English Heritage sites near Fishburn Parish
AUCKLAND CASTLE DEER HOUSE
9 miles from Fishburn 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.
FINCHALE PRIORY
10 miles from Fishburn 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.
PIERCEBRIDGE ROMAN BRIDGE
14 miles from Fishburn Parish
Stonework foundations, now marooned in a field, of a bridge which once led to Piercebridge Roman Fort.
HYLTON CASTLE
17 miles from Fishburn 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.
STANWICK IRON AGE FORTIFICATIONS
17 miles from Fishburn 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.
GISBOROUGH PRIORY
19 miles from Fishburn Parish
The ruins of an Augustinian priory founded by the Bruce family, afterwards Kings of Scotland. They are dominated by the dramatic skeleton of the 14th-century church's east end.
Churches in Fishburn Parish
St Catherine
Front Street, Fishburn
Fishburn
01429 882115
http://www.upperskerne.org.uk
Bookings for Baptisms and Weddings
To enquire about baptisms and weddings, please come along to our vestry hour , from 5.30pm -6.30pm on Wednesdays. This will alternate between St Edmund's in Sedgefield and St Mary Magdalene's in Trimdon Village.
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