Stopsley is a Town in the county of Bedfordshire.

Stopsley postcode: LU2 9AD

Retail in Stopsley

There are great places to visit near Stopsley including some great towns, nature reserves, ancient sites, hills, woodlands, rivers and streams, villages, historic buildings, country parks, lakes and shopping centres.

There are a several good towns in the Stopsley area like Sandy, Bedford, Luton, Dunstable, Leighton Buzzard, Cranfield, and Biggleswade.

Stopsley's best nearby nature reserves can be found at RSPB The Lodge, and Sharnbrook Summit.

There are a number of ancient sites near to Stopsley including Galley Hill Hillfort.

Stopsley is near some unmissable hills like Galley Hill Hillfort,

There are a number of woodlands near to Stopsley including The Everton Estate.

Stopsley is near some unmissable rivers and streams like River Great Ouse at Bedford,

There are a number of villages near Stopsley including Stevington, Cardington, Willington - Bedford, Whipsnade, Stewartby, Aspley Guise, and Great Barford.

There are a number of historic buildings near Stopsley including Stevington Windmill, Willington Dovecote and Stables, Bedford School Chapel, Stewartby Brickworks, Great Barford Bridge, Market Place Woburn, and Town Hall at Woburn.

There are a number of country parks near Stopsley including Priory Country Park, and Dunstable Downs and Whipsnade Estate.

Lakes to visit near Stopsley include Priory Lake.

The Mall Luton is one of Stopsley's best, nearby shopping centres to visit in Stopsley.

Stopsley History

There are some historic monuments around Stopsley:

• Moated site and associated enclosure at Rectory Farm
• Medieval village 100m west of Zouches Farm
• Rothamsted Romano-British cemetery
• Moated site north of Apsley End
• Someries Castle: a medieval magnate's residence and formal garden remains
• Moated site at Faldo Farm
• Toot Hill motte and bailey castle and shrunken medieval village at Pirton
• Barrow at Telegraph Hill
• Bowl barrow at Knocking Knoll, 640m E of Pegsdon Common Farm
• Moated Site and Associated Earthworks at Bury Farm, Sharpenhoe
• Moated site in Pegsdon Belt
• Two bowl barrows on Galley Hill, 880m north east of the golf course club house
• Dray's Ditches
• Anglo-Saxon settlement, and probable prehistoric ring ditches, west of Pirton village
• Strip lynchets on Stopsley Common
• Settlement site 200yds (180m) S of The Camp
• Dray's Ditches
• Sharpenhoe Clappers: an Iron Age promontory fort, medieval warren and associated medieval cultivation earthworks
• Ravensburgh Castle
• Bowl barrow in Tingley Field Plantation, near Pegsdon
• Fishery 500m north east of Manor Farm
• Pirton Grange moated enclosure and associated settling pond, Pirton
• Upbury moated site and associated fishponds
• Apsley Bury moated site and fishpond, south of Apsley End
• Neolithic enclosure known as Waulud's Bank