English Heritage sites near Turnditch Parish
WINGFIELD MANOR
7 miles from Turnditch 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
11 miles from Turnditch 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
13 miles from Turnditch 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
14 miles from Turnditch Parish
A square prehistoric burial mound with an earthwork ditch and outer bank. Named after a local goblin.
CROXDEN ABBEY
15 miles from Turnditch 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.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
15 miles from Turnditch 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.
Churches in Turnditch Parish
All Saints
Ashbourne Road
Turnditch
Belper
(01773) 824974
http://christchurchbelper.org.uk
All saints' is a small friendly village church in the Derbyshire Dales village of Turnditch.
Pubs in Turnditch Parish
Cross Keys Inn
Tiger Inn
232 Ashbourne Road, Turnditch, DE56 2LH
(01773) 550200
thetigerinnturnditch.com/