English Heritage sites near Tollerton Parish
RUFFORD ABBEY
18 miles from Tollerton 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.
WINGFIELD MANOR
19 miles from Tollerton 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.
JEWRY WALL
19 miles from Tollerton 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.
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
20 miles from Tollerton 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.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
20 miles from Tollerton 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.
KIRBY MUXLOE CASTLE
20 miles from Tollerton 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.
Churches in Tollerton Parish
Tollerton St Peter
Tollerton Lane
Tollerton
Nottingham
01159373814
http://www.stpeters-tollerton.org.uk
The Church offers a varied pattern of worship, from informal family services on the 1st Sunday to Holy Communion on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month and Morning Worship on the 3rd Sunday..
St Peter's deals with a whole range of pastoral needs in the community including weddings, baptisms and funerals. It maintains the only burial site in the village. It hosts a weekly mums and toddlers gathering for lunch at the Church Centre on Thursdays from 12.00 during term time.
There is a housegroup meeting for worship prayer and bible study in members homes on Wednesday evenings.
A sewing and kniting group (Knit and Natter) meets on Tuesdays at he Church Centre (2pm)
We operate a Messy Church jointly with Tollerton Methodist church on the 3rd Friday of the month at 4.30pm at the Methodist Church on Burnside Grove.
Pubs in Tollerton Parish
Air Hostess
Stanstead Avenue, Tollerton, NG12 4EA
(0115) 648 0439
theairhostesstollerton.co.uk