Somerton is a Village in the county of Oxfordshire.

Somerton postcode: OX25 6LJ

Retail in Somerton

There are great places to visit near Somerton including some great ancient sites, cities and shopping centres.

Somerton has some unmissable ancient sites nearby like The Rollright Stones, The King Stone, The Whispering Knights, and The Kings Men.

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

The area close to Somerton boasts some of the best shopping centres including Westgate Oxford.

Somerton History

There are some historic monuments around Somerton:

• Cold War structures at the former Upper Heyford Airbase
• Water gardens, avenue and an associated earthwork, east of Court Farm
• Turf Maze at Troy Farm
• Whitehill medieval settlement immediately south of Old Whitehill Farm
• Long barrow 730m south west of Enslow Bridge
• Ilbury Camp hillfort
• Tusmore medieval settlement
• Middleton Stoney Castle
• Steane medieval village
• Ardley Wood moated ringwork
• Moated site E of school
• Dovecote at Rousham House
• Rainsborough camp
• Anglo-Saxon burial mound immediately north of Over Worton church graveyard
• Copping Knoll bowl barrow 200m south of Rose Cottage
• Saxon barrow 40m south east of Oxford Lodge
• Roman settlement 600m north east of Rowler
• Rainsborough long barrow, Charlton
• Bowl barrow 350m south west of Furze Platt Farm in Blenheim Great Park
• Deddington Castle
• Somerton Manor House; earthworks and remains of hall
• Tithe Barn
• Roman villa
• Rectangular earthwork, Hensington
• Rectangular enclosure near New Inn
• Somerton village earthworks