English Heritage sites near Morley Parish
WINGFIELD MANOR
9 miles from Morley 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
15 miles from Morley 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.
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
15 miles from Morley Parish
Ashby Castle forms the backdrop to the famous jousting scenes in Sir Walter Scott's classic novel of 1819, Ivanhoe. Now a ruin, the castle began as a manor house in the 12th century.
NINE LADIES STONE CIRCLE
17 miles from Morley 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.
SUTTON SCARSDALE HALL
18 miles from Morley 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.
HOB HURST'S HOUSE
19 miles from Morley Parish
A square prehistoric burial mound with an earthwork ditch and outer bank. Named after a local goblin.
Churches in Morley Parish
Pubs in Morley Parish
Breadsall Priory
Breadsall Priory was once an Augustinian Priory, formed by the Curzon family of Derby with parts of the building originating from 1260. It is now a luxury hotel famed for being the oldest hotel worldwide in the Marriott Group.
It sits in 3...
Three Horseshoes
Rural cottage pub. The interior is quite small, knocked-together: bar area on the left and lounge on the right. Modernised but there are some remains of interwar remodelling: tiles in the porch, beamed ceilings and small red floor tiles. A...