English Heritage sites near Cotgrave Parish
RUFFORD ABBEY
18 miles from Cotgrave 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.
JEWRY WALL
20 miles from Cotgrave 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.
WINGFIELD MANOR
20 miles from Cotgrave 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
20 miles from Cotgrave 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.
KIRBY MUXLOE CASTLE
21 miles from Cotgrave 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
21 miles from Cotgrave 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.
Churches in Cotgrave Parish
Pubs in Cotgrave Parish
Manvers Arms
Nottinghamshire Golf & Country Club
Stragglethorpe, Cotgrave, NG12 3HB
(0115) 933 3344
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Rose & Crown
Main Road, Cotgrave, NG12 3HQ
(0115) 989 2245
roseandcrowncotgrave.co.uk
Shepherds
, Stragglethorpe, Radcliffe on Trent, NG12 2JZ
(0115) 933 3337
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