English Heritage sites near Tissington and Lea Hall Parish
ARBOR LOW STONE CIRCLE AND GIB HILL BARROW
7 miles from Tissington and Lea Hall 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.
NINE LADIES STONE CIRCLE
9 miles from Tissington and Lea Hall 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.
CROXDEN ABBEY
10 miles from Tissington and Lea Hall 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.
WINGFIELD MANOR
12 miles from Tissington and Lea Hall 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.
HOB HURST'S HOUSE
13 miles from Tissington and Lea Hall Parish
A square prehistoric burial mound with an earthwork ditch and outer bank. Named after a local goblin.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
19 miles from Tissington and Lea Hall 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 Tissington and Lea Hall Parish
St Mary
The Green
Tissington
Ashbourne
07704831769
http://peakfive.org/
An ancient church, filled with regular prayer, with lots of history, linked to the FitzHerbert family and the village through the generations.
We love to welcome couples who are planning their reception at Tissington Hall, who wish to be married in church. Contact our Priest in Charge Rev Carollyn McDonald to find out more.
No churches found in Tissington and Lea Hall Parish