English Heritage sites near Hamstall Ridware Parish
WALL ROMAN SITE
8 miles from Hamstall Ridware 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.
CROXDEN ABBEY
13 miles from Hamstall Ridware 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.
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
16 miles from Hamstall Ridware 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
18 miles from Hamstall Ridware 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
19 miles from Hamstall Ridware 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.
J. W. EVANS SILVER FACTORY
20 miles from Hamstall Ridware Parish
Established in 1881, J. W. Evans is one of the most complete surviving historic factories in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter.
Churches in Hamstall Ridware Parish
Hamstall Ridware S.Michael and All Angels
Blithbury Road
Hamstall Ridware
Lichfield
Staffordshire
07949 126640
St Michael and All Angels, Hamstall Ridware is part of the United Benefice of Kings Bromley, the Ridwares and Yoxall in the diocese of Lichfield. The congregation is small but welcoming and services follow Common Worship in its more traditional forms.
Details of the services at all four churches can be found under 'Notices' on the News and Notices pages.
Pubs in Hamstall Ridware Parish
Shoulder of Mutton
Yoxall Road, Hamstall Ridware, WS15 3RZ
(01889) 504488
theshoulder.hamstall.co.uk