English Heritage sites near Unstone Parish
SUTTON SCARSDALE HALL
6 miles from Unstone 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.
BOLSOVER CUNDY HOUSE
7 miles from Unstone Parish
This charming cottage-like 17th-century conduit house, with vaulted stone-slab roof, once supplied water to Bolsover Castle.
BOLSOVER CASTLE
7 miles from Unstone 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.'
HOB HURST'S HOUSE
8 miles from Unstone Parish
A square prehistoric burial mound with an earthwork ditch and outer bank. Named after a local goblin.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
10 miles from Unstone 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.
NINE LADIES STONE CIRCLE
12 miles from Unstone 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.
Churches in Unstone Parish
Pubs in Unstone Parish
Barrack Inn
Devonshire Arms
Westfield La, Middle Handley, S21 5RN
(01246) 434800
devonshirearmsmiddlehandley.com
Drone Valley Brewery
Main Road, Unstone, S18 4AB
07794 277091
dronevalleybrewery.com