English Heritage sites near Woodville Parish
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
3 miles from Woodville Parish
Ashby Castle forms the backdrop to the famous jousting scenes in Sir Walter Scott's classic novel of 1819, Ivanhoe. Now a ruin, the castle began as a manor house in the 12th century.
WALL ROMAN SITE
16 miles from Woodville Parish
Wall was an important staging post on Watling Street, the Roman military road to North Wales. It provided overnight accommodation for travelling Roman officials and imperial messengers.
KIRBY MUXLOE CASTLE
16 miles from Woodville Parish
The picturesque moated remains - including the fine gatehouse and a complete corner tower - of this brick-built fortified mansion have recently been extensively conserved by English Heritage.
JEWRY WALL
19 miles from Woodville 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.
CROXDEN ABBEY
20 miles from Woodville 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.
WINGFIELD MANOR
22 miles from Woodville 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 Woodville Parish
Woodville: St Stephen
Moira Road
Woodville
Swadlincote
07813 214 462
https://christtheredeemer.uk
Woodville can lay no claims to be a beauty spot or to possess a wealth of ancient buildings. The parish Church of Saint Stephen is one of the few buildings that lays any claim to antiquity. It was in 1843 that the Rev. J.B. Sweet came to Ashby-De-La-Zouch in the diocese of Peterborough as a curate. He took special charge of the district then known as ‘Wooden Box', the turnpike road from Ashby to Burton, of which all that remains is ‘Woodville Tollgate'.
Only three months after his arrival, Rev. Sweet called a meeting to raise funds for the building of a church to serve the population of some 650 people which by then were resident in the district. This committee met for the first time on Saint Stephen's day, 1843 and hence the decision to dedicate the new church in honour of Saint Stephen. Queen Adelaide appears to have taken some interest in the projected building of the church and to have contributed towards its cost.
Her interest in the locality is no doubt perpetuated by the name of the Queen Adelaide public house which used to stand in the High Street.
In 1845 enough money had been raised to justify work being commenced, though as late as April 1846 the building committee had to send out an urgent appeal for £835 still needed to complete the building and a very modest endowment of the living. It was in connection with the formation of a new Parish that the worthy inhabitants of those days expressed a wish for a more ‘euphonious' name than wooden box and at their request the new chapelry as it was called, was renamed Woodville.
On November 7th, 1845 the foundation stone of the new church was laid by Earl Howe. By December 8th, 1846, the church was ready for consecration and an imposing service took place at 11.00am that morning, in the presence of many local clergy, the chief inhabitants of the district and some notable visitors. The Lord Bishop of Peterborough, duly consecrated the church with the Rev. J.B. Sweet as the first vicar.
Pubs in Woodville Parish
Joiners Arms
Privately-owned (by local consortium) popular end-terrace Victorian community pub, with sports and pub games orientated clientele. Two linked rooms form a U-shape around a central serving area: main bar at front and small games room (with...
Nelson Inn
A lively locals pub featuring a large public bar (with large screen projector TV), with a pool room behind. There is a rarely used but comfortable and quieter lounge. (A function/meeting room upstairs, with its own bar counter, hasn't been...
New Inn
Busy community pub featuring a public bar at the rear and a smart, narrow lounge at the front. The former dining room, off the lounge, is currently set out for darts, with 5 dart boards. Indeed, the pub is very popular with pub games enthus...
Rising Sun
Basic but comfortable side-street Victorian local with linked main bar and pool room in L-shape. Increasingly popular and lively through efforts of new landlady, with karaoke, disco or live music most Friday and Saturday evenings, plus occ...
Woodville Working Men's Club
3 High Street, Woodville, Woodville, DE11 7EH
(01283) 215278