English Heritage sites near Bretby Parish
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
6 miles from Bretby 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.
WALL ROMAN SITE
16 miles from Bretby Parish
Wall was an important staging post on Watling Street, the Roman military road to North Wales. It provided overnight accommodation for travelling Roman officials and imperial messengers.
CROXDEN ABBEY
18 miles from Bretby 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.
KIRBY MUXLOE CASTLE
18 miles from Bretby 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.
WINGFIELD MANOR
21 miles from Bretby 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.
JEWRY WALL
21 miles from Bretby 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.
Churches in Bretby Parish
St Wystan
Village Green
Bretby
01283 703337
http://www.stmarkswinshill.co.uk
Small Rural Family Church with a Communion Service every Sunday excepting the third, when a Family Service takes place. Followed by refreshments every week.
WE have a loyal and friendly congregation who pride themselves with good signing
Pubs in Bretby Parish
Burton-on-Trent Golf Club
43 Ashby Road East, Bretby, DE15 0PS
(01283) 544551
botgc.co.uk/
Stanhope Arms
Large, imposing Premier Inn hotel, originally part of the Earl of Carnarvon's estate (to 1921), but substantially enlarged since then. Bar/restaurant entrance (to right of hotel entrance) leads straight to main bar area with stone flagged...