English Heritage sites near Normanton on the Wolds Parish
JEWRY WALL
18 miles from Normanton on the Wolds Parish
A length of Roman bath-house wall over 9 metres (30 feet) high, near a museum displaying the archaeology of Leicester and its region.
KIRBY MUXLOE CASTLE
19 miles from Normanton on the Wolds 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.
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
20 miles from Normanton on the Wolds 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.
RUFFORD ABBEY
20 miles from Normanton on the Wolds 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.
WINGFIELD MANOR
21 miles from Normanton on the Wolds 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.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
22 miles from Normanton on the Wolds 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.
No churches found in Normanton on the Wolds Parish
Pubs in Normanton on the Wolds Parish
Plough Inn
Old Melton Road, Normanton on the Wolds, NG12 5NN
(0115) 937 2401
theploughatnormanton.co.uk