English Heritage sites near Wellow Parish
RUFFORD ABBEY
2 miles from Wellow 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.
BOLSOVER CASTLE
13 miles from Wellow 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 Wellow Parish
This charming cottage-like 17th-century conduit house, with vaulted stone-slab roof, once supplied water to Bolsover Castle.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
14 miles from Wellow 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.
MATTERSEY PRIORY
15 miles from Wellow Parish
The remains, mainly the 13th century refectory and kitchen, of a small monastery for just six Gilbertine canons - the only wholly English monastic order.
SUTTON SCARSDALE HALL
15 miles from Wellow 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.
No churches found in Wellow Parish
Pubs in Wellow Parish
Maypole Inn
This was formerly the Durham Ox. The building underwent a massive refurbishment and had extra letting rooms added to this upper echelon eating establishment. The staff are very welcoming. There is ample car parking and a sizable smoking are...
Olde Red Lion
This 400-year-old village pub is situated on the village green with its maypole and the pub participates in a large event on May Day. The traditional wood-beamed interior includes a restaurant, lounge and bar areas. Photographs and maps dep...