Somerton is a Village in the county of Oxfordshire.

Somerton postcode: OX25 6LJ

Retail in Somerton

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

Somerton has some unmissable ancient sites nearby like The Rollright Stones, The King Stone, The Whispering Knights, and The Kings Men.

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

Somerton is near some unmissable shopping centres like Westgate Oxford,

Places near Somerton feature a number of interesting towns including Banbury.

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

Somerton History

There are some historic monuments around Somerton:

• Rainsborough long barrow, Charlton
• Turf Maze at Troy Farm
• Rectangular enclosure near New Inn
• Roman settlement 600m north east of Rowler
• Copping Knoll bowl barrow 200m south of Rose Cottage
• Middleton Stoney Castle
• Bowl barrow 350m south west of Furze Platt Farm in Blenheim Great Park
• Deddington Castle
• Anglo-Saxon burial mound immediately north of Over Worton church graveyard
• Tusmore medieval settlement
• Whitehill medieval settlement immediately south of Old Whitehill Farm
• Moated site E of school
• Saxon barrow 40m south east of Oxford Lodge
• Somerton village earthworks
• Ilbury Camp hillfort
• Rainsborough camp
• Roman villa
• Long barrow 730m south west of Enslow Bridge
• Ardley Wood moated ringwork
• Water gardens, avenue and an associated earthwork, east of Court Farm
• Dovecote at Rousham House
• Rectangular earthwork, Hensington
• Steane medieval village
• Somerton Manor House; earthworks and remains of hall
• Cold War structures at the former Upper Heyford Airbase
• Tithe Barn