Taynton is a Village in the county of Oxfordshire.

Retail in Taynton

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

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

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

There are a several good shopping centres in the area around Taynton like Westgate Oxford.

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

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

Taynton History

There are some historic monuments around Taynton:

• Lad Barrow long barrow
• The socket stone and step of a churchyard cross in St Andrew's churchyard, Eastleach Turville
• Windrush camp
• Ring ditches and enclosures
• Chessels Roman site
• Fifield long barrow
• Iron Age settlement centring 500m SW of Black Bourton
• Medieval settlement of Widford immediately east of Manor Farm
• New Bridge over River Windrush
• The Mount bell barrow 110m south west of Mount Farm
• Site of Langley Palace royal hunting lodge, an associated enclosure and later garden earthworks at Langley Farm
• The socket stone and part of the shaft of a churchyard cross in St Michael and St Martin's churchyard, Eastleach Martin
• 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
• Wyck Beacon bowl barrow
• Iron Age fortified enclosure known as Salmonsbury Camp
• Two bowl barrows, known as Heath Hill round barrows, 70m and 190m north east of Heath Hill
• Pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows 150m north of Roustage Wood
• Barrington Park Roman villa, Great Barrington
• Moated site at Manor Farm
• Squire's Clump Anglo-Saxon burial mound 500m south west of Iron Buildings
• Causewayed enclosure and settlement enclosures immediately north west of Shire Gate
• Romano-British villa south east of Great Barrington
• Five bowl barrows 870m north west of Eastleachdowns Farm
• Bowl barrow 120m north of Home Farm
• Roman villa and associated bath house 450m north west of Lower Field Farm
• Lyneham long barrow and standing stone, 480m north east of Hill Barn
• Ascott d'Oyley 12th century motte and bailey castle and associated earthworks
• Shrunken medieval village NW of Churchill old church
• The Roundabout hillfort, 460m west of Barter's Hill Farm
• Long barrow situated in Southlawn Plain Woods
• Ascott Earl motte and bailey castle
• Icomb camp
• Pain's Farm bowl barrow 30m south of Pain's Farm Cottages
• Dean Camp hillfort
• Round barrow 750m north east of Eastleachdowns Farm
• Bibury Racecourse Celtic field system
• Settlement site and barrows
• Pair of confluent bowl barrows 200m SSW of Bockett's Corner on Leigh Hale Plain
• Settlement site
• Idbury Camp hillfort