Compton and Shawford is a Town in the county of Hampshire.

Retail in Compton and Shawford

There are great places to visit near Compton and Shawford including some great cities, towns, airports, villages, historic buildings, shopping centres and lakes.

Don't miss Portsmouth, and Winchester's cities if visiting the area around Compton and Shawford.

Compton and Shawford's best nearby towns can be found at Aldershot, Lymington, Gosport, Basingstoke, and Southampton.

Airports to visit near Compton and Shawford include Blackbushe Airport, and Southampton Airport.

The area around Compton and Shawford features a number of interesting villages including Hambledon, Southwick, and Milford-on-Sea.

Fort Blockhouse is a great place to visit close to Compton and Shawford if you like historic buildings.

Shopping Centres to visit near Compton and Shawford include The Malls - Basingstoke, and Westquay.

Compton and Shawford is near some unmissable lakes like Southwick Park Lake,

Compton and Shawford History

There are some historic monuments around Compton and Shawford:

• Park pale to the north, west and south west of Hursley Park
• Ashley Wood camp
• Late Iron Age settlement site N of Grace's Farm
• Winchester city wall and associated monuments
• Two bowl barrows 200m east of Twyford Pumping Station
• Bowl barrow at the east end of Magdalen Hill Down
• Roman road E of St Catherine's Hill
• Park pale at Marwell, south of Fisher's Pond
• Castle Hill
• St Catherine's Hill hillfort
• Site of St Gertrude's Chapel
• Iron Age field system, banjo enclosure and Romano-British villa, 500m east of Woodham Farm.
• Hyde Abbey gateway
• Section of Roman road 250yds (230m) long SW of Titlark Farm
• The Ring earthwork
• Round barrow cemetery on Magdalen Hill Down
• Roman corn drier S of Tin Wood
• Oliver Cromwell's Battery: Iron Age enclosure reused as a Civil War battery
• Two bowl barrows 120m north-west of Texas
• Park pale at Marwell, north of Thistle Ridge Farm
• Roman villa in Cow Down Copse
• City Cross or 'Butter Cross'
• Park pale at Marwell, south-east of Cowleaze Copse
• Pumping station
• Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Worthy Park
• Worthy Down ditch
• Bowl barrow 75m west of Itchen Cottages
• Three round barrows 500m WNW of Flowerdown House
• Two round barrows 100m NE of Itchen Abbas Roman Villa
• Romano-British enclosure and later hollow ways on Twyford Down
• Merdon Castle
• Two round barrows on Crawley Down, 830m NNE of Warren House
• Bowl barrow 630m NNE of Littleton House
• The West Gate
• Wolvesey Palace
• Three bowl barrows on Fawley Down, 580m west of Cheesefoot Head
• Two bowl barrows 200m north of Attwoods Drove Farm
• Bowl barrow 70m north of Oliver Cromwell's Battery
• Long barrow 400m south of Sanctuary Farm
• Cutthorn
• Bowl barrow 1km east of Farley Mount
• Moated site at Otterbourne Manor
• Three round barrows at Crawley Clump
• Long barrow 250m south-west of Warren Farm
• Bowl barrow on Ashley Down Plantation, 1010m south west of Forest of Bere Farm
• The Kings Gate
• Winchester Castle
• Old wall and Jacobean monument in Hyde Close
• Winchester Cathedral Close
• Park pale at Marwell, 250m north-west of Marwell Manor
• Moated site 300m south-east of Compton House
• Alresford Drive earthworks, Avington
• Earthwork 1/2 mile (810m) NW of Larkwhistle Farm
• Bowl barrow on Telegraph Hill
• Romano-British farmstead and associated field system on Teg Down
• Hilltop enclosure 190m north west of Farley Mount
• St Peter's Church, Lainston House
• Roman villa and earlier prehistoric settlement 400m W of Lone Farm, Itchen
• Twyford Roman villa
• Long barrow 1km south of Larkwhistle Farm
• Lynchets on north west spur of Twyford Down
• City Bridge at the junction of High Street and Bridge Street
• Moated site at Marwell Manor
• Group of round barrows at Withering Corner
• Cross dyke 720m west of Cheesefoot Head
• Bowl barrow on Ashley Down Plantation, 1000m south west of Forest of Bere Farm
• Park pale at Marwell, 400m west of Marwell Manor
• Bowl barrow 200m west of Moorgreen House
• Long barrow 500m south-west of Sanctuary Farm