English Heritage sites near Trimdon Foundry Parish
FINCHALE PRIORY
8 miles from Trimdon Foundry 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.
AUCKLAND CASTLE DEER HOUSE
11 miles from Trimdon Foundry 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.
HYLTON CASTLE
14 miles from Trimdon Foundry 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
17 miles from Trimdon Foundry Parish
Stonework foundations, now marooned in a field, of a bridge which once led to Piercebridge Roman Fort.
ST PAUL'S MONASTERY, JARROW
18 miles from Trimdon Foundry Parish
The home of the Venerable Bede, chronicler of the beginnings of English Christianity, Jarrow has become one of the best-understood Anglo-Saxon monastic sites.
STANWICK IRON AGE FORTIFICATIONS
20 miles from Trimdon Foundry 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 Trimdon Foundry Parish
No churches found in Trimdon Foundry Parish