English Heritage sites near Dunston Parish
BOSCOBEL HOUSE AND THE ROYAL OAK
8 miles from Dunston Parish
Enjoy a day out at Boscobel House and its famous The Royal Oak as you discover one of the most dramatic escape stories in English History. Visitors can explore the restored oak pasture and orchard, get hands-on with history in the house, meet the farmyard animals and have fun in the play area.
WHITE LADIES PRIORY
8 miles from Dunston Parish
Ruins of the late 12th century church of a small nunnery of 'white ladies' or Augustinian Canonesses. Charles II hid nearby in 1651, before moving to Boscobel House.
LILLESHALL ABBEY
11 miles from Dunston Parish
Extensive ruins of an Augustinian abbey, later a Civil War stronghold, in a deeply rural setting.
WALL ROMAN SITE
13 miles from Dunston 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.
CROXDEN ABBEY
17 miles from Dunston 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.
IRON BRIDGE
17 miles from Dunston Parish
The world’s first iron bridge was erected over the River Severn here in 1779 by Abraham Darby III. Costing over £6000, the bridge was cast in his Coalbrookdale foundry, using 378 tons of iron.
Churches in Dunston Parish
Dunston S.Leonard
A449
Dunston
Stafford
07984 530085
https://www.dunstonwithcoppenhall.org
A chapel has occupied the site of St Leonard's since 1445, with the current church having been built between 1876 and 1878. The church can seat 100+.
The small congregation is friendly and welcoming. Services take place at 11am every Sunday morning and include Holy Communion, Morning Prayer, Celtic services and themed Family Services (on the first Sunday of each month). Tea, coffee, biscuts and cakes are a popular conclusion to morning worship.
St Leonard's Church has strong links with the first school that bears its name. The school holds all their services for major festivals at the church, inviting families and friends to come along, and the children also come at other times of the year for acts of worship and learning.
No churches found in Dunston Parish