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.

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

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

Taynton is near some unmissable shopping centres like Westgate Oxford,

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

There are a number of historic buildings near to Taynton including Upton House.

Taynton History

There are some historic monuments around Taynton:

• Long barrow situated in Southlawn Plain Woods
• Icomb camp
• Moated site at Manor Farm
• Settlement site
• Wyck Beacon bowl barrow
• Site of Langley Palace royal hunting lodge, an associated enclosure and later garden earthworks at Langley Farm
• Round barrow 750m north east of Eastleachdowns Farm
• Ring ditches and enclosures
• Lyneham long barrow and standing stone, 480m north east of Hill Barn
• Dean Camp hillfort
• Fifield long barrow
• Ascott d'Oyley 12th century motte and bailey castle and associated earthworks
• Iron Age fortified enclosure known as Salmonsbury Camp
• Shrunken medieval village NW of Churchill old church
• The Mount bell barrow 110m south west of Mount Farm
• Bowl barrow 120m north of Home Farm
• New Bridge over River Windrush
• Settlement site and barrows
• Medieval settlement of Widford immediately east of Manor 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
• Pain's Farm bowl barrow 30m south of Pain's Farm Cottages
• Idbury Camp hillfort
• Lad Barrow long barrow
• Romano-British villa south east of Great Barrington
• Five bowl barrows 870m north west of Eastleachdowns Farm
• Ascott Earl motte and bailey castle
• Iron Age settlement centring 500m SW of Black Bourton
• Bibury Racecourse Celtic field system
• Barrington Park Roman villa, Great Barrington
• The socket stone and step of a churchyard cross in St Andrew's churchyard, Eastleach Turville
• Roman villa and associated bath house 450m north west of Lower Field Farm
• Windrush camp
• Chessels Roman site
• Causewayed enclosure and settlement enclosures immediately north west of Shire Gate
• Squire's Clump Anglo-Saxon burial mound 500m south west of Iron Buildings
• The Roundabout hillfort, 460m west of Barter's Hill Farm
• Two bowl barrows, known as Heath Hill round barrows, 70m and 190m north east of Heath Hill
• Asthall Barrow: an Anglo-Saxon burial mound 100m SSW of Barrow Farm
• Pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows 150m north of Roustage Wood
• Pair of confluent bowl barrows 200m SSW of Bockett's Corner on Leigh Hale Plain