English Heritage sites near Bilsthorpe Parish
RUFFORD ABBEY
3 miles from Bilsthorpe 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.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
12 miles from Bilsthorpe 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.
BOLSOVER CASTLE
13 miles from Bilsthorpe 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.'
BOLSOVER CUNDY HOUSE
13 miles from Bilsthorpe Parish
This charming cottage-like 17th-century conduit house, with vaulted stone-slab roof, once supplied water to Bolsover Castle.
SUTTON SCARSDALE HALL
14 miles from Bilsthorpe 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.
WINGFIELD MANOR
17 miles from Bilsthorpe 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.
Churches in Bilsthorpe Parish
St Margaret
St Margarets Church Bilsthorpe is a small church, with a good mix of age groups attending weekly services. Our worship is traditional Anglican with organ music and a choir.
We are part of a family of 12 churches including Ollerton with Boughton, Kneesall, Laxton with Moorhouse, Wellow, with Rufford, Walesby, Kirton, Egmanton, Bilsthorpe & Eakring. Ollerton serves as the administration hub for the family of churches and Revd Zoe Burton is our Priest-in-Charge.
Normal Pattern of Services
1st Sunday Worship for All 10.30am
2nd Sunday Holy Communion 10.30am
3rd Sunday Morning Prayer 10.30am. Bilsthorpe Community Praise (held in Bilsthorpe Miners Welfare) 4pm
4th Sunday Holy Communion 10.30am
Occasionally the service pattern changes in our group, for more information and for where the 5th Sunday service of the month is, check our hub website http://www.cofe-ollerton.org.uk
For christenings and weddings, check out this website.
Pubs in Bilsthorpe Parish
Copper Beech
Kirklington Road, Bilsthorpe, NG22 8SS
(01623) 870725
thecopperbeech.co.uk