English Heritage sites near Halam Parish
RUFFORD ABBEY
6 miles from Halam Parish
The best-preserved remains of a Cistercian abbey west cloister range in England, dating mainly from about 1170. Incorporated into part of a 17th century and later mansion, set in Rufford Country Park.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
14 miles from Halam 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.
BOLSOVER CASTLE
16 miles from Halam Parish
'By an unlikely miracle, the keep at Bolsover has survived into this century as an almost untouched expression in stone of the lost world of Elizabethan chivalry and romance.'
BOLSOVER CUNDY HOUSE
16 miles from Halam Parish
This charming cottage-like 17th-century conduit house, with vaulted stone-slab roof, once supplied water to Bolsover Castle.
SUTTON SCARSDALE HALL
17 miles from Halam Parish
The imposing shell of a grandiose Georgian mansion built in 1724-29, with an immensely columned exterior. Roofless since 1919, when its interiors were dismantled and some exported to America.
WINGFIELD MANOR
18 miles from Halam 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.
Churches in Halam Parish
St Michael the Archangel
Church Lane
Halam
Nottingham
07824700005
St Michael's Church Halam is a lovely Norman church, dating from about the same time as Southwell Minster, and has some fine examples of stained glass, in particular the 15th century mediaeval 'Adam and Eve’ window located in the chancel. It has a lovely Norman chancel arch much praised by Nicholas Pevsner. A splendid new two-manual organ in Halam Church was installed in January 2010.
Pubs in Halam Parish
Waggon at Halam
The Turnpike, Halam, NG22 8AE
(01636) 813109
waggonhalam.co.uk