English Heritage sites near Green Fairfield Parish
PEVERIL CASTLE
7 miles from Green Fairfield Parish
Founded soon after 1066 by William Peverel, one of William the Conqueror's most trusted knights, Peveril Castle offers breathtaking views of the Peak District from its position high above Castleton.
ARBOR LOW STONE CIRCLE AND GIB HILL BARROW
8 miles from Green Fairfield 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
12 miles from Green Fairfield 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.
HOB HURST'S HOUSE
13 miles from Green Fairfield Parish
A square prehistoric burial mound with an earthwork ditch and outer bank. Named after a local goblin.
CROXDEN ABBEY
21 miles from Green Fairfield 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
21 miles from Green Fairfield 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.
No churches found in Green Fairfield Parish
No churches found in Green Fairfield Parish