English Heritage sites near Breaston Parish
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
12 miles from Breaston 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.
WINGFIELD MANOR
15 miles from Breaston 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
18 miles from Breaston 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.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
19 miles from Breaston 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
19 miles from Breaston 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.
SUTTON SCARSDALE HALL
23 miles from Breaston 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 Breaston Parish
St Michael's
Main Street, Breaston, DERBY
Breaston
Derby
(01332) 872242
https://wdbchurches.org.uk/
Dating from the 13th Century, St. Michael's sits at the very heart of the village of Breaston, which is between Nottingham and Derby. We offer a variety of styles of worship - traditional, contemplative and contemporary. Further information is available on the church website: www.stmichaelsbreaston.org.uk.
Pubs in Breaston Parish
Breaston Victory Club
Bulls Head
1 Wilsthorpe Road, Breaston, DE72 3EA
(01332) 872118
bullsheadpubbreaston.co.uk/
Chequers
10 Main Street, Breaston, DE72 3DX
(01332) 987071
chequersbreaston.co.uk/
Navigation Inn
Risley Lane, Breaston, DE72 3BP
(01332) 872880
navigationinnbreaston.co.uk