English Heritage sites near Weston Underwood Parish
WINGFIELD MANOR
9 miles from Weston Underwood 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
13 miles from Weston Underwood 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.
CROXDEN ABBEY
14 miles from Weston Underwood 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.
ARBOR LOW STONE CIRCLE AND GIB HILL BARROW
15 miles from Weston Underwood 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.
HOB HURST'S HOUSE
16 miles from Weston Underwood Parish
A square prehistoric burial mound with an earthwork ditch and outer bank. Named after a local goblin.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
16 miles from Weston Underwood 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.
Churches in Weston Underwood Parish
All Saints Mugginton
Church Lane
Mugginton
Ashbourne
01332 824792
Welcome to All Saints Parish Church, Mugginton.
Our normal pattern of services is as follows.
Please feel free to join us for any of our Sunday services, all are very welcome to attend.
We have a 'Friends and Family' service at 4.00pm on the first Sunday of the month.
On the second Sunday of the month we meet in the historic Halter Devil Chapel at 8.00am for Holy Communion.
The third Sunday of the month is normally Celtic Evening Prayer, a quiet reflective service at 4pm.
The fourth Sunday of each month at All Saints is Holy Communion.
We look forward to meeting you.
Pubs in Weston Underwood Parish
Cock Inn
The Cock Inn at Muggington had been closed since 2006 and had fallen into a poor state of dis-repair. It has now been tastefully renovated to an extremely high standard, reopened in Oct 2016, and is now a country pub you must visit.
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