English Heritage sites near Croxdale and Hett Parish
AUCKLAND CASTLE DEER HOUSE
6 miles from Croxdale and Hett Parish
A charming Gothic Revival 'eyecatcher' built in 1760 in the park of the Bishops of Durham. It provided deer with shelter and food, and had grounds for picnics and rooms for enjoying the view.
FINCHALE PRIORY
6 miles from Croxdale and Hett Parish
The very extensive remains of a 13th-century priory, founded on the site of a retired pirate's hermitage. Part of it later served as a holiday retreat for the monks of Durham Cathedral.
HYLTON CASTLE
14 miles from Croxdale and Hett Parish
The distinctive and highly decorative gatehouse-tower of a castle built by the wealthy Sir William Hylton, shortly before 1400. Originally containing four floors of self-contained family.
PIERCEBRIDGE ROMAN BRIDGE
14 miles from Croxdale and Hett Parish
Stonework foundations, now marooned in a field, of a bridge which once led to Piercebridge Roman Fort.
DERWENTCOTE STEEL FURNACE
15 miles from Croxdale and Hett Parish
Built in the 1720s, Derwentcote is the earliest and most complete steel-making furnace in Britain. It produced high-grade steel for springs and cutting tools.
STANWICK IRON AGE FORTIFICATIONS
17 miles from Croxdale and Hett Parish
An excavated section, part cut into rock, of the ramparts of the huge Iron Age trading and power-centre of the Brigantes, the most important tribe in pre- Roman northern Britain.
No churches found in Croxdale and Hett Parish