English Heritage sites near Bradbury and the Isle Parish
AUCKLAND CASTLE DEER HOUSE
6 miles from Bradbury and the Isle 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.
PIERCEBRIDGE ROMAN BRIDGE
10 miles from Bradbury and the Isle Parish
Stonework foundations, now marooned in a field, of a bridge which once led to Piercebridge Roman Fort.
FINCHALE PRIORY
12 miles from Bradbury and the Isle 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.
STANWICK IRON AGE FORTIFICATIONS
13 miles from Bradbury and the Isle 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.
EGGLESTONE ABBEY
18 miles from Bradbury and the Isle Parish
The charming ruins of a small monastery of Premonstratensian 'white canons', picturesquely set above a bend in the River Tees near Barnard Castle.
BARNARD CASTLE
18 miles from Bradbury and the Isle Parish
Set on a high rock, Barnard Castle takes it name from its 12th-century founder, Bernard de Balliol. It was later developed by the Beauchamp family and then passed into the hands of Richard III.
No churches found in Bradbury and the Isle Parish
No churches found in Bradbury and the Isle Parish