Burford is a Town in the county of Oxfordshire.

Retail in Burford

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

Don't miss The Rollright Stones, The King Stone, The Whispering Knights, and The Kings Men's ancient sites if visiting the area around Burford.

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

Places near Burford feature a number of interesting shopping centres including Westgate Oxford.

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

Historic Buildings to visit near Burford include Upton House.

Burford History

There are some historic monuments around Burford:

• The socket stone and step of a churchyard cross in St Andrew's churchyard, Eastleach Turville
• Site of Langley Palace royal hunting lodge, an associated enclosure and later garden earthworks at Langley Farm
• Anglo-Saxon burial mound 450m north west of University Farm
• Rectangular enclosures 1100yds (1010m) NW of Mount Owen Farm
• Round barrow 750m north east of Eastleachdowns Farm
• Ascott d'Oyley 12th century motte and bailey castle and associated earthworks
• Two bowl barrows, known as Heath Hill round barrows, 70m and 190m north east of Heath Hill
• Earthwork at Lowbarrow Farm
• Medieval settlement of Widford immediately east of Manor Farm
• Settlement site
• Causewayed enclosure and settlement enclosures immediately north west of Shire Gate
• Leafield Barrow: a motte castle 220m north west of St Michael and All Angels Church
• Wyck Beacon bowl barrow
• Long barrow situated in Southlawn Plain Woods
• Bowl barrow 525m north of Barter's Hill Farm
• Knollbury camp hillfort
• Interrupted ditch system
• Lyneham long barrow and standing stone, 480m north east of Hill Barn
• Ring ditches and enclosures
• Pain's Farm bowl barrow 30m south of Pain's Farm Cottages
• Barrington Park Roman villa, Great Barrington
• Romano-British villa south east of Great Barrington
• Shipton Barrow: a bowl barrow, Saxon barrow, and associated earthwork enclosure 350m north of Downs Lodge
• One of a pair of bowl barrows 370m NW of High Lodge
• Roman villa and associated bath house 450m north west of Lower Field Farm
• Ring ditches
• Fifield long barrow
• Asthall Barrow: an Anglo-Saxon burial mound 100m SSW of Barrow Farm
• Iron Age settlement centring 500m SW of Black Bourton
• Pair of confluent bowl barrows 200m SSW of Bockett's Corner on Leigh Hale Plain
• Squire's Clump Anglo-Saxon burial mound 500m south west of Iron Buildings
• Five bowl barrows 870m north west of Eastleachdowns Farm
• Site of 19th century pottery factory NW of Leafield
• Idbury Camp hillfort
• The socket stone and part of the shaft of a churchyard cross in St Michael and St Martin's churchyard, Eastleach Martin
• Icomb camp
• Ascott Earl motte and bailey castle
• The Roundabout hillfort, 460m west of Barter's Hill Farm
• One of a pair of bowl barrows 370m north-west of High Lodge
• Skew Plantation bowl barrow
• Roman villa 600yds (550m) NE of Great Lemhill Farm
• Pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows 150m north of Roustage Wood