English Heritage sites near Thorpe Parish
RUFFORD ABBEY
12 miles from Thorpe 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.
LINCOLN MEDIEVAL BISHOPS' PALACE
19 miles from Thorpe Parish
Standing almost in the shadow of Lincoln cathedral, with sweeping views over the ancient city and the countryside beyond.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
21 miles from Thorpe 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
23 miles from Thorpe 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
23 miles from Thorpe Parish
This charming cottage-like 17th-century conduit house, with vaulted stone-slab roof, once supplied water to Bolsover Castle.
SUTTON SCARSDALE HALL
24 miles from Thorpe 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.
Churches in Thorpe Parish
Thorpe: St Laurence
Main Street
Thorpe
01636 525417
During the coronavirus epidemic there will be NO PUBLIC WORSHIP SERVICES in this church. Our sister churches in Farndon and Hawton are going to be open for private prayer and contemplation during this period on the days and times indicated in the "Services and events" section of these pages.
No churches found in Thorpe Parish