English Heritage sites near Ravenstone with Snibstone Parish
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
3 miles from Ravenstone with Snibstone 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
10 miles from Ravenstone with Snibstone 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
13 miles from Ravenstone with Snibstone 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.
WALL ROMAN SITE
19 miles from Ravenstone with Snibstone 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.
WINGFIELD MANOR
25 miles from Ravenstone with Snibstone 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.
CROXDEN ABBEY
26 miles from Ravenstone with Snibstone 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.
Churches in Ravenstone with Snibstone Parish
Ravenstone: St Michael & All Angels
Church Lane
Ravenstone
Coalville
(01530) 810655
St Michael & All Angels is the Parish Church of Ravenstone, a medium sized village situated 2 miles south east of Coalville, in the Northwest area of Leicestershire.
The Church is situated on the northern fringe of the village at the junction of Church Lane, Main Street and Hospital Lane. It lies in a picturesque heart of the village opposite Ravenstone Hospital (the Almshouses) and close to the impressive Ravenstone Hall. This part of the village has been designated a conservation area.
Services are held at St Michael & All Angels every week except when there is a fifth Sunday in the month and we join Christ Church, Coalville and St Peter's, Bardon Hill for a joint benefice service.
Pubs in Ravenstone with Snibstone Parish
Kings Arms
Church Lane, Ravenstone, LE67 2AF
(01530) 815124
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Plough
Plough, Ravenstone