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 and shopping centres.

There are a several good ancient sites in the Alvescot area like The Rollright Stones, The King Stone, The Whispering Knights, and The Kings Men.

Places near Alvescot feature a number of interesting cities including Oxford.

Westgate Oxford is one of Alvescot's best, nearby shopping centres to visit in Alvescot.

Alvescot History

There are some historic monuments around Alvescot:

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