English Heritage sites near Creswell Parish
BOSCOBEL HOUSE AND THE ROYAL OAK
12 miles from Creswell 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
13 miles from Creswell 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.
LILLESHALL ABBEY
13 miles from Creswell Parish
Extensive ruins of an Augustinian abbey, later a Civil War stronghold, in a deeply rural setting.
CROXDEN ABBEY
13 miles from Creswell 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.
WALL ROMAN SITE
17 miles from Creswell 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.
IRON BRIDGE
20 miles from Creswell Parish
The world’s first iron bridge was erected over the River Severn here in 1779 by Abraham Darby III. Costing over £6000, the bridge was cast in his Coalbrookdale foundry, using 378 tons of iron.
No churches found in Creswell Parish
Pubs in Creswell Parish
Redhill
1 Spitfire Close, Stafford, ST16 1GX
(01785) 785620
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Shire Horse
1 Hurricane Close, Stafford, ST16 1GZ
(01785) 270700
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