Bessels Leigh is a Village in the county of Oxfordshire.

Retail in Bessels Leigh

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

Bessels Leigh has some unmissable ancient sites nearby like The Rollright Stones, The King Stone, The Whispering Knights, and The Kings Men.

Oxford is a great place to visit close to Bessels Leigh if you like cities.

There are a several good shopping centres in the area around Bessels Leigh like Westgate Oxford.

Banbury is one of Bessels Leigh's best, nearby towns to visit in Bessels Leigh.

Places near Bessels Leigh feature a number of interesting historic buildings including Upton House.

Bessels Leigh History

There are some historic monuments around Bessels Leigh:

• Culham Bridge
• Settlement site
• Ring ditches, barrows and associated enclosures, Port Meadow
• Swinford Bridge
• Eynsham Abbey (site of)
• Eynsham market cross
• Oxford Castle and earlier settlement remains
• Rewley Abbey
• Complex of rectangular enclosures, ring ditches and tracks
• Sites discovered by aerial photography, near Foxley Farm
• Ock Bridge
• Oxford city walls
• Old Abingdon Road Culverts
• Site SE of Noah's Ark Inn, Frilford
• Section of the Grandpont causeway
• Castle mound at Fitzharris
• Godstow Abbey: a Benedictine nunnery, associated earthworks, leats and bridge, immediately south of Godstow Bridge
• Osney Abbey (remains of)
• Settlement site N of Thames
• Barton (remains of)
• Prehistoric and later settlements near Northmoor
• Settlement site E of Goose Acre Farm
• Abingdon Abbey (remains of)
• Settlement site N of Cow Lane
• Seacourt medieval settlement 760m west of Manor Farm, Binsey
• Dovecote at Culham Manor, 110m south west of St Paul's Church
• New Bridge
• North Hinksey conduit house
• Settlement site
• Abingdon Bridge including Maud Hale's Bridge
• Settlement sites N of Wick Hall
• Sutton Wick settlement site
• Swing bridge, LNWR Station
• The Devil's Quoits
• Great kitchen of manor house