English Heritage sites near Astley Parish
KENILWORTH CASTLE AND ELIZABETHAN GARDEN
10 miles from Astley Parish
Once home to Robert Dudley, the great love of Queen Elizabeth I. Today you can walk in the beautifully recreated Elizabethan garden and marvel at the mighty Norman keep.
J. W. EVANS SILVER FACTORY
15 miles from Astley Parish
Established in 1881, J. W. Evans is one of the most complete surviving historic factories in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter.
KIRBY MUXLOE CASTLE
17 miles from Astley 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.
WALL ROMAN SITE
17 miles from Astley 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.
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
18 miles from Astley 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.
JEWRY WALL
20 miles from Astley 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.
Churches in Astley Parish
Astley - St. Mary the Virgin
Nuthurst Lane
Astley
Coventry
(024) 7638 3010
http://www.astleychurch.org
The Church now consists of a Nave, a massive Tower at the west end, and a Chancel to the east.
The present Nave formerly only the Quire (or Chancel) of a large Collegiate Church, comprising of a central Tower, Quire, Nave and Transepts both North and South of the Tower. Also including a large Sacristy or vestry on the north side of the Quire, the blocked doorways to which can be seen both in the buttress outside, and centrally along the wall inside.
No churches found in Astley Parish