Watchfield is a Village in the county of Oxfordshire.

Retail in Watchfield

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

The area around Watchfield boasts some of the best ancient sites including The Rollright Stones, The King Stone, The Whispering Knights, and The Kings Men.

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

Westgate Oxford is a great place to visit close to Watchfield if you like shopping centres.

Towns to visit near Watchfield include Banbury.

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

Watchfield History

There are some historic monuments around Watchfield:

• Hall Place
• Bronze Age bowl barrow and a pair of Anglo-Saxon burial mounds 70m south of the White Horse on Whitehorse Hill
• The White Horse hill figure 170m NNE of Uffington Castle on Whitehorse Hill
• Radcot Bridge
• St John's Hospital
• Uffington Castle: a univallate hillfort immediately north of the Ridgeway on Whitehorse Hill
• Disc barrow 780m north east of North Farm
• Medieval settlement remains at Sevenhampton
• Linear boundary earthwork west of Liddington Castle
• Ring ditches
• Roman villa 630m south west of Starveall Farm
• Highworth circle 470m north east of North Leaze Farm
• Tithe barn
• Two Highworth circles 600m south east of North Leaze Farm
• Highworth circle 200m north east of Common Farm
• Four Highworth circles 150m north east of Pickett's Copse
• Burroway enclosure
• Four Highworth circles east of North Leaze Farm
• Dragon Hill
• Highworth circle 200m south east of Common Farm
• Two Highworth circles 250m and 325m north of Eastrop Farm
• Bowl barrow on Hinton Downs
• Settlement 700m NE of Lechlade
• Highworth circle 520m north west of North Leaze Farm
• Highworth circle 350m north east of Common Farm
• Settlement site
• Bowl barrow 280m north of Downs Barn
• Bowl barrow 150m north of Half Moon Wood
• Three Highworth circles 600m east of North Leaze Farm
• Fognam Clump and adjacent field system
• Bowl barrow 350m south-west of Harley Bushes, Bishopstone Downs
• Medieval settlement and associated ridge and furrow south-west of Eastrop Farm
• Maddle Farm Roman settlement
• Enclosures and trackways
• Stone circle immediately north east of Day House, Coate
• Site of Roman town, W of Wanborough House
• Badbury camp
• Multi-period settlement, cemetery, and ceremonial complex W of Lechlade
• Bowl barrow 85m north east of Day House Cottages
• Churchyard cross, 10m south east of St John the Baptist's Church
• Hardwell Camp promontory fort
• Wyke monastic grange and section of 18th century turnpike road, 780m south of Tudor Farm
• Three round barrows forming the core of a dispersed barrow cemetery on Idstone Down
• Bourton village cross
• Neolithic long barrow and Romano-British inhumation cemetery 70m north of Uffington Castle on Whitehorse Hill
• Liddington Castle
• Watchfield Anglo-Saxon cemetery
• Bowl barrow 200m north of Downs Barn
• Little Coxwell camp
• Alfred's Castle univallate hillfort
• Lynchets 850m west of Ridgeway Farm
• Long barrow 700m north of Liddington Warren Farm
• Sites near Manor Ham Barn
• Trackways 500yds (460m) E of St George's Church
• Fognam Clump field system
• Enclosures 1500m SE of Little Faringdon
• Wayland's Smithy chambered long barrow, including an earlier barrow and Iron Age and Roman boundary ditches
• Boundary ditch E of Near Down
• Halfpenny Bridge
• Medieval settlement remains immediately south east of Fresden Farm
• Iron Age and Romano British settlement remains and associated features, 1km south east of Leaze Farm
• Bowl barrow 850m north west of North Farm
• Medieval settlement remains at Inglesham