Caunton is a Village in the county of Nottinghamshire.

Retail in Caunton

There are great places to visit near Caunton including some great cities, castles, historic buildings, villages, country parks and shopping centres.

The area close to Caunton boasts some of the best cities including Nottingham.

Castles to visit near Caunton include Nottingham Castle.

Caunton is near some unmissable historic buildings like Nottingham Castle,

Don't miss Gedling's villages if visiting the area around Caunton.

There are a number of country parks near to Caunton including Gedling Country Park.

Victoria Centre is one of Caunton's best, nearby shopping centres to visit in Caunton.

Caunton History

There are some historic monuments around Caunton:

• Three round barrows on Laxton Common
• Castle Hill
• Norwell Woodhouse moat and fishpond
• Civil War redoubt 680m north west of Dairy Farm
• Standing cross 140m north of The Old Hall
• Rolleston manor: three moats, eight fishponds with sluices, ridge and furrow and a leat
• Jordan Castle: ringwork, fortified manor, hollow way, fishpond and ridge and furrow
• Averham moat and enclosure
• Gaddick Hill medieval motte and bailey castle and post-medieval manor house
• Cross in St Michael's churchyard
• Roman camp 750m east of Church Cottages
• Willoughby deserted medieval village, post-medieval moated manor, church, six fishponds, ridge and furrow and hollow way
• Moat, three fishponds, enclosures, hollow way and part of a road at Hall Yard
• Gun platform 440m south east of Muskham Bridge
• Fishponds 220m south west of St Michael's Church
• Site discovered by aerial photography NNE of village
• Iron Age settlement
• Site of Ad Pontem, Stoke by Newark
• Civil War Sconce 150m west of Muskham Bridge
• Civil War fieldwork on Crankley Point
• Hawton moated site, fishpond, Civil War redoubt and ridge and furrow
• Rectangular barrows at North Muskham
• Standing cross known as Beaumond Cross
• Roman vexillation fortress 310m and 530m south of Osmanthorpe Manor
• Civil War sconce 650m north west of Devon Bridge
• Settlement site at Morton
• Site of pit alignments
• Civil War town defences within the Friary Garden
• Bowl barrow 160m south east of Wharf Farm
• Medieval settlement and remains of open fields immediately west of East Stoke village
• Moated site, fishponds and decoy pond 490m north west of Park Spring Farm
• Civil War redoubt 550m south east of Valley Farm
• Civil War redoubt 580m ENE of sugar refinery
• Standing cross 300m north of Trent Farm
• Moated site 750m north west of Dairy Farm
• Queen's Sconce
• Bowl barrow 70m south of church of St Michael
• Motte and bailey castle and associated medieval and post-medieval manorial remains, including six fishponds
• Newark town wall (Lombard Street)
• Newark Castle
• Earlshaw Hall moat
• Little Carlton medieval village and part of the meadow field system
• Settlement 3/4 mile (1198m) W of Cromwell Village
• Civil War redoubt on Crankley Point
• Old Hall moat and two fishponds
• Roman villa complex and Anglo-Saxon cemetery, Southwell
• Moated fishpond complex with moat, fishstews, seven fishponds with sluices, ridge and furrow and a leat
• Archbishop's Palace