English Heritage sites near Kniveton Parish
NINE LADIES STONE CIRCLE
9 miles from Kniveton 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.
ARBOR LOW STONE CIRCLE AND GIB HILL BARROW
9 miles from Kniveton 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.
CROXDEN ABBEY
11 miles from Kniveton Parish
The impressive remains of an abbey of Cistercian 'white monks', including towering fragments of its 13th-century church, infirmary and 14th-century abbot's lodging.
WINGFIELD MANOR
11 miles from Kniveton 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.
HOB HURST'S HOUSE
13 miles from Kniveton Parish
A square prehistoric burial mound with an earthwork ditch and outer bank. Named after a local goblin.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
18 miles from Kniveton 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.
Churches in Kniveton Parish
St Michael & All Angels, Kniveton
Pubs in Kniveton Parish
Ketch
Re-opened under original name Sep 2022 after a short spell under a different name and operator.
Red Lion at Kniveton
Attractive stone pub on the main road through the village. Changed hands Feb 2020, now run by local couple who also own a cider company. Good well-kept range of beers from local breweries including Dovedale & Aldwark, and a great emphasis o...