English Heritage sites near Fenny Bentley Parish
ARBOR LOW STONE CIRCLE AND GIB HILL BARROW
8 miles from Fenny Bentley Parish
The region's most important prehistoric site, Arbor Low is a Neolithic henge monument atmospherically set in high moorland. A circle of some 50 white limestone slabs within an earthen bank and ditch.
NINE LADIES STONE CIRCLE
9 miles from Fenny Bentley Parish
A small early Bronze Age stone circle of (actually) ten stones. Believed to be nine ladies turned to stone as a penalty for dancing on Sunday.
CROXDEN ABBEY
10 miles from Fenny Bentley 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
12 miles from Fenny Bentley 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.
HOB HURST'S HOUSE
14 miles from Fenny Bentley Parish
A square prehistoric burial mound with an earthwork ditch and outer bank. Named after a local goblin.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
19 miles from Fenny Bentley 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.
Churches in Fenny Bentley Parish
St Edmund King & Martyr
Ashes Lane
Fenny Bentley
Ashbourne
07704831769
http://peakfive.org/
A gem of a church set in a quiet village. Arts and Crafts decorative painting, peaceful, filled with prayers, it is a special hidden treasure.