English Heritage sites near Blackwell Parish
HARDWICK OLD HALL
3 miles from Blackwell 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.
WINGFIELD MANOR
5 miles from Blackwell 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.
SUTTON SCARSDALE HALL
7 miles from Blackwell 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.
BOLSOVER CASTLE
8 miles from Blackwell 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.'
BOLSOVER CUNDY HOUSE
8 miles from Blackwell Parish
This charming cottage-like 17th-century conduit house, with vaulted stone-slab roof, once supplied water to Bolsover Castle.
HOB HURST'S HOUSE
12 miles from Blackwell Parish
A square prehistoric burial mound with an earthwork ditch and outer bank. Named after a local goblin.
Churches in Blackwell Parish
St Werburgh
Church Hill
Blackwell
http://www.blackwellchurch.co.uk
Welcome to St Werburgh's, Blackwell in the Deanery of Hardwick, Derby Diocese.
Please visit our website http://www.blackwellchurch.co.uk to find out more about us.
Pubs in Blackwell Parish
Blackwell Hotel
Blackwell Miners Welfare & Social Club
Cottage Inn
George & Dragon
Hilcote Arms
Hilcote Country Club
Hilcote Lane, Hilcote, DE55 5HR
(01773) 811248
hilcotecountryclub.co.uk
New Inn
Robin Hood
Sherwood
Station
Westhouses Social Club
2 Alfreton Road, Westhouses, Westhouses, DE55 5AH
(01773) 832970