English Heritage sites near Cropwell Butler Parish
RUFFORD ABBEY
17 miles from Cropwell Butler 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
21 miles from Cropwell Butler 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.
JEWRY WALL
21 miles from Cropwell Butler Parish
A length of Roman bath-house wall over 9 metres (30 feet) high, near a museum displaying the archaeology of Leicester and its region.
WINGFIELD MANOR
22 miles from Cropwell Butler 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.
KIRBY MUXLOE CASTLE
23 miles from Cropwell Butler Parish
The picturesque moated remains - including the fine gatehouse and a complete corner tower - of this brick-built fortified mansion have recently been extensively conserved by English Heritage.
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
24 miles from Cropwell Butler 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.
No churches found in Cropwell Butler Parish
Pubs in Cropwell Butler Parish
Plough Inn
Main Street, Cropwell Butler, NG12 3AB
(0115) 837 2506
theplough-cropwellbutler.co.uk