English Heritage sites near Oakamoor Parish
CROXDEN ABBEY
3 miles from Oakamoor 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.
ARBOR LOW STONE CIRCLE AND GIB HILL BARROW
13 miles from Oakamoor 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.
NINE LADIES STONE CIRCLE
17 miles from Oakamoor 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.
SANDBACH CROSSES
21 miles from Oakamoor Parish
The two massive Saxon stone crosses, elaborately carved with animals and Biblical scenes including the Nativity of Christ and the Crucifixion, dominate the cobbled market square of Sandbach.
HOB HURST'S HOUSE
21 miles from Oakamoor Parish
A square prehistoric burial mound with an earthwork ditch and outer bank. Named after a local goblin.
WINGFIELD MANOR
21 miles from Oakamoor 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.
No churches found in Oakamoor Parish
Pubs in Oakamoor Parish
Admiral Jervis Inn
Cricketers Arms
Lord Nelson
Olde Star Inn
Star Bank, Cotton, ST10 3DW
(01538) 703655
thestaratcotton.co.uk/