Elston is a Village in the county of Nottinghamshire.

Retail in Elston

There are great places to visit near Elston including some great cities, castles, historic buildings, villages, shopping centres and country parks.

Nottingham is a great place to visit close to Elston if you like cities.

Nottingham Castle is a great place to visit close to Elston if you like castles.

Places near Elston feature a number of interesting historic buildings including Nottingham Castle.

Gedling is one of Elston's best, nearby villages to visit in Elston.

Victoria Centre is a great place to visit close to Elston if you like shopping centres.

There are a several good country parks in the area around Elston like Gedling Country Park.

Elston History

There are some historic monuments around Elston:

• Moated site, fishponds and decoy pond 490m north west of Park Spring Farm
• Kilvington medieval settlement and part of an open field system, 400m south west of Staunton Hall
• Settlement site at Morton
• Civil War redoubt 580m ENE of sugar refinery
• Gun platform 440m south east of Muskham Bridge
• Civil War redoubt 550m south east of Valley Farm
• Margidunum Roman Station
• Medieval settlement and remains of open fields immediately west of East Stoke village
• Muston village cross, 70m east of Mountain Ash Farm
• Rolleston manor: three moats, eight fishponds with sluices, ridge and furrow and a leat
• Site of pit alignments
• Civil War redoubt 680m north west of Dairy Farm
• Iron Age settlement
• Two moats and five fishponds at Top Green
• Roman villa complex and Anglo-Saxon cemetery, Southwell
• Fleming's Bridge
• Village cross at junction of Grantham Road and Market Street
• Cranmer's Mound: motte castle, prospect mound, moated fishponds, enclosure, hollow way and ridge and furrow
• Civil War redoubt on Beacon Hill, 550m north west of The Firs
• Castle Hill
• Moated site 750m north west of Dairy Farm
• Newark Castle
• Civil War Sconce 150m west of Muskham Bridge
• Site of Ad Pontem, Stoke by Newark
• Little Carlton medieval village and part of the meadow field system
• Civil War town defences within the Friary Garden
• Averham moat and enclosure
• Medieval village including monastic college, chapel, moat, fishponds, dovecote and open field system 200m south of Manor Farm
• Standing cross known as Beaumond Cross
• Moat, two fishponds, boundary bank and ditch and two leats
• Moated grange with fishpond at Muston
• Henge 850m south east of Foss Road Farm
• Shifted medieval village earthworks and moat at Easthorpe
• Queen's Sconce
• Civil War redoubt on Crankley Point
• Standing cross 140m north of The Old Hall
• Hawton moated site, fishpond, Civil War redoubt and ridge and furrow
• Minor Romano-British villa, moat and associated medieval manorial and village earthworks, including six fishponds
• Bowl barrow 160m south east of Wharf Farm
• Civil War fieldwork on Crankley Point
• Timber circle 430m north east of Stoke Fields Farm
• Archbishop's Palace
• Dovecote 240m east of Home Farm
• Bingham medieval settlement, immediately west of Carnarvon School
• Civil War sconce 650m north west of Devon Bridge
• Langford medieval village, including moat and open field system, 450m north west of Elmtree Farm
• Newark town wall (Lombard Street)