English Heritage sites near Carsington Parish
NINE LADIES STONE CIRCLE
7 miles from Carsington 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.
WINGFIELD MANOR
8 miles from Carsington 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.
ARBOR LOW STONE CIRCLE AND GIB HILL BARROW
8 miles from Carsington 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
10 miles from Carsington Parish
A square prehistoric burial mound with an earthwork ditch and outer bank. Named after a local goblin.
CROXDEN ABBEY
14 miles from Carsington 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.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
15 miles from Carsington 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.
Churches in Carsington Parish
St Margaret's, Carsington
St Margaret's Church
Main St
Carsington
Matlock
01629824707
http://wirksworthteamministry.co.uk/
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Pubs in Carsington Parish
Miner's Arms
Main Street, Carsington, DE4 4DE
(01629) 540207
theminerscarsington.co.uk/