English Heritage sites near Awsworth Parish
WINGFIELD MANOR
9 miles from Awsworth 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
12 miles from Awsworth 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
16 miles from Awsworth 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.
RUFFORD ABBEY
17 miles from Awsworth 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.
BOLSOVER CASTLE
17 miles from Awsworth 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
17 miles from Awsworth Parish
This charming cottage-like 17th-century conduit house, with vaulted stone-slab roof, once supplied water to Bolsover Castle.
Churches in Awsworth Parish
Pubs in Awsworth Parish
Crown Inn
Two roomed pub; bar with pool table and dart board, and a comfortable lounge. A skittle alley is housed in a separate building at the rear.
Gate Inn
Deemed to be unviable and sold by the pub’s former owners, the Gate Inn re-opened in December 2010 as a free house and has quickly established itself as a quality real ale outlet, winning Nottingham CAMRA’s Pub of Excellence award in 2011 a...