English Heritage sites near Wall Parish
WALL ROMAN SITE
1 miles from Wall 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.
J. W. EVANS SILVER FACTORY
13 miles from Wall Parish
Established in 1881, J. W. Evans is one of the most complete surviving historic factories in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter.
BOSCOBEL HOUSE AND THE ROYAL OAK
16 miles from Wall 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
17 miles from Wall 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.
HALESOWEN ABBEY
17 miles from Wall Parish
Remains of abbey founded by King John in the 13th century.
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
17 miles from Wall 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.
Churches in Wall Parish
Wall S.John the Baptist
Green Lane
Wall
Lichfield
(01543) 262211
http://www.stmichaelmaryjohn.org.uk
Wall is a small village just south of Lichfield. It lies on the site of the Roman settlement of Letocetum. The parish includes the small villages of Pipehill, Hilton, Chesterfield and the tiny hamlet of Aldershawe, which is about half a mile north of the village of Wall.
The church was built in 1837 and in 1843 was consecrated as the Parish Church of St John. The church's architects were Moffat and Sir Gilbert Scott.
Pubs in Wall Parish
Trooper
Watling Street, Wall, WS14 0AN
(01543) 480413
thetrooperwall.co.uk