Tongwell is a Town in the county of Buckinghamshire.

Tongwell postcode: MK15 8JH

Retail in Tongwell

There are great places to visit near Tongwell 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 great places to visit near Tongwell if you like villages.

Don't miss Milton Keynes, Olney, High Wycombe, Buckingham, and Aylesbury's towns if visiting the area around Tongwell.

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

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

The Centre:mk, and Eden Shopping Centre are great places to visit near Tongwell if you like shopping centres.

Tongwell's best nearby historic buildings can be found at 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.

Thorney Country Park is one of Tongwell's best, nearby country parks to visit in Tongwell.

The area around Tongwell's best airports can be found at Wycombe Air Park.

Tongwell History

There are some historic monuments around Tongwell:

• Moated site with associated earthworks, 770m south of St Mary's Church, south of the junction of Childs Way and Fulmer Street
• Site of St Martin's Chapel, Ekeney; 680m south east of Petsoe Manor Farm
• Shrunken medieval village at Caldecotte
• Moated site and fishponds 280m south-east of St Lawrence's Church
• Moated site, fishponds and associated earthworks, west of All Saints Church, Milton Keynes Village.
• Bowl barrow at junction of Crofts End and Bedford Road
• Moated site known as `The Hoult' and associated field system
• Deserted medieval settlement at Filgrave, immediately west of Rectory Farm
• Bradwell Bury: a moated site and associated manor house remains at Moat House
• Bradwell Abbey: a Benedictine priory, chapel and fishpond
• A bowl barrow on Church Hill 200m south of church
• Motte castle 200m south-east of Wavendon Manor
• Shrunken Medieval Village, Woughton on the Green
• Group of ring ditches and enclosures at Tyringham
• The Toot: a motte and bailey castle and later manorial complex 450m south west of St Mary's Church
• Medieval manor of Simpson
• Roman town of Magiovinium and Roman fort
• Moated site, fishponds and associated earthworks 150m south-east of Haversham Manor
• Moated site, fishponds and deserted medieval village of Tattenhoe, 300m west of Home Park Farm.
• Danesborough Camp: a slight univallate hillfort 420m north of The Knoll
• Turvey Bridge
• Moated site and fishponds at Great Woolstone
• Tickford Bridge
• Moated site and fishpond at Old Rectory Farm.
• Olney Bridge
• Civil War defences in Bury Field
• Moated site known as Caves Manor immediately east of the Manor House
• Secklow Hundred mound: a moot at the junction of North Row and North Ninth Street.
• Roman site at Olney
• Moated site at Old Moat Farm
• Bradwell castle mound: a motte and bailey castle 80m north east of St. Lawrence's Church.
• Moated site and associated fishpond south of Mill Lane
• Snelshall Benedictine Priory: a moated priory site and fishponds north of Briary Plantation
• Moated site, fishpond and associated earthworks 150m west of Loughton Manor
• Wood Farm moat
• Moated site 70m south of Long Plantation, Hanslope Park
• Fishpond in Water Spinney 600m SE of St Giles's Church Tattenhoe
• Great Linford Brickworks
• Moated site and fishponds 200m north-west of Up End
• Roman villa 300m south east of Newton Lodge Farm
• 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
• Tyringham Bridge
• Ravenstone Priory, moats and fishponds