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, country parks and shopping centres.

The area around Elston's best cities can be found at Nottingham.

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

Nottingham Castle is one of Elston's best, nearby historic buildings to visit in Elston.

Gedling is a great place to visit close to Elston if you like villages.

Places near Elston feature a number of interesting country parks including Gedling Country Park.

Don't miss Victoria Centre's shopping centres if visiting the area around Elston.

Elston History

There are some historic monuments around Elston:

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