English Heritage sites near Osleston and Thurvaston Parish
CROXDEN ABBEY
11 miles from Osleston and Thurvaston 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.
WINGFIELD MANOR
14 miles from Osleston and Thurvaston 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 Osleston and Thurvaston 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.
NINE LADIES STONE CIRCLE
17 miles from Osleston and Thurvaston 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.
ARBOR LOW STONE CIRCLE AND GIB HILL BARROW
17 miles from Osleston and Thurvaston 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
20 miles from Osleston and Thurvaston Parish
A square prehistoric burial mound with an earthwork ditch and outer bank. Named after a local goblin.
Churches in Osleston and Thurvaston Parish
Long Lane: Christ Church
Long Lane
Long Lane Village
Derby
01335 330297
We are proud to have an outstanding Church of England (Controlled) School. For details see:-
http://schoolsfinder.direct.gov.uk/8303076/overview/
Pubs in Osleston and Thurvaston Parish
Horseshoes
, Dalbury Lees, Long Lane, DE6 5BJ
(01332) 824625
horseshoeslonglane.co.uk/