English Heritage sites near Isley cum Langley Parish
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
6 miles from Isley cum Langley 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.
KIRBY MUXLOE CASTLE
13 miles from Isley cum Langley 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.
JEWRY WALL
16 miles from Isley cum Langley 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.
WINGFIELD MANOR
19 miles from Isley cum Langley 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.
WALL ROMAN SITE
23 miles from Isley cum Langley 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.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
25 miles from Isley cum Langley 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 Isley cum Langley Parish
All Saints Church
No churches found in Isley cum Langley Parish