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 and shopping centres.

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

The area around Faringdon's best cities can be found at Oxford.

Don't miss Westgate Oxford's shopping centres if visiting the area around Faringdon.

Faringdon History

There are some historic monuments around Faringdon:

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