English Heritage sites near Calverton Parish
RUFFORD ABBEY
9 miles from Calverton 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.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
12 miles from Calverton 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.
WINGFIELD MANOR
15 miles from Calverton 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.
BOLSOVER CASTLE
15 miles from Calverton 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
15 miles from Calverton Parish
This charming cottage-like 17th-century conduit house, with vaulted stone-slab roof, once supplied water to Bolsover Castle.
SUTTON SCARSDALE HALL
16 miles from Calverton 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.
Churches in Calverton Parish
Calverton: St Wilfrid
Main Street
Calverton
Nottingham
01158410727
http://www.stwilfrids-church.co.uk
Pubs in Calverton Parish
Admiral Rodney
Main Street, Calverton, NG14 6FB
(0115) 841 0867
admiralrodney.co.uk
Arnold Town Football Club
Calverton Cricket Club
Calverton Miners Welfare
Calverton Working Mens Club
Cherry Tree
Gleaners Inn
Ramsdale Park Golf Centre
Oxton Road, Calverton, NG14 6NU
(0115) 965 5600
ramsdaleparkgc.co.uk