English Heritage sites near Hollington Parish
CROXDEN ABBEY
10 miles from Hollington 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.
WINGFIELD MANOR
13 miles from Hollington 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
15 miles from Hollington 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
16 miles from Hollington 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.
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
16 miles from Hollington 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.
HOB HURST'S HOUSE
19 miles from Hollington Parish
A square prehistoric burial mound with an earthwork ditch and outer bank. Named after a local goblin.
No churches found in Hollington Parish
Pubs in Hollington Parish
Red Lion
Longford Road, Hollington, DE6 3AG
(01335) 360138
theredlionhollington.co.uk