English Heritage sites near Birchover Parish
NINE LADIES STONE CIRCLE
1 miles from Birchover Parish
A small early Bronze Age stone circle of (actually) ten stones. Believed to be nine ladies turned to stone as a penalty for dancing on Sunday.
HOB HURST'S HOUSE
5 miles from Birchover Parish
A square prehistoric burial mound with an earthwork ditch and outer bank. Named after a local goblin.
ARBOR LOW STONE CIRCLE AND GIB HILL BARROW
5 miles from Birchover Parish
The region's most important prehistoric site, Arbor Low is a Neolithic henge monument atmospherically set in high moorland. A circle of some 50 white limestone slabs within an earthen bank and ditch.
WINGFIELD MANOR
9 miles from Birchover 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.
SUTTON SCARSDALE HALL
13 miles from Birchover 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.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
14 miles from Birchover 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.
Churches in Birchover Parish
St Michael's Church, Birchover
St Michael's church,
Main Street,
Birchover,
Matlock,
Derbyshire
(01629) 653895
Birchover church is at the western end of this former quarrying village. A part of the benefice of "Youlgrave with Middleton,
Stanton-in-Peak and Birchover", it serves a community of approximately 300 people of all ages.
Our Team
Vicar
The Reverend Adele Barker is Priest in Charge for churches in both the White Peak and Youlgrave benefices.
The Reverend Adele Barker
The New Vicarage
Conksbury Lane
Youlgreave
Bakewell
DE45 1WR
Tel: 01629 630409
Mobile: 07946 154852
Email: [email protected]
Churchwarden
Mrs Corrynne Osborne telephone: (01629) 653895 email : [email protected]
Weddings
Mrs Denise Figg email: [email protected]
Safeguarding
In the event of a safeguarding concern, please contact the Reverend Adele Barker, contact details above
Website administrator -
Phillip Neal email : [email protected]
Pubs in Birchover Parish
Druid Inn
Main St, Birchover, DE4 2BL
(01629) 650424
druidbirchover.co.uk/
Red Lion Inn
Main St, Birchover, DE4 2BN
(01629) 650363
red-lion-birchover.co.uk/