Spelsbury is a Town in the county of Oxfordshire.

Retail in Spelsbury

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

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

There are a number of cities near to Spelsbury including Oxford.

The area around Spelsbury's best shopping centres can be found at Westgate Oxford.

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

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

Spelsbury History

There are some historic monuments around Spelsbury:

• Lee's Rest Earthwork: a probable Romano-Celtic temple 200m north east of Lee's Rest Farm
• Bowl barrow 150m east of Waterman's Lodge: one of a pair of Bronze Age barrows on the western edge of Wychwood Forest
• Medieval settlement and church of Asterleigh
• Section of the north Oxfordshire Grim's Ditch west of Common Farm
• Medieval moat surrounding High Lodge, 400m north east of Kingstanding Farm
• Stonesfield Roman villa
• Bowl barrow 270m east of Spelsburydown Farm barns
• Hawk Stone standing stone 700m south of Claridges Barn
• Fawler Roman villa
• Callow Hill Roman villa
• Leafield Barrow: a motte castle 220m north west of St Michael and All Angels Church
• Iron Age enclosed settlement and part of a trackway 150m north east of the King Stone
• Chipping Norton motte and bailey castle, and fishpond
• Pump Copse earthwork
• Ascott d'Oyley 12th century motte and bailey castle and associated earthworks
• Pair of confluent bowl barrows 200m SSW of Bockett's Corner on Leigh Hale Plain
• Site of 19th century pottery factory NW of Leafield
• Bowl barrow 500m south west of Hill Farm, Lidstone
• Knollbury camp hillfort
• Bowl barrow 400m north west of Ranger's Lodge in Cornbury Park
• Bowl barrow in Kingswood Brake, 450m WNW of Wood Farm
• Bowl barrow 150m north-west of North Lodge, Cornbury Park
• Section of the north Oxfordshire Grim's Ditch running east from the River Evenlode opposite Cornbury Park
• Linear earthworks east of Callow Hill Roman villa forming part of the north Oxfordshire Grim's Ditch
• Bowl barrow 60m north of Wood Farm
• Minster Lovell Hall
• 1km section of the north Oxfordshire Grim's Ditch running from Out Wood to Berring's Wood
• Section of the north Oxfordshire Grim's Ditch 350m ENE of Ditchley House
• Hoar Stone portal dolmen situated in Enstone Firs
• Earthwork at Lowbarrow Farm
• Civil War artillery fieldwork 370m NNW of Park Farm, Cornbury Park
• Oaklands Farm Roman villa
• Pair of Bronze Age round barrows and surrounding Civil War fieldworks 180m north-west of Park Farm
• Ascott Earl motte and bailey castle
• Skew Plantation bowl barrow
• Long barrow 250m south of Ellen's Lodge in Shilcott Wood on the Ditchley Park Estate
• Bowl barrow 80m south east of Spelsburydown Farm barns
• Taston standing stone 12m north of Taston village cross
• One of a pair of bowl barrows 370m NW of High Lodge
• Long barrow situated in Southlawn Plain Woods
• Section of the north Oxfordshire Grim's Ditch running into the northern edge of Shilcott Wood on the Ditchley Estate
• Long barrow 150m west of Churchill Copse in Wychwood Forest
• Bowl barrow 525m north of Barter's Hill Farm
• 145m section of the north Oxfordshire Grim's Ditch situated 200m west of Grimsdyke Farm
• North Leigh Roman villa 300m NNE of Upper Riding Farm
• Swerford Castle
• Pair of bowl barrows immediately south of Blindwell Wood
• Bowl barrow 200m west of Hawksnest Copse in Wychwood Forest
• Dovecote 125m north of Minster Lovell Hall
• Great house site, garden earthworks and associated remains immediately north, west and south of St Mary's Church
• Roman villa and associated bath house 450m north west of Lower Field Farm
• Ditchley Park Roman villa and part of an associated field system 450m ENE of Lodge Farm
• Walcot ornamental fishponds and garden earthworks
• Rectangular earthwork enclosure in Hill Wood, 650m south east of Grimsdyke Farm
• Pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows situated on Maple Hill in Wychwood Forest
• The Rollright Stones
• Lowland Barn Romano-British farmstead 200m north west of Bury Hill
• A pair of Roman camps and a section of a post-medieval sunken road situated in the north eastern corner of Cornbury Park
• Waterman's Lodge bowl barrow, one of a pair of Bronze Age barrows on the western edge of Wychwood Forest
• Pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows 150m north of Roustage Wood
• Gagingwell cross, 80m west of Abbey Farm
• Taston village cross
• Pair of bowl barrows at Hawksnest Copse in Wychwood Forest
• 1100m section of the north Oxfordshire Grim's Ditch at Model Farm on the Ditchley Park Estate
• Besbury Lane bowl barrow, 450m north east of Conduit Farm
• Over Chalford medieval settlement
• Lyneham long barrow and standing stone, 480m north east of Hill Barn
• Squire's Clump Anglo-Saxon burial mound 500m south west of Iron Buildings
• Slatepits Copse long barrow, 1km SE of High Lodge in Wychwood Forest
• One of a pair of bowl barrows 370m north-west of High Lodge
• Beaconsfield Farm Roman villa
• Site of Langley Palace royal hunting lodge, an associated enclosure and later garden earthworks at Langley Farm
• Nether Chalford medieval settlement
• Barn at Rectory Farm, Church Enstone
• Over Norton bowl barrow 150m north west of the intersection between the A361 and the A34(T)
• Brize's Lodge bowl barrow, 400m east of Gospel Oak
• Bowl barrow situated in Round Clump, Ditchley Park
• The Roundabout hillfort, 460m west of Barter's Hill Farm
• Barrow Place earthwork, 370m south west of Lodge Farm, Ditchley
• 380m section of the north Oxfordshire Grim's Ditch 200m ENE of Kiddington Lodge