Scheduled monuments in South Derbyshire facts for kids

This is a list of scheduled monuments in the district of South Derbyshire in the English county of Derbyshire.

In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is a "nationally important" archaeological site or historic building that has been given protection against unauthorised change by being placed on a list (or "schedule") by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport; English Heritage takes the leading role in identifying such sites. Scheduled monuments are defined in the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 and the National Heritage Act 1983. There are about 20,000 scheduled monument entries on the list, which is maintained by English Heritage; more than one site can be included in a single entry.

While a scheduled monument can also be recognised as a listed building, English Heritage considers listed building status as a better way of protecting buildings than scheduled monument status. If a monument is considered by English Heritage to "no longer merit scheduling" it can be descheduled.

Derbyshire has over 500 scheduled monuments including many stone cairns, stone circles, barrow burial mounds, lead mining relics, ancient settlements, and over 20 bridges.

Image	Name and reference	Feature	Location	Notes
	Barton Blount medieval settlement remains	Settlement	Barton Blount	Including a chapel, decoy pond and part of the open field system. 340m North of Barton Hall.
	Bretby Castle fortified manor	Castle	Bretby	Remains of manor house buildings from the 13th to 17th century with bank and ditch defences.
	Calke Park Tunnel	Tunnel	Ticknall
	Castle Gresley motte and bailey castle	Castle	Castle Gresley
	Dovecote	Dovecote	Netherseal	85m south of Netherseal Old Hall. Also a Grade II* listed building.
	Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite	Military	Elvaston	340m SE of Gardens Farm
	Henge complex NW of Hickens Bridge	Henge	Shardlow and Great Wilne
	Hoon Mount platformed bowl barrow	Barrow	Hoon
	Iron Age settlement and cursus, SE of Aston-on-Trent	Settlement	Aston Moor, Shardlow and Great Wilne
	Medieval church and cross near St George's Church	Cross	Ticknall	45m south of St George's Church
	Melbourne Castle fortified manor and earlier medieval manorial remains	Castle	Melbourne	A medieval castle built on the site of an earlier royal manor house in the reign of King John. Construction of the castle was started in 1311 and continued until 1322, but the work was never fully completed. Also a Grade II listed building.
	Monks Bridge	Bridge	Egginton
	Settlement site	Settlement	Aston upon Trent
	Settlement site and enclosures	Settlement	Twyford and Stenson
	Sharrow Hall moated site and associated road, driveway, dovecote, enclosures and ridge and furrow	Moated site	Osleston and Thurvaston
	Shrunken medieval village and moated site at Thurvaston	Settlement	Osleston and Thurvaston
	Slight univallate hillfort	Fort	Walton upon Trent	230m SW of Old Hall Cottages
	Swarkestone Bridge	Bridge	Swarkestone	Medieval bridge crossing the River Trent between the villages of Swarkestone and Stanton. Also a Grade I listed building.
	Swarkestone Lows round barrow cemetery and part of an aggregate field system	Barrow	Swarkestone	300m north-west of The Lowes Farm
	Twyford henge and Round Hill bowl barrow	Henge	Twyford and Stenson
Heath Wood	Viking barrow cemetery in Heath Wood	Barrow	Ingleby	Heath Wood contains a series of 59 barrows (burial mounds), which is the only known Scandinavian cremation site in the British Isles.