English Heritage sites near Newton Solney Parish
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
7 miles from Newton Solney 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
16 miles from Newton Solney 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
16 miles from Newton Solney 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
19 miles from Newton Solney 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.
KIRBY MUXLOE CASTLE
20 miles from Newton Solney 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
23 miles from Newton Solney 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 Newton Solney Parish
Pubs in Newton Solney Parish
Brickmakers Arms
9-11 Main Street, Newton Solney, DE15 0SJ
07525 220103
brickmakersarms.pub/
Newton Park Hotel
Newton Road, Newton Solney, DE15 0SS
(01283) 305012
mercureburton.co.uk/
Unicorn Inn
This popular local was originally a farmhouse on the Ratcliff family estate (of Bass, Ratcliff & Gretton brewery fame), but became a pub in the late 19th-century.
The plain but bright and tidy interior includes an attractive bar area, feat...