English Heritage sites near Whaplode Parish
SIBSEY TRADER WINDMILL
17 miles from Whaplode Parish
Built in 1877, this restored six storey mill with complete gear, sails and fantail still works today.
LONGTHORPE TOWER
18 miles from Whaplode Parish
Longthorpe Tower displays one of the most complete and important sets of 14th century domestic wall paintings in northern Europe.
CASTLE RISING CASTLE
21 miles from Whaplode Parish
One of the largest, best preserved and most lavishly decorated keeps in England, surrounded by 20 acres of mighty earthworks.
TATTERSHALL COLLEGE
23 miles from Whaplode Parish
Remains of a grammar school for church choristers, founded in the mid-15th century by Ralph, Lord Cromwell, the builder of nearby Tattershall Castle (National Trust).
APETHORPE PALACE
25 miles from Whaplode Parish
Stately Apethorpe Palace, owned by Elizabeth I, then favourite Royal residence for James I and Charles I, has one of the country's most complete Jacobean interiors.
BOLINGBROKE CASTLE
26 miles from Whaplode Parish
The remains of a 13th-century hexagonal castle, birthplace in 1367 of the future King Henry IV, with adjacent earthworks. Besieged and taken by Cromwell's Parliamentarians in 1643.
Churches in Whaplode Parish
St John the Baptist
St Mary Whaplode
Pubs in Whaplode Parish
Bluebell Inn
Cranesgate South, Whaplode St Catherine, PE12 6SN
(01406) 540300
thebluebell.net
Lamb & Flag
Lamb & Flag, Whaplode
New Saracens Head
A traditional village pub,with the accent on pub games. It was a drinking inn from 1850. The old blackboard above the bar states that C Slator was licensed to sell beer on or off the premises and a dealer in tobacco. Bank holiday opening...
White Horse
Closed. Now a house