English Heritage sites near Sudbury Parish
CROXDEN ABBEY
7 miles from Sudbury 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.
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
16 miles from Sudbury 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.
WALL ROMAN SITE
17 miles from Sudbury Parish
Wall was an important staging post on Watling Street, the Roman military road to North Wales. It provided overnight accommodation for travelling Roman officials and imperial messengers.
ARBOR LOW STONE CIRCLE AND GIB HILL BARROW
19 miles from Sudbury 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.
WINGFIELD MANOR
19 miles from Sudbury 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
20 miles from Sudbury 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.
Churches in Sudbury Parish
The Parish Church of All Saints', Sudbury
Main Road
Sudbury
https://www.facebook.com/allsaintssudburyderbys
Rector: Revd Dr John Vickerstaff
Tel: 07565825250
Parish Line: 01283 585098
Pubs in Sudbury Parish
Coach House Tea Rooms
Main Street, Sudbury, DE6 5HT
(01283) 585337
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