Shiplake is a Village in the county of Oxfordshire.

Retail in Shiplake

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

Shiplake 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 Shiplake if you like cities.

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

Towns to visit near Shiplake include Banbury.

Historic Buildings to visit near Shiplake include Upton House.

Shiplake History

There are some historic monuments around Shiplake:

• Moated site 100m south-west of Bear Place
• High Bridge
• Moated site and fishpond at Botany Bay Copse
• Large multivallate hillfort known as Danesfield Camp
• Bix old church
• Reading Abbey: a Cluniac and Benedictine monastery and Civil War earthwork.
• Ring ditch cropmark E of St Patrick's Avenue
• Cropmark complex S of Charvil Lane
• Hurley Priory: A moated Benedictine priory and fishponds and the remains of Ladye Place Mansion
• Cropmark complex NE of Model Farm
• Roman villa at Mill End
• Cropmark enclosure and pits NE of St Patrick's Avenue
• Site of St Bartholomew's Church
• Cropmark complex in Straighthanger Field
• A slight univallate hillfort known as Medmenham Camp
• Cropmark complex SW of St Patrick's Avenue
• Highlands Farm Palaeolithic site
• Roman villa north of Yewden Lodge
• Cropmark site E of Broadmoor Lane
• Greys Court; castle wall, towers and well house