English Heritage sites near Church Broughton Parish
CROXDEN ABBEY
10 miles from Church Broughton 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
14 miles from Church Broughton 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.
WINGFIELD MANOR
17 miles from Church Broughton 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.
WALL ROMAN SITE
18 miles from Church Broughton 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 Church Broughton 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.
NINE LADIES STONE CIRCLE
19 miles from Church Broughton 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 Church Broughton Parish
Church Broughton: St Michael
Church Road
Church Broughton
Derby
01283 585766
We are also proud to have a very good Church of England (Controlled) School serving our community. For details see
http://schoolsfinder.direct.gov.uk/8303156/overview/
Pubs in Church Broughton Parish
Broughton Heath Golf Club
Bent Lane, Church Broughton, DE65 5BA
(01283) 521235
broughtonheathgolfclub.co.uk/
Hollybush Inn
Main Street, Church Broughton, DE65 5AS
(01283) 585345
hollybush-cb.co.uk