English Heritage sites near Blithfield Parish
CROXDEN ABBEY
9 miles from Blithfield 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.
WALL ROMAN SITE
12 miles from Blithfield 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.
BOSCOBEL HOUSE AND THE ROYAL OAK
17 miles from Blithfield 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
17 miles from Blithfield 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.
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
20 miles from Blithfield 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.
LILLESHALL ABBEY
20 miles from Blithfield Parish
Extensive ruins of an Augustinian abbey, later a Civil War stronghold, in a deeply rural setting.
Churches in Blithfield Parish
Blithfield - St.Leonard
Off Lea Lane, Blithfield
Rugeley
(01283) 840242
The church site has had a place of worship since 11th Century and is mentioned in the Domesday Book. Architecture is partially Norman with some fine stained glass, ancient and modern.
There are many artefacts concerning the Bagot family whose seat is Blithfield Hall, next to the church. Wooden pews are 400 years old. The church flooring comprises ceramic tiling and is unusual in that there is a step down from the nave to the chancel. There is a carved Rood Screen.
There is a fine pipe organ, overhauled, modernised and enlarged in 1965.
Peal of six bells.
No churches found in Blithfield Parish