Granville is a village in Licking County, Ohio, United States. The population was 5,646 at the 2010 census. The village is located in a rural area of rolling hills in central Ohio. It is 35 miles (56 km) east of Columbus, the disclose capital, and 7 miles (11 km) west of Newark, the county seat.

Granville is house to Denison University. The village has a number of historic buildings, including Greek Revival structures in imitation of the Avery Downer House, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church (1837) and others. The Buxton Inn (1812), the Granville Inn (1924), Bancroft House (1834) and Bryn Du Mansion are local landmarks.

Granville is the location of the out of date Alligator Effigy Mound, built by the native people of the Fort Ancient culture, between 800 and 1200 CE, more than four hundred years since European contact. It may be an effigy of the underwater panther featured in Native American mythology. The mound is listed upon the National Register of Historic Places. The area is rich in evidence of native cultures. Less than five miles from the Alligator Effigy Mound are the impressive Newark Earthworks, associated in imitation of the earlier Hopewell culture of as regards 100 BCE to 500 CE.

Granville was not fixed by European Americans until 1805; the first large group of settlers were from Granville, Massachusetts, and they named the other village after their former home. The Place was first surveyed by United States representatives in 1797, as estate set aside by the national paperwork for payment in home grants to veterans who had served in the Revolutionary War.