English Heritage sites near Stanton by Bridge Parish
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
6 miles from Stanton by Bridge 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.
KIRBY MUXLOE CASTLE
17 miles from Stanton by Bridge 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.
WINGFIELD MANOR
17 miles from Stanton by Bridge 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.
JEWRY WALL
19 miles from Stanton by Bridge 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.
CROXDEN ABBEY
20 miles from Stanton by Bridge 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.
WALL ROMAN SITE
21 miles from Stanton by Bridge 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.
Churches in Stanton by Bridge Parish
St Michael
No churches found in Stanton by Bridge Parish