English Heritage sites near Rolleston on Dove Parish
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
10 miles from Rolleston on Dove 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.
CROXDEN ABBEY
13 miles from Rolleston on Dove 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.
WALL ROMAN SITE
16 miles from Rolleston on Dove Parish
Wall was an important staging post on Watling Street, the Roman military road to North Wales. It provided overnight accommodation for travelling Roman officials and imperial messengers.
WINGFIELD MANOR
19 miles from Rolleston on Dove 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.
NINE LADIES STONE CIRCLE
22 miles from Rolleston on Dove 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.
ARBOR LOW STONE CIRCLE AND GIB HILL BARROW
23 miles from Rolleston on Dove 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.
Churches in Rolleston on Dove Parish
Rolleston on Dove: St.Mary
Church Road, Rolleston-on-Dove
Rolleston
Burton-on-Trent
(01283) 814802
Our church building of St Mary Rolleston is old, and we tell the children it is Norman[s] with a lovely Norman [1133] doorway. It is set in a beautiful Staffordshire village. We are middle Anglican in Tradition. Our morning service are Common Worship Holy Communion or Morning Prayer. in the evenings we have the traditional Prayer Book worship in the evening with a full choir. A warm welcome is offered to all who would like to visit or join us here at St Mary's.
Services every Sunday at 9.15am and at 6.30pm
Pubs in Rolleston on Dove Parish
Jinnie Inn
177 Station Road, Rolleston-on-Dove, DE13 9AB
(01283) 812155
thejinnie.co.uk/
Rolleston Club
15 Burnside, Rolleston-on-Dove, Rolleston-on-Dove, DE13 9DN
(01283) 812072
rollestonclub.org.uk/
Spread Eagle
Church Road, Rolleston-on-Dove, DE13 9BE
(01283) 813004
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