English Heritage sites near Sandiacre Parish
WINGFIELD MANOR
13 miles from Sandiacre 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
14 miles from Sandiacre 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.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
17 miles from Sandiacre 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.
SUTTON SCARSDALE HALL
20 miles from Sandiacre 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.
KIRBY MUXLOE CASTLE
20 miles from Sandiacre 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.
RUFFORD ABBEY
20 miles from Sandiacre 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.
Churches in Sandiacre Parish
Pubs in Sandiacre Parish
Blue Bell
Bridge
Longmoor Lane, Sandiacre, NG10 5LW
(0115) 939 3619
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Plough Inn
Town Street, Sandiacre, NG10 5DU
(0115) 949 9454
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