English Heritage sites near Swanwick Parish
WINGFIELD MANOR
2 miles from Swanwick 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.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
7 miles from Swanwick 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.
SUTTON SCARSDALE HALL
10 miles from Swanwick 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.
BOLSOVER CASTLE
11 miles from Swanwick Parish
'By an unlikely miracle, the keep at Bolsover has survived into this century as an almost untouched expression in stone of the lost world of Elizabethan chivalry and romance.'
NINE LADIES STONE CIRCLE
12 miles from Swanwick 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.
BOLSOVER CUNDY HOUSE
12 miles from Swanwick Parish
This charming cottage-like 17th-century conduit house, with vaulted stone-slab roof, once supplied water to Bolsover Castle.
Churches in Swanwick Parish
St Andrew Swanwick
The Green, Swanwick, Alfreton
Swanwick
Derby
01773 541458
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Pubs in Swanwick Parish
Boot & Slipper
Cross Keys
Gate Inn
The Delves, Swanwick, DE55 1AQ
(01773) 607474
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