English Heritage sites near Newborough Parish
CROXDEN ABBEY
9 miles from Newborough 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
12 miles from Newborough 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.
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
16 miles from Newborough 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.
BOSCOBEL HOUSE AND THE ROYAL OAK
21 miles from Newborough 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
22 miles from Newborough 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.
ARBOR LOW STONE CIRCLE AND GIB HILL BARROW
23 miles from Newborough 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 Newborough Parish
Newborough All Saints
Yoxall Road, Newborough
Newborough
Burton-on-Trent
01283 575743
Our present church stands on the site of previous church and chapel buildings, the earliest dating back to the early 14th century. This church was opened and dedicated to All Saints on Friday April 19th 1901. Its architect was Mr J Oldrid Scott, the uncle of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott who designed Liverpool Anglican Cathedral and Battersea Power Station. Its most striking feature is the Tower, which, with square lower stages, leads through an octagonal upper part, which is very tall in proportion and which is surmounted by a lofty, lead covered spire. Its total height is 112 feet.
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The four old bells from the previous church were recast and a fifth added. The old font was used and the choir stalls came from Rangemore church. Many items were presented in memory of loved ones, including the east window, the pulpit, the chancel screen, the Cross and candle-sticks, the reredos and the fine Tree manual organ, which has 21 speaking stops, additional coupler and toe positions. It was built in 1865.The grey stone of which the church is built was brought from Pately Bridge and the red stone from Hollington. The tiles of the old church were used on the new, the old bricks were used in the foundations,the white stonework from round the windows and doors was reused in the new vestry.
Pubs in Newborough Parish
Red Lion
Duffield Lane, Newborough, DE13 8SH
(01283) 576182
redlionnewborough.co.uk/