English Heritage sites near Gunthorpe Parish
RUFFORD ABBEY
12 miles from Gunthorpe 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.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
18 miles from Gunthorpe 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.
WINGFIELD MANOR
20 miles from Gunthorpe 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.
BOLSOVER CASTLE
21 miles from Gunthorpe 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
21 miles from Gunthorpe Parish
This charming cottage-like 17th-century conduit house, with vaulted stone-slab roof, once supplied water to Bolsover Castle.
SUTTON SCARSDALE HALL
21 miles from Gunthorpe 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.
Churches in Gunthorpe Parish
St John the Baptist
Pubs in Gunthorpe Parish
Tom Browns Brasserie
Old School House, Trentside, Gunthorpe, NG14 7FB
(0115) 966 3642
tombrowns.co.uk/
Unicorn
Trentside, Gunthorpe, NG14 7FB
(0115) 966 3612
unicornhotelpub.co.uk