English Heritage sites near Radbourne Parish
WINGFIELD MANOR
13 miles from Radbourne Parish
The vast and immensely impressive ruins of a palatial medieval manor house, with a huge undercrofted Great Hall and a defensible High Tower 22 metres (72 feet) tall.
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
13 miles from Radbourne Parish
Ashby Castle forms the backdrop to the famous jousting scenes in Sir Walter Scott's classic novel of 1819, Ivanhoe. Now a ruin, the castle began as a manor house in the 12th century.
CROXDEN ABBEY
14 miles from Radbourne Parish
The impressive remains of an abbey of Cistercian 'white monks', including towering fragments of its 13th-century church, infirmary and 14th-century abbot's lodging.
NINE LADIES STONE CIRCLE
17 miles from Radbourne Parish
A small early Bronze Age stone circle of (actually) ten stones. Believed to be nine ladies turned to stone as a penalty for dancing on Sunday.
ARBOR LOW STONE CIRCLE AND GIB HILL BARROW
19 miles from Radbourne Parish
The region's most important prehistoric site, Arbor Low is a Neolithic henge monument atmospherically set in high moorland. A circle of some 50 white limestone slabs within an earthen bank and ditch.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
20 miles from Radbourne Parish
The remodelled family home of Bess of Hardwick, one of the richest and most remarkable women of Elizabethan England, stands beside the New Hall she raised later in the 1590s.
Churches in Radbourne Parish
Radbourne: St Andrew
School Lane
Radbourne
Derby
01335 513793
http://longford8.org.uk
No churches found in Radbourne Parish