Great Horwood is a Village in the county of Buckinghamshire.

Retail in Great Horwood

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

There are a number of villages near Great Horwood including Haddenham, Caldecotte, Blue Bridge, New Bradwell, Tathall End, Castlethorpe, and Weston Underwood.

Milton Keynes, Olney, High Wycombe, Buckingham, and Aylesbury are some of Great Horwood best towns to visit near Great Horwood.

There are a several good parks in the Great Horwood area like Willen Lake, and Campbell Park.

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

Shopping Centres to visit near Great Horwood include The Centre:mk, and Eden Shopping Centre.

The area around Great Horwood features a number of interesting historic buildings 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.

Places near Great Horwood feature a number of interesting country parks including Thorney Country Park.

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

Great Horwood History

There are some historic monuments around Great Horwood:

• Moated site, fishponds and deserted medieval village of Tattenhoe, 300m west of Home Park Farm.
• Norbury: a slight univallate hillfort immediately east of Padbury Mill
• Preceptory of the Knights Hospitallers, associated fishponds, medieval settlement of Hogshaw and the site of the medieval church of St John the Baptist, 200m south of Hogshaw Farm
• Roman villa SE of Cosgrove Hall
• Bradwell Abbey: a Benedictine priory, chapel and fishpond
• Remains of the church and churchyard of St Mary Magdalen
• Motte castle and associated remains of the medieval village of Cublington, immediately west of Ridings Way
• Medieval hamlet of Littlecote
• Quainton medieval standing cross
• Motte and bailey castle, deserted village and monastic grange at Old Wolverton
• Bradwell castle mound: a motte and bailey castle 80m north east of St. Lawrence's Church.
• Moated site 200m north east of St Nicholas's Church
• Wolverton iron trunk aqueduct
• Deserted village (site of) at Fulbrook Farm
• Snelshall Benedictine Priory: a moated priory site and fishponds north of Briary Plantation
• Two Roman barrows 200m ENE of Thornborough Bridge
• A medieval manorial complex comprising a twin moated site, fishpond and associated earthworks 750m west of St Mary's Church
• Fishpond in Water Spinney 600m SE of St Giles's Church Tattenhoe
• Bradwell Bury: a moated site and associated manor house remains at Moat House
• Moated site 80m west of Cedars Farm
• Thornborough Bridge
• The Grove Close moated site.
• Moated site with associated earthworks, 770m south of St Mary's Church, south of the junction of Childs Way and Fulmer Street
• Deserted village (site of) at Creslow
• Deserted village (site of) at Denham Lodge
• Moated site, fishpond and associated earthworks 150m west of Loughton Manor
• A bowl barrow on Church Hill 200m south of church
• The Toot: a motte and bailey castle and later manorial complex 450m south west of St Mary's Church
• A slight univallate hillfort 600m south east of Home Farm
• Bolebec Castle, a motte and bailey castle 300m west of St John's Church