English Heritage sites near Aston upon Trent Parish
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
9 miles from Aston upon Trent 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.
WINGFIELD MANOR
16 miles from Aston upon Trent 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.
KIRBY MUXLOE CASTLE
17 miles from Aston upon Trent Parish
The picturesque moated remains - including the fine gatehouse and a complete corner tower - of this brick-built fortified mansion have recently been extensively conserved by English Heritage.
JEWRY WALL
19 miles from Aston upon Trent Parish
A length of Roman bath-house wall over 9 metres (30 feet) high, near a museum displaying the archaeology of Leicester and its region.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
21 miles from Aston upon Trent 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.
CROXDEN ABBEY
23 miles from Aston upon Trent 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.
Churches in Aston upon Trent Parish
All Saints
Pubs in Aston upon Trent Parish
Malt
14 The Green, Aston-on-Trent, DE72 2AA
(01332) 799116
maltshovelastonontrent.pub