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.

Elston is near some unmissable cities like Nottingham,

Don't miss Nottingham Castle's castles if visiting the area around Elston.

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.

The area around Elston's best country parks can be found at Gedling Country Park.

The area around Elston's best shopping centres can be found at Victoria Centre.

Elston History

There are some historic monuments around Elston:

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