English Heritage sites near Stanton on the Wolds Parish
JEWRY WALL
17 miles from Stanton on the Wolds Parish
A length of Roman bath-house wall over 9 metres (30 feet) high, near a museum displaying the archaeology of Leicester and its region.
KIRBY MUXLOE CASTLE
18 miles from Stanton on the Wolds Parish
The picturesque moated remains - including the fine gatehouse and a complete corner tower - of this brick-built fortified mansion have recently been extensively conserved by English Heritage.
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
19 miles from Stanton on the Wolds 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.
RUFFORD ABBEY
21 miles from Stanton on the Wolds Parish
The best-preserved remains of a Cistercian abbey west cloister range in England, dating mainly from about 1170. Incorporated into part of a 17th century and later mansion, set in Rufford Country Park.
WINGFIELD MANOR
22 miles from Stanton on the Wolds 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.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
23 miles from Stanton on the Wolds 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 Stanton on the Wolds Parish
All Saints Church, Stanton on the Wolds
Stanton-on-the-Wolds
http://www.keyworthstantonbunnychurch.com
Stanton on the Wolds Parish Church is a small, friendly, welcoming church on the edge of the local golf course and surrounded by fields. It is small, seating about 50 and very simple in style. Though we are fairly informal, the Choir is robed and the services tend to use the more traditional forms.
You will be sure of a warm welcome when you come to Stanton Church.
Pubs in Stanton on the Wolds Parish
Stanton on the Wolds Golf Club
Golf Course Road, Keyworth, NG12 5BH
(0115) 937 2044
stantongolfclub.co.uk