English Heritage sites near Ashleyhay Parish
WINGFIELD MANOR
5 miles from Ashleyhay 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 Ashleyhay 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 Ashleyhay Parish
A square prehistoric burial mound with an earthwork ditch and outer bank. Named after a local goblin.
ARBOR LOW STONE CIRCLE AND GIB HILL BARROW
11 miles from Ashleyhay 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
13 miles from Ashleyhay 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
14 miles from Ashleyhay 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.
No churches found in Ashleyhay Parish
Pubs in Ashleyhay Parish
Bear Inn
Under new management in late 2021. Access is through a corridor from the rear car park. Three stone-framed hatchways form the bar, backed by paintings of bears. Rooms subdivided by settles lead off from the bar, filled with old curios, incl...