English Heritage sites near Brooke Parish
LYDDINGTON BEDE HOUSE
6 miles from Brooke Parish
Set beside the church of a picturesque ironstone village, Lyddington Bede House originated as the late medieval wing of a palace belonging to the Bishops of Lincoln.
KIRBY HALL
10 miles from Brooke Parish
Kirby Hall is one of England's greatest Elizabethan and 17th-century houses. Begun by Sir Humphrey Stafford, it was purchased by Sir Christopher Hatton, one of Queen Elizabeth's 'comely young men'.
APETHORPE PALACE
13 miles from Brooke Parish
Stately Apethorpe Palace, owned by Elizabeth I, then favourite Royal residence for James I and Charles I, has one of the country's most complete Jacobean interiors.
RUSHTON TRIANGULAR LODGE
14 miles from Brooke Parish
This delightful triangular building was designed by Sir Thomas Tresham (father of one of the Gunpowder Plotters) and constructed between 1593 and 1597.
ELEANOR CROSS, GEDDINGTON
15 miles from Brooke Parish
In 1290 Eleanor of Castile, the beloved wife of Edward I and mother of his 14 children, died at Harby in Nottinghamshire.
JEWRY WALL
16 miles from Brooke Parish
A length of Roman bath-house wall over 9 metres (30 feet) high, near a museum displaying the archaeology of Leicester and its region.
Churches in Brooke Parish
Brooke: St Peter
Church Lane
Brooke
Oakham
01572 724007
http://www.oakhamteam.org.uk
A gem of an Elizabethan church (The First!) unspoilt by The Victorians, one of Betjeman's 100 best. The Church is opened every day from about 09:00 to about 17:00
No churches found in Brooke Parish