Gayhurst is a Village in the county of Buckinghamshire.

Retail in Gayhurst

There are great places to visit near Gayhurst including some great villages, towns, parks, lakes, shopping centres, historic buildings, country parks and airports.

The area around Gayhurst boasts some of the best villages including Haddenham, Caldecotte, Blue Bridge, New Bradwell, Tathall End, Castlethorpe, and Weston Underwood.

There are a number of towns near Gayhurst including Milton Keynes, Olney, High Wycombe, Buckingham, and Aylesbury.

Willen Lake, and Campbell Park are great places to visit near Gayhurst if you like parks.

Lakes to visit near Gayhurst include Willen Lake, and Thorney Country Park.

Don't miss The Centre:mk, and Eden Shopping Centre's shopping centres if visiting the area around Gayhurst.

There are a number of historic buildings near Gayhurst including Church of St Simon and St Jude, St Peter and St Paul - Olney, Weston Underwood, Church of St James the Great - Hanslope, The Old Gaol, and Waddesdon Manor.

There are a number of country parks near to Gayhurst including Thorney Country Park.

Wycombe Air Park is one of Gayhurst's best, nearby airports to visit in Gayhurst.

Gayhurst History

There are some historic monuments around Gayhurst:

• Bradwell castle mound: a motte and bailey castle 80m north east of St. Lawrence's Church.
• Deserted medieval settlement at Filgrave, immediately west of Rectory Farm
• Tyringham Bridge
• Olney Bridge
• Civil War defences in Bury Field
• Settlement remains of the medieval village of Horton, to the east and south of the church, including possible C18 militia works..
• Moated site and fishponds 200m north-west of Up End
• Secklow Hundred mound: a moot at the junction of North Row and North Ninth Street.
• Moated site and fishpond at Old Rectory Farm.
• Roman villa 300m south east of Newton Lodge Farm
• Bradwell Abbey: a Benedictine priory, chapel and fishpond
• Bowl barrow at junction of Crofts End and Bedford Road
• Moated site known as Caves Manor immediately east of the Manor House
• Ravenstone Priory, moats and fishponds
• Lavendon Abbey: the site of a Premonstratensian abbey, fishponds and field system at Lavendon Grange
• Great Linford Brickworks
• Remains of the church and churchyard of St Mary Magdalen
• Moated site and associated fishpond south of Mill Lane
• Moated site 70m south of Long Plantation, Hanslope Park
• Moated site, fishponds and associated earthworks 150m south-east of Haversham Manor
• The Toot: a motte and bailey castle and later manorial complex 450m south west of St Mary's Church
• Motte and bailey castle, deserted village and monastic grange at Old Wolverton
• A medieval manorial complex comprising a twin moated site, fishpond and associated earthworks 750m west of St Mary's Church
• Lavendon Castle: a motte and bailey and associated enclosures at Castle Farm
• Site revealed by aerial photography N of Easton Lodge
• Group of ring ditches and enclosures at Tyringham
• Moated site and fishponds 280m south-east of St Lawrence's Church
• Castlethorpe Castle: a motte and bailey, possible ringwork and associated earthworks 200m south-east of Castlethorpe Lodge
• Moated site with associated earthworks, 770m south of St Mary's Church, south of the junction of Childs Way and Fulmer Street
• Wolverton iron trunk aqueduct
• Moated site, fishponds and associated earthworks, west of All Saints Church, Milton Keynes Village.
• Roman villa SE of Cosgrove Hall
• Medieval manor of Simpson
• Moated site, fishpond and associated earthworks 150m west of Loughton Manor
• The Bury: a ringwork and associated earthworks 100m north of Lavendon Church
• Tickford Bridge
• Bradwell Bury: a moated site and associated manor house remains at Moat House
• Motte castle 200m south-east of Wavendon Manor
• Shrunken Medieval Village, Woughton on the Green
• Moated site and fishponds at Great Woolstone
• Roman site at Olney