Sparsholt is a Village in the county of Oxfordshire.

Retail in Sparsholt

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

The area around Sparsholt boasts some of the best ancient sites including The Rollright Stones, The King Stone, The Whispering Knights, and The Kings Men.

There are a several good cities in the area around Sparsholt like Oxford.

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

Sparsholt History

There are some historic monuments around Sparsholt:

• Segsbury Camp or Letcombe Castle hillfort
• Wayland's Smithy chambered long barrow, including an earlier barrow and Iron Age and Roman boundary ditches
• Bowl barrow on Farncombe Down, 500m south west of Baydon Hole
• Neolithic long barrow and Romano-British inhumation cemetery 70m north of Uffington Castle on Whitehorse Hill
• Hackpen Hill bowl barrow 525m south of Sincombe Farm
• Dragon Hill
• Long barrow 400m north west of Sevenbarrows House
• Sparsholt Down round barrow, 900m north of Seven Barrows round barrow cemetery
• Boundary ditch E of Near Down
• Whatcombe deserted medieval village
• Two bowl barrows 300m north-east of Sevenbarrows House: part of the Seven Barrows cemetery
• Bowl barrow 390m N of Sevenbarrows House: part of the Seven Barrows cemetery
• Little Coxwell camp
• Bell barrow 400m north-east of Postdown Farm: part of the Seven Barrows cemetery
• Hardwell Camp promontory fort
• Bowl barrow 300m north of Postdown Farm: part of the Seven Barrows cemetery
• Bockhampton deserted medieval village
• Four bowl barrows 400m south-east of Sevenbarrows House: part of the Seven Barrows cemetery
• Bowl barrow 240m east of Sevenbarrows House: part of the Seven Barrows cemetery
• Wyke monastic grange and section of 18th century turnpike road, 780m south of Tudor Farm
• Two platform barrows and a bowl barrow 440m south of Greenway Cottages
• Ditch on Boydon Hole Farm
• Disc barrow 700m north-east of Sevenbarrows House: part of the Seven Barrows cemetery
• Round barrow cemetery at Seven Barrows, Lambourn
• Uffington Castle: a univallate hillfort immediately north of the Ridgeway on Whitehorse Hill
• Maddle Farm Roman settlement
• A double bell barrow, a saucer barrow and four bowl barrows, 450m south-east of Sevenbarrows House: part of the Seven Barrows cemetery
• Bowl barrow 250m north of Sevenbarrows House: Part of the Seven Barrows cemetery
• Mere End Down disc barrow
• Cherbury camp
• Lambourn Cross
• Earthwork in Ewedown Copse
• Fognam Clump field system
• Barn at Longworth House (hospital)
• Bowl barrow 850m south west of Sincombe Farm
• Bronze Age bowl barrow and a pair of Anglo-Saxon burial mounds 70m south of the White Horse on Whitehorse Hill
• Bowl barrow 270m north-east of Sevenbarrows House: part of the Seven Barrows cemetery
• Roman villa E of Cornhill Farm
• Mere End Down Romano-British field system
• The White Horse hill figure 170m NNE of Uffington Castle on Whitehorse Hill
• Two bowl barrows 500m north-east of Stancombe Farm
• Fognam Clump and adjacent field system