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, villages, lakes, towns, historic buildings, shopping centres and airports.

Portsmouth, and Winchester are great places to visit near Compton and Shawford if you like cities.

Compton and Shawford has some unmissable villages nearby like Southwick, and Milford-on-Sea.

Don't miss Southwick Park Lake's lakes if visiting the area around Compton and Shawford.

Compton and Shawford has some unmissable towns nearby like Aldershot, Lymington, Gosport, Basingstoke, and Southampton.

There are a several good historic buildings in the area around Compton and Shawford like Fort Blockhouse.

The area around Compton and Shawford features a number of interesting shopping centres including The Malls - Basingstoke, and Westquay.

The area around Compton and Shawford boasts some of the best airports including Southampton Airport, and Blackbushe Airport.

Compton and Shawford History

There are some historic monuments around Compton and Shawford:

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