English Heritage sites near Foston and Scropton Parish
CROXDEN ABBEY
10 miles from Foston and Scropton 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
14 miles from Foston and Scropton 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 Foston and Scropton 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.
WINGFIELD MANOR
19 miles from Foston and Scropton 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.
ARBOR LOW STONE CIRCLE AND GIB HILL BARROW
20 miles from Foston and Scropton 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.
NINE LADIES STONE CIRCLE
21 miles from Foston and Scropton 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.