English Heritage sites near Brizlincote Parish
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
7 miles from Brizlincote Parish
Ashby Castle forms the backdrop to the famous jousting scenes in Sir Walter Scott's classic novel of 1819, Ivanhoe. Now a ruin, the castle began as a manor house in the 12th century.
WALL ROMAN SITE
14 miles from Brizlincote Parish
Wall was an important staging post on Watling Street, the Roman military road to North Wales. It provided overnight accommodation for travelling Roman officials and imperial messengers.
CROXDEN ABBEY
17 miles from Brizlincote 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.
KIRBY MUXLOE CASTLE
20 miles from Brizlincote Parish
The picturesque moated remains - including the fine gatehouse and a complete corner tower - of this brick-built fortified mansion have recently been extensively conserved by English Heritage.
WINGFIELD MANOR
21 miles from Brizlincote 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.
JEWRY WALL
23 miles from Brizlincote Parish
A length of Roman bath-house wall over 9 metres (30 feet) high, near a museum displaying the archaeology of Leicester and its region.
No churches found in Brizlincote Parish
Pubs in Brizlincote Parish
Elms Inn
36 Stapenhill Road, Stapenhill, Burton upon Trent, DE15 9AE
(01283) 535505
dorbiere.co.uk/the-elms/
Grove
1 Merrydale Road, Stapenhill, Burton upon Trent, DE15 9DQ
(01283) 561106