English Heritage sites near Quarndon Parish
WINGFIELD MANOR
9 miles from Quarndon 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.
NINE LADIES STONE CIRCLE
15 miles from Quarndon 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.
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
15 miles from Quarndon 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.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
16 miles from Quarndon 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.
CROXDEN ABBEY
17 miles from Quarndon 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.
ARBOR LOW STONE CIRCLE AND GIB HILL BARROW
18 miles from Quarndon 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.
Churches in Quarndon Parish
St Paul's Quarndon
Church Road
Quarndon
Derby
(01332) 550431
St.Paul's is a Victorian church located at the top of Quarndon village, but the parish also includes part of Allestree, the nearby suburb of Derby. We offer a mix of service types, including a monthly All Age service.
There is also a holiday club for children up to 11, which is run jointly with St, Nicholas' Allestree, usually in the summer.
An up-to-date calendar of events can be found on our Services and events page.