English Heritage sites near Mavesyn Ridware Parish
WALL ROMAN SITE
8 miles from Mavesyn Ridware 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
13 miles from Mavesyn Ridware 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.
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
17 miles from Mavesyn Ridware 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.
BOSCOBEL HOUSE AND THE ROYAL OAK
17 miles from Mavesyn Ridware Parish
Enjoy a day out at Boscobel House and its famous The Royal Oak as you discover one of the most dramatic escape stories in English History. Visitors can explore the restored oak pasture and orchard, get hands-on with history in the house, meet the farmyard animals and have fun in the play area.
WHITE LADIES PRIORY
18 miles from Mavesyn Ridware Parish
Ruins of the late 12th century church of a small nunnery of 'white ladies' or Augustinian Canonesses. Charles II hid nearby in 1651, before moving to Boscobel House.
J. W. EVANS SILVER FACTORY
20 miles from Mavesyn Ridware Parish
Established in 1881, J. W. Evans is one of the most complete surviving historic factories in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter.
No churches found in Mavesyn Ridware Parish
Pubs in Mavesyn Ridware Parish
Bull & Spectacles
Popular countryside pub and former coaching inn, part of which dates back to the mid-17th-century (when it was built on the site of the 14th-century Kilby Hall) but significantly extended and refurbished during the 20th-century. The large...
Chadwick Arms
Uttoxeter Road, Hill Ridware, WS15 3QX
(01543) 490552
chadwickarms-rugeley.co.uk/