Oakfield is a Town in the county of Isle of Wight.

Oakfield postcode: PO33 1GD

Retail in Oakfield

There are great places to visit near Oakfield including some great villages, towns, beaches, geological features, historic buildings, ruins, hiking areas and castles.

Oakfield's best nearby villages can be found at Bembridge, Totland, Carisbrooke, Fishbourne, Wootton Bridge, St Helens - Isle of Wight, and Shanklin Old Village.

Oakfield's best nearby towns can be found at Newport - Isle of Wight, Ryde, Cowes, Shanklin, Sandown, and Yarmouth.

Beaches to visit near Oakfield include Compton Bay and Downs, Totland, Whitecliff Bay, and Compton Bay.

Compton Bay and Downs, and The Needles are great places to visit near Oakfield if you like geological features.

Fort Victoria, Carisbrooke Castle, St Helens Duver, The Needles Lighthouse, and The Needles Battery are some of Oakfield best historic buildings to visit near Oakfield.

The area around Oakfield boasts some of the best ruins including Culver Battery, and Carisbrooke Castle.

There are a several good hiking areas in the area around Oakfield like Culver Down.

Castles to visit near Oakfield include Carisbrooke Castle.

Oakfield History

There are some historic monuments around Oakfield:

• Sandown Barrack Battery
• Quarr Abbey
• No 1 Battery, Stokes Bay Lines
• Bowl barrow on Nunwell Down known as The Devil's Punchbowl
• Puckpool mortar battery
• St Helen's Fort
• Monastic grange at Haseley Manor
• Steyne Wood Battery
• Motte and bailey castle near Apple Dumpling Bridge, south of Rowner
• Two bowl barrows forming part of a Bronze Age barrow cemetery, and part of a field system east of Eaglehead Copse
• Bowl barrow 275m north west of sea mark, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Ashey Down
• Downend Romano-British villa
• Bowl barrow 110m north west of sea mark, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Ashey Down
• Former Board of Ordnance Gunwharf, HMS Vernon
• No. 5 Battery, Stokes Bay Lines
• Three bowl barrows 220m WSW of sea mark, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Ashey Down
• Fortifications S of Trinity Church
• A group of 11 round barrows forming part of a Bronze Age cemetery, and part of a field system east of Eaglehead Copse
• Bembridge Fort
• Bowl barrow 370m east of Eaglehead Copse, forming part of a Bronze Age barrow cemetery
• Southsea Castle
• Bowl barrow 220m east of Eaglehead Copse, forming part of a Bronze Age barrow cemetery
• Bowl barrow on Arreton Down
• Gunboat Traverser System
• Bowl barrow 290m north east of sea mark, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Ashey Down
• Earthwork defences at Priddy's Hard
• Yaverland Battery, 660m south of Yaverland Church
• Fort Brockhurst
• Portsmouth Garrison church
• Fortifications N of Mumby Road
• Bowl barrow and part of a later enclosure 490m north east of sea mark, the barrow forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Ashey Down
• Bowl barrow known as Michael Morey's Hump, and a Highway Commission barrier on Gallows Hill
• Fort Elson
• Portsmouth Dockyard, the Docks
• Horse Sand Fort
• Ashey Down Sea Mark
• Fort Monckton
• Bowl barrow 340m east of Eaglehead Copse, forming part of a Bronze Age barrow cemetery
• Two bowl barrows 180m WNW of Puck House, Fishbourne
• Bowl barrow 390m east of Eaglehead Copse, forming part of a Bronze Age barrow cemetery
• Fort Grange
• Long Curtain, King's Bastion and Spur Redoubt
• Fort Blockhouse
• Portsmouth Dockyard, the Block Mills and Stores 35 and 36
• Three pillow mounds 540m north east of sea mark on Ashey Down
• Brading Roman villa
• Two fishponds associated with Quarr Abbey at Puckers Copse, Newnham
• Two bowl barrows 130m south west of sea mark, forming part of a Bronze age round barrow cemtery on Ashey Down
• Spitbank Fort
• Gilkicker fort
• Bowl barrow 280m WNW of sea mark, forming part of a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery on Ashey Down
• Point Battery including King Edward's Tower and Square Tower
• Two pillow mounds 400m ENE of sea mark on Ashey Down
• Three pillow mounds 810m NNE of Kern Farm
• Medieval settlement 100m south east and 350m north east of East Ashey Manor Farm
• Bowl barrow on Culver Down
• Field system on Brading Down
• Nine barrows and part of a later enclosure 350m north east of sea mark: the barrows forming part of a round barrow cemetery on Ashey Down