Glaston is a Village in the county of Rutland.

Retail in Glaston

There are great places to visit near Glaston including some great towns, villages and lakes.

Towns to visit near Glaston include Oakham.

The area around Glaston's best villages can be found at Wakerley.

Rutland Water is a great place to visit close to Glaston if you like lakes.

Glaston History

There are some historic monuments around Glaston:

• Earthwork in Morcott Spinney
• Martinsthorpe deserted medieval village
• Butter Cross and stocks
• Iron Age enclosure
• Moated site at North Luffenham
• Exton Old Hall
• Little Weldon Roman villa
• Rockingham Castle, shrunken medieval village, moat and warrens
• Barnhill moated site at Hambleton
• Castle Hill motte and bailey, Beaumont Chase
• Church Bridge
• Bronze Age enclosure
• Bridge over River Chater
• Deserted medieval village on A6003, Snelston
• Roundhouse or lock-up
• Moated site with fishponds and enclosures at Empingham
• Lyddington Bedehouse: a medieval bishop's palace and post-medieval almshouse with moat, gardens, fishponds and cultivation remains
• Market cross 10m west of Cross Farmhouse
• Manor house and gardens
• Standing cross on The Green, 130m north west of The Bede House
• Oakham motte and bailey castle and medieval gardens
• Dovecot and arch, formerly lodge of Brooke House
• Village cross at junction of Well Cross and King Edward's Way
• Wakerley Bridge
• Dovecote 170m north east of the junction between Main Street and Exton Road
• Maze 220m south east of St Peter and St Paul's Church
• Kirby Hall: an Elizabethan country house and gardens, including the remains of the medieval village of Kirby
• Moated site 1km south west of Rockingham Castle