Loughton is a Town in the county of Buckinghamshire.

Loughton postcode: MK5 8HQ

Retail in Loughton

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

Haddenham, Caldecotte, Blue Bridge, New Bradwell, Tathall End, Castlethorpe, and Weston Underwood are some of Loughton best villages to visit near Loughton.

Towns to visit near Loughton include Milton Keynes, Olney, High Wycombe, Buckingham, and Aylesbury.

Willen Lake, and Campbell Park are some of Loughton best parks to visit near Loughton.

Loughton has some unmissable lakes nearby like Willen Lake, and Thorney Country Park.

There are a number of shopping centres near Loughton including The Centre:mk, and Eden Shopping Centre.

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 are some of Loughton best historic buildings to visit near Loughton.

The area close to Loughton boasts some of the best country parks including Thorney Country Park.

There are a number of airports near to Loughton including Wycombe Air Park.

Loughton History

There are some historic monuments around Loughton:

• Snelshall Benedictine Priory: a moated priory site and fishponds north of Briary Plantation
• Remains of the church and churchyard of St Mary Magdalen
• Bradwell Abbey: a Benedictine priory, chapel and fishpond
• Group of ring ditches and enclosures at Tyringham
• Roman town of Magiovinium and Roman fort
• Shrunken medieval village at Caldecotte
• Moated site known as Caves Manor immediately east of the Manor House
• Fishpond in Water Spinney 600m SE of St Giles's Church Tattenhoe
• Bradwell castle mound: a motte and bailey castle 80m north east of St. Lawrence's Church.
• Moated site 80m west of Cedars Farm
• Moated site, fishponds and associated earthworks 150m south-east of Haversham Manor
• Moated site, fishpond and associated earthworks 150m west of Loughton Manor
• The Toot: a motte and bailey castle and later manorial complex 450m south west of St Mary's Church
• A bowl barrow on Church Hill 200m south of church
• Wolverton iron trunk aqueduct
• Moated site with associated earthworks, 770m south of St Mary's Church, south of the junction of Childs Way and Fulmer Street
• Bowl barrow at junction of Crofts End and Bedford Road
• Tyringham Bridge
• Deserted medieval settlement at Filgrave, immediately west of Rectory Farm
• Secklow Hundred mound: a moot at the junction of North Row and North Ninth Street.
• Civil War defences in Bury Field
• Moated site and fishponds at Great Woolstone
• Moated site 70m south of Long Plantation, Hanslope Park
• Moated site, fishponds and associated earthworks, west of All Saints Church, Milton Keynes Village.
• Motte and bailey castle, deserted village and monastic grange at Old Wolverton
• Medieval manor of Simpson
• Tickford Bridge
• Roman villa SE of Cosgrove Hall
• Shrunken Medieval Village, Woughton on the Green
• Moated site and associated fishpond south of Mill Lane
• Bradwell Bury: a moated site and associated manor house remains at Moat House
• A medieval manorial complex comprising a twin moated site, fishpond and associated earthworks 750m west of St Mary's Church
• Moated site, fishponds and deserted medieval village of Tattenhoe, 300m west of Home Park Farm.
• Moated site 200m north east of St Nicholas's Church
• Castlethorpe Castle: a motte and bailey, possible ringwork and associated earthworks 200m south-east of Castlethorpe Lodge
• Great Linford Brickworks
• Moated site and fishpond at Old Rectory Farm.