English Heritage sites near Great Brickhill Parish
HOUGHTON HOUSE
10 miles from Great Brickhill 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
11 miles from Great Brickhill 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
12 miles from Great Brickhill 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 Great Brickhill 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 Great Brickhill 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
21 miles from Great Brickhill 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 Great Brickhill Parish
Great Brickhill St Mary the Virgin
Lower Way
Great Brickhill
Milton Keynes
(01525) 261521
http://www.brickhillschurches.org.uk
The Church is a Grade 2* listed building dating back to the 13th. century. The Church can seat 300 people, has a very fine organ and a four-part choir.
Pubs in Great Brickhill Parish
Old Red Lion
Three Locks Golf Club
Partridge House, Partridge Hill, Great Brickhill, MK17 9BH
(01525) 270050
threelocksgolfclub.co.uk/