Monkston is a Town in the county of Buckinghamshire.

Retail in Monkston

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

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

Milton Keynes, Olney, High Wycombe, Buckingham, and Aylesbury are great places to visit near Monkston if you like towns.

Monkston has some unmissable parks nearby like Willen Lake, and Campbell Park.

Willen Lake, and Thorney Country Park are some of Monkston best lakes to visit near Monkston.

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

Don't miss 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's historic buildings if visiting the area around Monkston.

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

There are a several good airports in the area around Monkston like Wycombe Air Park.

Monkston History

There are some historic monuments around Monkston:

• A medieval manorial complex comprising a twin moated site, fishpond and associated earthworks 750m west of St Mary's Church
• Motte castle 200m south-east of Wavendon Manor
• Medieval manor of Simpson
• Moated site known as Caves Manor immediately east of the Manor House
• Deserted medieval settlement at Filgrave, immediately west of Rectory Farm
• Shrunken medieval village at Caldecotte
• Bradwell Bury: a moated site and associated manor house remains at Moat House
• Bradwell castle mound: a motte and bailey castle 80m north east of St. Lawrence's Church.
• Moated site, fishponds and associated earthworks, west of All Saints Church, Milton Keynes Village.
• Secklow Hundred mound: a moot at the junction of North Row and North Ninth Street.
• Moated site at Old Moat Farm
• Great Linford Brickworks
• The Toot: a motte and bailey castle and later manorial complex 450m south west of St Mary's Church
• Bradwell Abbey: a Benedictine priory, chapel and fishpond
• Moated site immediately south of Manor Farm
• Tyringham Bridge
• 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
• Site of St Martin's Chapel, Ekeney; 680m south east of Petsoe Manor Farm
• Moated site and fishponds 200m north-west of Up End
• Moated site, fishponds and associated earthworks 150m south-east of Haversham Manor
• Moated site and fishpond at Old Rectory Farm.
• Fishpond in Water Spinney 600m SE of St Giles's Church Tattenhoe
• Shrunken Medieval Village, Woughton on the Green
• Moated site known as `The Hoult' and associated field system
• Moated site, fishponds and deserted medieval village of Tattenhoe, 300m west of Home Park Farm.
• Moated site at Ivy Hall
• Moated site and associated fishpond south of Mill Lane
• Group of ring ditches and enclosures at Tyringham
• Moated site, fishpond and associated earthworks 150m west of Loughton Manor
• Moated site 70m south of Long Plantation, Hanslope Park
• Danesborough Camp: a slight univallate hillfort 420m north of The Knoll
• Moated site and fishponds at Great Woolstone
• Moated site 410m south east of Maukins
• Civil War defences in Bury Field
• Tickford Bridge
• Roman town of Magiovinium and Roman fort