Watchfield
Watchfield is a Village in the county of Oxfordshire.
There are great places to visit near Watchfield including some great ancient sites, cities and shopping centres.
The Rollright Stones, The King Stone, The Whispering Knights, and The Kings Men are great places to visit near Watchfield if you like ancient sites.
Don't miss Oxford's cities if visiting the area around Watchfield.
There are a number of shopping centres near to Watchfield including Westgate Oxford.
Watchfield History
There are some historic monuments around Watchfield:
- Fognam Clump and adjacent field system
- Three round barrows forming the core of a dispersed barrow cemetery on Idstone Down
- Sites near Manor Ham Barn
- Tithe barn
- Settlement 700m NE of Lechlade
- Medieval settlement and associated ridge and furrow south-west of Eastrop Farm
- Highworth circle 200m south east of Common Farm
- Badbury camp
- Three Highworth circles 600m east of North Leaze Farm
- Churchyard cross, 10m south east of St John the Baptist's Church
- Medieval settlement remains at Inglesham
- Medieval settlement remains immediately south east of Fresden Farm
- St John's Hospital
- Lynchets 850m west of Ridgeway Farm
- Four Highworth circles east of North Leaze Farm
- Bowl barrow 350m south-west of Harley Bushes, Bishopstone Downs
- Fognam Clump field system
- Highworth circle 350m north east of Common Farm
- The White Horse hill figure 170m NNE of Uffington Castle on Whitehorse Hill
- Enclosures 1500m SE of Little Faringdon
- Wyke monastic grange and section of 18th century turnpike road, 780m south of Tudor Farm
- Bourton village cross
- Trackways 500yds (460m) E of St George's Church
- Roman villa 630m south west of Starveall Farm
- Medieval settlement remains at Sevenhampton
- Burroway enclosure
- Four Highworth circles 150m north east of Pickett's Copse
- Settlement site
- Uffington Castle: a univallate hillfort immediately north of the Ridgeway on Whitehorse Hill
- Bowl barrow 280m north of Downs Barn
- Wayland's Smithy chambered long barrow, including an earlier barrow and Iron Age and Roman boundary ditches
- Stone circle immediately north east of Day House, Coate
- Alfred's Castle univallate hillfort
- Highworth circle 470m north east of North Leaze Farm
- Highworth circle 200m north east of Common Farm
- Watchfield Anglo-Saxon cemetery
- Little Coxwell camp
- Linear boundary earthwork west of Liddington Castle
- Bowl barrow 150m north of Half Moon Wood
- Long barrow 700m north of Liddington Warren Farm
- Two Highworth circles 250m and 325m north of Eastrop Farm
- Iron Age and Romano British settlement remains and associated features, 1km south east of Leaze Farm
- Bowl barrow on Hinton Downs
- Bronze Age bowl barrow and a pair of Anglo-Saxon burial mounds 70m south of the White Horse on Whitehorse Hill
- Bowl barrow 200m north of Downs Barn
- Hall Place
- Ring ditches
- Halfpenny Bridge
- Liddington Castle
- Hardwell Camp promontory fort
- Multi-period settlement, cemetery, and ceremonial complex W of Lechlade
- Bowl barrow 85m north east of Day House Cottages
- Neolithic long barrow and Romano-British inhumation cemetery 70m north of Uffington Castle on Whitehorse Hill
- Boundary ditch E of Near Down
- Maddle Farm Roman settlement
- Radcot Bridge
- Dragon Hill
- Bowl barrow 850m north west of North Farm
- Disc barrow 780m north east of North Farm
- Highworth circle 520m north west of North Leaze Farm
- Enclosures and trackways
- Two Highworth circles 600m south east of North Leaze Farm
- Site of Roman town, W of Wanborough House
Places to see near Watchfield
Lakes near Watchfield
Canals near Watchfield
Rivers near Watchfield
- Thame upstream of Aylesbury
- Cuttle Brook
- Dorton, Chearsley and Waddesdon Brooks
- Stoke Brook Aylesbury
- Baldon Brook (South of Oxford)
- Holton Brook and tributaries
- Chinor Brook and Sydenham Brook
- Kingsey Cuttle Brook and tributaries at Thame
- Latchford Brook at Tetsworth
- Hardwick Brook (Source to Thame)
- Lewknor Brook
- Thame (Scotsgrove Brook to Thames)
- Scotsgrove Brook (upstream Kingsey Cuttle Brook)
- Peppershill and Shabbington Brooks
- Worminghall Brook and tributaries
- Thame (Aylesbury to Scotsgrove Brook)
- Haseley Brook
- Chalgrove Brook
- Bear Brook and Wendover Brook
- Fleet Marston Brook, Denham Brook, Pitchcott Brook west
- Berrick Stream and Lady Brook
- Wye (High Wycombe fire station to Thames)
- Sulham Brook
- Hamble Brook
- Mill Brook and Bradfords Brook system, Wallingford
- Cholsey Brook and tributaries
- Hughenden Stream
- Ewelme Stream (Source to Thames)
- Ewelme Stream (Source to Thames)
- Thames (Reading to Cookham)
- Wye (Source to High Wycombe fire station)
- Thames Wallingford to Caversham
- Pang
- Letcombe Brook
- Ock and tributaries (Land Brook confluence to Thames)
- Sandford Brook (source to Ock)
- Frilford and Marcham Brook
- Childrey Brook and Norbrook at Common Barn
- Ock (to Cherbury Brook)
- Childrey and Woodhill Brooks
- Stutfield Brook (source to Ock)
- Ginge Brook and Mill Brook
- Thames (Evenlode to Thame)
- Moor Ditch and Ladygrove Ditch
- Northfield Brook (Source to Thames) at Sandford
- Cow Common Brook and Portobello Ditch
- Cherwell (Bletchingdon to Ray)
- Bloxham Brook (Source to Sor Brook)
- Highfurlong Brook (to Cherwell)
- Hanwell Brook
- Tadmarton Stream (Source to Sor Brook)
- Upper Swere (Source to Wigginton)
- Hook Norton Brook (Source to Swere)
- Sor Brook (Broughton to Cherwell)
- Farthinghoe Stream (Source to Cherwell) and tributaries
- Swere (Wigginton to Cherwell)
- Ockley Brook and Croughton Brook (Source to Cherwell)
- Ashby Brook (Source to Cherwell)
- Bayswater Brook
- Deddington Brook (Source to Cherwell)
- Sor Brook (Source to Broughton)
- Cherwell (Ray to Thames) and Woodeaton Brook
- Cherwell (Source to Trafford Bridge)
- Chacombe Brook (Source to Cherwell)
- Cherwell (Ashby Brook to Cropredy)
- Clayton and Wormleighton Brook, Source to Highfurlong Brook
- Cherwell (Cropredy to Nell Bridge)
- Shutford Stream (Source to Sor Brook)
- Cherwell (Nell Bridge to Bletchingdon)
- Littlestock Stream to tributary of Evenlode at Shipton
- Evenlode (Source to Four Shires S) and Longborough Stream
- Glyme (Enstone to Dorn)
- Little Compton Brook and tributaries (Source to Evenlode)
- Evenlode (Bledington to Glyme confluence)
- Glyme (Dorn confluence to Evenlode)
- Evenlode (Compton Bk to Bledington Bk) and 4 Shires
- Heythorpe Stream and tributaries
- Cornwell Brook and tributaries (Source to Evenlode)
- Coldron and Taston Brooks
- Sars Brook (source to Evenlode downstream Bledington)
- Bledington Brook (Source to Evenlode)
- Evenlode (Glyme to Thames)
- Glyme (Source to Enstone)
- Westcote Brook (source to Evenlode at Bledington)
- Dorn (Source to Glyme)