English Heritage sites near Wessington Parish
WINGFIELD MANOR
2 miles from Wessington 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
7 miles from Wessington 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.
SUTTON SCARSDALE HALL
8 miles from Wessington Parish
The imposing shell of a grandiose Georgian mansion built in 1724-29, with an immensely columned exterior. Roofless since 1919, when its interiors were dismantled and some exported to America.
NINE LADIES STONE CIRCLE
9 miles from Wessington 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.
HOB HURST'S HOUSE
9 miles from Wessington Parish
A square prehistoric burial mound with an earthwork ditch and outer bank. Named after a local goblin.
BOLSOVER CASTLE
10 miles from Wessington Parish
'By an unlikely miracle, the keep at Bolsover has survived into this century as an almost untouched expression in stone of the lost world of Elizabethan chivalry and romance.'
No churches found in Wessington Parish
Pubs in Wessington Parish
Horse & Jockey
Brackenfield La, Wessington, DE55 6DW
(01773) 309482
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