English Heritage sites near Eakring Parish
RUFFORD ABBEY
3 miles from Eakring 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.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
13 miles from Eakring 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.
BOLSOVER CASTLE
14 miles from Eakring 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
14 miles from Eakring Parish
This charming cottage-like 17th-century conduit house, with vaulted stone-slab roof, once supplied water to Bolsover Castle.
SUTTON SCARSDALE HALL
15 miles from Eakring 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.
MATTERSEY PRIORY
17 miles from Eakring 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.
Churches in Eakring Parish
Eakring: St Andrew
Kirklington Road
Eakring
Newark
01623 870517
http://www.st-andrews-eakring.org.uk
Welcome to St. Andrews! We're located in the beautiful Nottinghamshire village of Eakring, surrounded by lovely countryside. We'd love you to visit our church - you'd be made very welcome.
St Andrews was much restored during the late 1800's, but the tower still has sections dating from the 13th & 15th centuries. One of our bells was hung during the Reformation, the font dates back to 1674 and the pulpit is Jacobean. Our most famous Rector was William Mompesson, the hero of the Eyam Plague, who ministered in the village from 1671 up until his death in 1708.