Alvescot is a Village in the county of Oxfordshire.

Retail in Alvescot

There are great places to visit near Alvescot including some great ancient sites, cities, shopping centres, towns and historic buildings.

Alvescot's best nearby ancient sites can be found at The Rollright Stones, The King Stone, The Whispering Knights, and The Kings Men.

There are a several good cities in the area around Alvescot like Oxford.

There are a number of shopping centres near to Alvescot including Westgate Oxford.

Alvescot is near some unmissable towns like Banbury,

Don't miss Upton House's historic buildings if visiting the area around Alvescot.

Alvescot History

There are some historic monuments around Alvescot:

• Settlement site
• Barrington Park Roman villa, Great Barrington
• Ring ditches and enclosures
• Trackways 500yds (460m) E of St George's Church
• Earthwork at Lowbarrow Farm
• Multi-period settlement, cemetery, and ceremonial complex W of Lechlade
• Pain's Farm bowl barrow 30m south of Pain's Farm Cottages
• Medieval settlement of Widford immediately east of Manor Farm
• Medieval settlement remains at Inglesham
• Minster Lovell Hall
• Shipton Barrow: a bowl barrow, Saxon barrow, and associated earthwork enclosure 350m north of Downs Lodge
• Roman villa and associated bath house 450m north west of Lower Field Farm
• Pair of confluent bowl barrows 200m SSW of Bockett's Corner on Leigh Hale Plain
• Ring ditches
• Site of 19th century pottery factory NW of Leafield
• Leafield Barrow: a motte castle 220m north west of St Michael and All Angels Church
• Iron Age settlement centring 500m SW of Black Bourton
• Tithe barn
• Settlement 700m NE of Lechlade
• Burroway enclosure
• Earthwork in Ewedown Copse
• Halfpenny Bridge
• Enclosures 1500m SE of Little Faringdon
• Long mortuary enclosure and associated barrow 120m south of Rushey Weir
• Causewayed enclosure and settlement enclosures immediately north west of Shire Gate
• Asthall Barrow: an Anglo-Saxon burial mound 100m SSW of Barrow Farm
• Roman villa 600yds (550m) NE of Great Lemhill Farm
• Causewayed enclosure and associated features on the south bank of the River Thames, immediately west of Rushey Weir
• Rectangular enclosures 1100yds (1010m) NW of Mount Owen Farm
• Radcot Bridge
• Pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows 150m north of Roustage Wood
• Iron Age and Romano British settlement remains and associated features, 1km south east of Leaze Farm
• Long barrow situated in Southlawn Plain Woods
• St John's Hospital
• Romano-British villa south east of Great Barrington
• Enclosures and trackways
• Interrupted ditch system
• Churchyard cross, 10m south east of St John the Baptist's Church
• Badbury camp
• Wyke monastic grange and section of 18th century turnpike road, 780m south of Tudor Farm
• Pair of bowl barrows immediately south of Blindwell Wood
• Lew village cross
• Dovecote 125m north of Minster Lovell Hall
• Anglo-Saxon burial mound 450m north west of University Farm