English Heritage sites near Alderwasley Parish
WINGFIELD MANOR
3 miles from Alderwasley 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.
NINE LADIES STONE CIRCLE
8 miles from Alderwasley 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.
HOB HURST'S HOUSE
11 miles from Alderwasley Parish
A square prehistoric burial mound with an earthwork ditch and outer bank. Named after a local goblin.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
11 miles from Alderwasley 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.
ARBOR LOW STONE CIRCLE AND GIB HILL BARROW
12 miles from Alderwasley 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.
SUTTON SCARSDALE HALL
12 miles from Alderwasley Parish
The imposing shell of a grandiose Georgian mansion built in 1724-29, with an immensely columned exterior. Roofless since 1919, when its interiors were dismantled and some exported to America.
Churches in Alderwasley Parish
All Saints, Alderwasley
No churches found in Alderwasley Parish