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.

There are a number of ancient sites near Bessels Leigh including The Rollright Stones, The King Stone, The Whispering Knights, and The Kings Men.

Bessels Leigh is near some unmissable cities like Oxford,

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

Places near Bessels Leigh feature a number of interesting towns including Banbury.

The area around Bessels Leigh's best historic buildings can be found at Upton House.

Bessels Leigh History

There are some historic monuments around Bessels Leigh:

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