Ompton is a Village in the county of Nottinghamshire.

Retail in Ompton

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

There are a several good cities in the area around Ompton like Nottingham.

Nottingham Castle is a great place to visit close to Ompton if you like castles.

Historic Buildings to visit near Ompton include Nottingham Castle.

The area around Ompton's best villages can be found at Gedling.

Country Parks to visit near Ompton include Gedling Country Park.

The area around Ompton's best shopping centres can be found at Victoria Centre.

Ompton History

There are some historic monuments around Ompton:

• Slight univallate hillfort, 169m west of Combs Farm
• Cross in St Michael's churchyard
• Haughton decoy and motte and bailey castle
• Norwell Woodhouse moat and fishpond
• Moated fishpond complex with moat, fishstews, seven fishponds with sluices, ridge and furrow and a leat
• Earlshaw Hall moat
• Medieval settlement including a moated site and open field system, immediately north east and south of Hall Farm
• Gaddick Hill medieval motte and bailey castle and post-medieval manor house
• Fishponds 220m south west of St Michael's Church
• Bowl barrow 70m south of church of St Michael
• Bothamsall motte and bailey castle and hollow way
• Moated site, fishponds and decoy pond 490m north west of Park Spring Farm
• Roman vexillation fortress 310m and 530m south of Osmanthorpe Manor
• Jordan Castle: ringwork, fortified manor, hollow way, fishpond and ridge and furrow
• Rufford Abbey Cistercian monastery: monastic precinct, water-management works, pre-monastic open-field system and post-medieval building
• Motte and bailey castle and associated medieval and post-medieval manorial remains, including six fishponds
• Earthwork to E of village
• Haughton Chapel
• Roman camp 470m south of Carr Banks Farm
• Site of old hall S of Haughton Hall Farm
• Bowl barrow, 452m north west of Cameleon Lodge
• West Bridge
• Markham Moor Bridge (or 'Mirihil' Bridge)
• Three round barrows on Laxton Common