pair of confluent bowl barrows 200m SSW of Bockett's Corner on Leigh Hale Plain
• Causewayed enclosure and associated features on the south bank of the River Thames, immediately west of Rushey Weir
• Ring ditches
• Burroway enclosure
• Earthwork at Lowbarrow Farm
• Roman villa 600yds (550m) NE of Great Lemhill Farm
• Romano-British villa south east of Great Barrington
• Wyke monastic grange and section of 18th century turnpike road, 780m south of Tudor Farm
• Five bowl barrows 870m north west of Eastleachdowns Farm
• Iron Age settlement centring 500m SW of Black Bourton
• Settlement site
• Causewayed enclosure and settlement enclosures immediately north west of Shire Gate
• Pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows 150m north of Roustage Wood
• Iron Age and Romano British settlement remains and associated features, 1km south east of Leaze Farm
• Roman villa and associated bath house 450m north west of Lower Field Farm
• Badbury camp
• Trackways 500yds (460m) E of St George's Church
• Multi-period settlement, cemetery, and ceremonial complex W of Lechlade
• Shipton Barrow: a bowl barrow, Saxon barrow, and associated earthwork enclosure 350m north of Downs Lodge
• Three Highworth circles 600m east of North Leaze Farm
• Round barrow 750m north east of Eastleachdowns Farm
• Medieval settlement remains at Inglesham
• The socket stone and step of a churchyard cross in St Andrew's churchyard, Eastleach Turville