Faringdon is a Town in the county of Oxfordshire.

Faringdon postcode: SN7 7HL

Retail in Faringdon

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

The area around Faringdon features a number of interesting ancient sites including The Rollright Stones, The King Stone, The Whispering Knights, and The Kings Men.

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

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

Faringdon is near some unmissable towns like Banbury,

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

Faringdon History

There are some historic monuments around Faringdon:

• Long mortuary enclosure and associated barrow 120m south of Rushey Weir
• Wyke monastic grange and section of 18th century turnpike road, 780m south of Tudor Farm
• Settlement site
• St John's Hospital
• Uffington Castle: a univallate hillfort immediately north of the Ridgeway on Whitehorse Hill
• Ring ditches
• Ring ditches
• Bronze Age bowl barrow and a pair of Anglo-Saxon burial mounds 70m south of the White Horse on Whitehorse Hill
• Iron Age and Romano British settlement remains and associated features, 1km south east of Leaze Farm
• Hackpen Hill bowl barrow 525m south of Sincombe Farm
• Iron Age settlement centring 500m SW of Black Bourton
• Dragon Hill
• Trackways 500yds (460m) E of St George's Church
• Wayland's Smithy chambered long barrow, including an earlier barrow and Iron Age and Roman boundary ditches
• Enclosures 1500m SE of Little Faringdon
• Watchfield Anglo-Saxon cemetery
• Earthwork in Ewedown Copse
• Enclosures and trackways
• Neolithic long barrow and Romano-British inhumation cemetery 70m north of Uffington Castle on Whitehorse Hill
• Settlement 700m NE of Lechlade
• Interrupted ditch system
• Tithe barn
• Little Coxwell camp
• Bowl barrow 850m south west of Sincombe Farm
• Burroway enclosure
• Rectangular enclosures 1100yds (1010m) NW of Mount Owen Farm
• Causewayed enclosure, 900m west of Chimney Farm
• Radcot Bridge
• Bourton village cross
• Medieval settlement remains immediately south east of Fresden Farm
• Causewayed enclosure and associated features on the south bank of the River Thames, immediately west of Rushey Weir
• Hardwell Camp promontory fort
• The White Horse hill figure 170m NNE of Uffington Castle on Whitehorse Hill
• Badbury camp