English Heritage sites near Dalbury Lees Parish
CROXDEN ABBEY
13 miles from Dalbury Lees 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.
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
13 miles from Dalbury Lees 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
14 miles from Dalbury Lees 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
17 miles from Dalbury Lees 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
18 miles from Dalbury Lees 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
21 miles from Dalbury Lees Parish
A square prehistoric burial mound with an earthwork ditch and outer bank. Named after a local goblin.
Churches in Dalbury Lees Parish
Dalbury: All Saints
The Village
Dalbury
Derby
01283 732846
We are a small congregation meeting in a gem of a tiny country church well off the beaten path that rewards its visitors with its simple beauty and history. We look forward to welcoming you into our building and sharing worship with you.
Pubs in Dalbury Lees Parish
Cow
The Green, Dalbury Lees, DE6 5BE
(01332) 824297
cowdalbury.com/