English Heritage sites near Cromford Parish
WINGFIELD MANOR
5 miles from Cromford 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
5 miles from Cromford 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.
HOB HURST'S HOUSE
8 miles from Cromford Parish
A square prehistoric burial mound with an earthwork ditch and outer bank. Named after a local goblin.
ARBOR LOW STONE CIRCLE AND GIB HILL BARROW
10 miles from Cromford 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.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
11 miles from Cromford 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
11 miles from Cromford 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 Cromford Parish
Pubs in Cromford Parish
Bell Inn
Boat Inn
Scarthin, Cromford, DE4 3QF
(01629) 258083
the-boat-inn.co.uk
Cromford Community Centre
Greyhound Hotel
Market Place, Cromford, DE4 3QE
(01629) 823172
thegreyhoundatcromford.co.uk