English Heritage sites near Stretton Parish
WINGFIELD MANOR
4 miles from Stretton 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
5 miles from Stretton 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
6 miles from Stretton 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.
HOB HURST'S HOUSE
8 miles from Stretton Parish
A square prehistoric burial mound with an earthwork ditch and outer bank. Named after a local goblin.
BOLSOVER CASTLE
8 miles from Stretton 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
8 miles from Stretton Parish
This charming cottage-like 17th-century conduit house, with vaulted stone-slab roof, once supplied water to Bolsover Castle.
Churches in Stretton Parish
St Mark's Church, Handley
Ashover New Road
Woolley Moor
Alfreton
01246 590246
https://www.amberchurches.org
St Mark covers Handley and Stretton areas in Derbyshire but is actually in the small village of Woolley Moor. The church building used to be the local village school and many of the congregation remember it as that. There are good links with the local CofE primary school and a regular"grape and wafer" service is held with children and parents. St Mark is part of the Mission and Ministry Area of the Amber Churches of Ashover, Brackenfield, Handley and Wessington and the churches enjoy a strong fellowship together. For all services and events, please see our website.
Pubs in Stretton Parish
New Napoleon
White Horse
Badger Lane, Woolley Moor, Alfreton, Woolley Moor, DE55 6FG
(01246) 590319
thewhitehorsewoolleymoor.co.uk