English Heritage sites near Colwick Parish
RUFFORD ABBEY
15 miles from Colwick 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.
WINGFIELD MANOR
17 miles from Colwick 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.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
17 miles from Colwick 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.
SUTTON SCARSDALE HALL
21 miles from Colwick 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.
BOLSOVER CASTLE
21 miles from Colwick 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
21 miles from Colwick Parish
This charming cottage-like 17th-century conduit house, with vaulted stone-slab roof, once supplied water to Bolsover Castle.
Churches in Colwick Parish
Colwick: St John the Baptist
Rectory Road
Colwick
Nottingham
Our church is Church of England dedicated to St
John the Baptist and has close links to our village
school of the same name.
The church is situated on teh corner of Rectory Road and Vale Road next to the Community Centre.
The church was built in 1951, although there is a
much earlier church in the grounds of Colwick Hall
which is situated behind the racecourse just down
the road on the way to Nottingham.
On Sunday our service (Parish Eucharist) begins at 9am and lasts
about an hour. Children are very welcome and there
is a Sunday School that takes place during the first
part of the service on 1st, 3rd and 4th Sundays.
For the second Sunday of the month, we have an all age service.
If you would like to come along to one of our
services you will be made very welcome.
Pubs in Colwick Parish
Carlton & District Constitutional Club
Converted to flats in 2016.
Vale Social Club
Vale Social Club, Nottingham