6 miles from Shireoaks Parish

Roche Abbey has one of the most complete ground plans of any English Cistercian monastery, laid out as excavated foundations.

8 miles from Shireoaks Parish

This charming cottage-like 17th-century conduit house, with vaulted stone-slab roof, once supplied water to Bolsover Castle.

8 miles from Shireoaks Parish

'By an unlikely miracle, the keep at Bolsover has survived into this century as an almost untouched expression in stone of the lost world of Elizabethan chivalry and romance.'

10 miles from Shireoaks 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.

11 miles from Shireoaks Parish

The remains, mainly the 13th century refectory and kitchen, of a small monastery for just six Gilbertine canons - the only wholly English monastic order.

11 miles from Shireoaks 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.