English Heritage sites near Stoke Hammond Parish
HOUGHTON HOUSE
11 miles from Stoke Hammond Parish
Houghton House today is the shell of a 17th century mansion commanding magnificent views, reputedly the inspiration for the ‘House Beautiful’ in John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress.
DE GREY MAUSOLEUM, FLITTON
12 miles from Stoke Hammond Parish
Among the largest sepulchral chapels attached to any English church, this cruciform mausoleum houses a remarkable sequence of 17 sculpted and effigied monuments.
WREST PARK
14 miles from Stoke Hammond Parish
Explore the evolution of the English garden and take a stroll through three centuries of landscape design at Wrest Park.
BERKHAMSTED CASTLE
15 miles from Stoke Hammond Parish
Visit the substantial remains of a strong and important motte and bailey castle dating from the 11th to 13th centuries, with surrounding walls, ditches and earthworks.
OLD GORHAMBURY HOUSE
20 miles from Stoke Hammond Parish
The remains of a once immense mansion built in 1563-8 by Sir Nicholas Bacon, Queen Elizabeth’s Lord Keeper and visited by the queen on at least four occasions.
ROMAN WALL OF ST ALBANS
22 miles from Stoke Hammond Parish
A section of the two-mile long wall built between AD 265 and 270 to defend the Roman city of Verulamium: including the foundations of towers and the London Gate.
Churches in Stoke Hammond Parish
Stoke Hammond St Luke
Church Road
Stoke Hammond
Milton Keynes
07773 065271
http://www.brickhillschurches.org.uk
The Church was rebuilt in the 17th. century and is one of only three cruciform churches in the county. There is a single manual pipe organ.
Pubs in Stoke Hammond Parish
Dolphin
Leighton Road, Stoke Hammond, MK17 9BB
(01525) 279518
thedolphinstokehammond.co.uk/