English Heritage sites near Papplewick Parish
HARDWICK OLD HALL
10 miles from Papplewick 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.
RUFFORD ABBEY
10 miles from Papplewick Parish
The best-preserved remains of a Cistercian abbey west cloister range in England, dating mainly from about 1170. Incorporated into part of a 17th century and later mansion, set in Rufford Country Park.
WINGFIELD MANOR
11 miles from Papplewick 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.
SUTTON SCARSDALE HALL
13 miles from Papplewick 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
13 miles from Papplewick 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.'
BOLSOVER CUNDY HOUSE
13 miles from Papplewick Parish
This charming cottage-like 17th-century conduit house, with vaulted stone-slab roof, once supplied water to Bolsover Castle.
Churches in Papplewick Parish
St James' Church, Papplewick
Pubs in Papplewick Parish
Griffins Head
Moor Road, Papplewick, NG15 8EN
(0115) 697 5700
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Miller & Carter Sherwood Forest
Mansfield Road, Papplewick, NG15 8FJ
(0115) 926 6595
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