English Heritage sites near Hognaston Parish
NINE LADIES STONE CIRCLE
8 miles from Hognaston 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.
WINGFIELD MANOR
9 miles from Hognaston 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.
ARBOR LOW STONE CIRCLE AND GIB HILL BARROW
10 miles from Hognaston 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.
HOB HURST'S HOUSE
12 miles from Hognaston Parish
A square prehistoric burial mound with an earthwork ditch and outer bank. Named after a local goblin.
CROXDEN ABBEY
13 miles from Hognaston 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.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
16 miles from Hognaston 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 Hognaston Parish
St Bartholomew, Hognaston
Pubs in Hognaston Parish
Red Lion Inn
Main Street, Hognaston, DE6 1PR
(01335) 370396
redlionhognaston.uk