English Heritage sites near Long Whatton and Diseworth Parish
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
8 miles from Long Whatton and Diseworth 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
12 miles from Long Whatton and Diseworth 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
14 miles from Long Whatton and Diseworth 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.
WINGFIELD MANOR
20 miles from Long Whatton and Diseworth 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.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
25 miles from Long Whatton and Diseworth 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.
WALL ROMAN SITE
25 miles from Long Whatton and Diseworth 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.
Churches in Long Whatton and Diseworth Parish
Diseworth: St Michael & All Angels
Long Whatton: All Saints
Pubs in Long Whatton and Diseworth Parish
Bull & Swan
Falcon
Main Street, Long Whatton, LE12 5DG
(01509) 842416
falconlongwhatton.co.uk/
Plough
33 Hall Gate, Diseworth, DE74 2QJ
(01332) 810333
ploughinndiseworth.co.uk/
Royal Oak
26 The Green, Long Whatton, LE12 5DB
(01509) 843694
theroyaloaklongwhatton.co.uk