English Heritage sites near Hungry Bentley Parish
CROXDEN ABBEY
7 miles from Hungry Bentley 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
16 miles from Hungry Bentley 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.
WINGFIELD MANOR
16 miles from Hungry Bentley 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
16 miles from Hungry Bentley 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.
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
17 miles from Hungry Bentley 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
20 miles from Hungry Bentley Parish
A square prehistoric burial mound with an earthwork ditch and outer bank. Named after a local goblin.
No churches found in Hungry Bentley Parish
No churches found in Hungry Bentley Parish