English Heritage sites near Osgathorpe Parish
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
5 miles from Osgathorpe 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
11 miles from Osgathorpe 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
13 miles from Osgathorpe 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.
WALL ROMAN SITE
22 miles from Osgathorpe 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.
WINGFIELD MANOR
22 miles from Osgathorpe 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.
CROXDEN ABBEY
26 miles from Osgathorpe 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.
Churches in Osgathorpe Parish
Osgathorpe: St Mary the Virgin
Pubs in Osgathorpe Parish
George & Dragon
Ashby Road, Thringstone, LE67 8UH
(01530) 222282
georgeanddragonthringstone.co.uk/