Shilton is a Village in the county of Oxfordshire.

Retail in Shilton

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

There are a number of ancient sites near Shilton including The Rollright Stones, The King Stone, The Whispering Knights, and The Kings Men.

Oxford is a great place to visit close to Shilton if you like cities.

Shilton is near some unmissable shopping centres like Westgate Oxford,

There are a several good towns in the area around Shilton like Banbury.

Places near Shilton feature a number of interesting historic buildings including Upton House.

Shilton History

There are some historic monuments around Shilton:

• St John's Hospital
• The socket stone and part of the shaft of a churchyard cross in St Michael and St Martin's churchyard, Eastleach Martin
• Waterman's Lodge bowl barrow, one of a pair of Bronze Age barrows on the western edge of Wychwood Forest
• Ring ditches
• Leafield Barrow: a motte castle 220m north west of St Michael and All Angels Church
• Roman villa 600yds (550m) NE of Great Lemhill Farm
• Settlement site
• Roman villa and associated bath house 450m north west of Lower Field Farm
• Idbury Camp hillfort
• Site of 19th century pottery factory NW of Leafield
• Causewayed enclosure and associated features on the south bank of the River Thames, immediately west of Rushey Weir
• One of a pair of bowl barrows 370m NW of High Lodge
• Interrupted ditch system
• Pain's Farm bowl barrow 30m south of Pain's Farm Cottages
• Slatepits Copse long barrow, 1km SE of High Lodge in Wychwood Forest
• Medieval moat surrounding High Lodge, 400m north east of Kingstanding Farm
• Lew village cross
• Bowl barrow 400m north west of Ranger's Lodge in Cornbury Park
• Pair of bowl barrows immediately south of Blindwell Wood
• Burroway enclosure
• Multi-period settlement, cemetery, and ceremonial complex W of Lechlade
• The socket stone and step of a churchyard cross in St Andrew's churchyard, Eastleach Turville
• Long barrow 150m west of Churchill Copse in Wychwood Forest
• Radcot Bridge
• Pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows situated on Maple Hill in Wychwood Forest
• Anglo-Saxon burial mound 450m north west of University Farm
• Iron Age settlement centring 500m SW of Black Bourton
• Bowl barrow 150m east of Waterman's Lodge: one of a pair of Bronze Age barrows on the western edge of Wychwood Forest
• One of a pair of bowl barrows 370m north-west of High Lodge
• Minster Lovell Hall
• Barrington Park Roman villa, Great Barrington
• Fifield long barrow
• Dovecote 125m north of Minster Lovell Hall
• Enclosures and trackways
• Causewayed enclosure and settlement enclosures immediately north west of Shire Gate
• Settlement 700m NE of Lechlade
• Long barrow situated in Southlawn Plain Woods
• Ring ditches and enclosures
• Rectangular enclosures 1100yds (1010m) NW of Mount Owen Farm
• Medieval settlement remains at Inglesham
• Iron Age and Romano British settlement remains and associated features, 1km south east of Leaze Farm
• Ascott d'Oyley 12th century motte and bailey castle and associated earthworks
• Site of Langley Palace royal hunting lodge, an associated enclosure and later garden earthworks at Langley Farm
• Medieval settlement of Widford immediately east of Manor Farm
• Ascott Earl motte and bailey castle
• Enclosures 1500m SE of Little Faringdon
• Pair of confluent bowl barrows 200m SSW of Bockett's Corner on Leigh Hale Plain
• Long mortuary enclosure and associated barrow 120m south of Rushey Weir
• Shipton Barrow: a bowl barrow, Saxon barrow, and associated earthwork enclosure 350m north of Downs Lodge
• Asthall Barrow: an Anglo-Saxon burial mound 100m SSW of Barrow Farm
• Earthwork at Lowbarrow Farm
• Churchyard cross, 10m south east of St John the Baptist's Church
• Halfpenny Bridge
• Pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows 150m north of Roustage Wood
• Romano-British villa south east of Great Barrington
• Trackways 500yds (460m) E of St George's Church