It was built in 1472 by Sir Rowland Lenthall who had distinguished himself at the Battle of Agincourt, taking so many prisoners that he was able to fund the completion of the building.

[3] It was later the ancestral home of the Earl Coningsby,[6] and in the nineteenth century, passed into the hands of Richard Arkwright.

[3] Dinmore Manor, in a valley south-west of the hill, was founded as a preceptory of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem.

[3] It is the private residence of mobile phone tycoon Martin Dawes and no longer open to the general public.

[8] Winsley House, in the west of the parish, is a Grade II listed 14th-century farmhouse with later additions.