Close to the green is the war memorial to the dead of Exton and Whitwell and to relatives of the Earl of Gainsborough; the names include Tom Cecil Noel MC and Bar and Maurice Dease VC.

[9] Exton Park is a large country estate which has been home to the Noel family (Earls of Gainsborough) for over four centuries.

The present Exton Hall was built in the 19th century close to the ruins of the original Tudor mansion which had burnt down in 1810.

The romantic Fort Henry, a pleasure-house in the elegant late-eighteenth-century Gothick style,[10] overlooks lakes formed by the North Brook.

[11] There is a fine marble monument by Grinling Gibbons, dating from 1685, showing Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden, with his fourth wife, Elizabeth Bertie, and carvings of his 19 children.