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Norfolk - Castles, Cathedrals,
Monuments,
Stately Homes & Palaces
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Since the stone age, man has been
creating majestic structures that we still marvel at
today.
Whether you are interested in ancient monuments,
battlefield sites, re-enactments,
Roman and Norman forts and castles, Stately Homes, Country Houses, Historic
Cathedrals, Ruined Abbeys etc, this is the page that
should give you the information you need.
Here we try to list properties in
private ownership but open to the public (even if only
occasionally) as well as those in the care of the
National Trust or English/Scottish Heritage.
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Denver Windmill Ltd
Sluice Rd, Denver, Downham Market, Norfolk, PE38
0DZ
Tel: 01366 384009
E-mail:
enquiries@denvermill.co.uk
Web:
www.denvermill.co.uk
Denver Windmill was built in 1835 and continued
to grind corn using windpower for over one
hundred years. The windmill stopped work in 1941
when the sails were struck by lightning. Now it
has been lovingly restored to full working order
with new facilities for visitors to enjoy. Once
again flour is being milled using the power of
the wind. Your visit will include a chance to
explore the whole windmill site and enjoy a
unique guided tour right to the very top of the
windmill tower. You will have a chance to see
flour made the traditional way wind permitting!
A new visitor centre tells the story of
windmills, corn milling and the people who lived
and worked in these wonderful buildings. Our own
tearoom and bakery offer a tempting range of
goodies to eat including bread from our own
flour.
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Walsingham Abbey Grounds
Common Place, Little Walsingham, Norfolk, NR22
6BP
Tel: 01328 820510 Fax:
01328 820098
E-mail:
walsingham.museum@farmline.com
Walsingham is one of the most famous and popular
villages in the country. As one of the main
centres for Christian pilgrimage in England, it
attracts thousands of visitors from around the
world who come to visit its shrines, religious
sites and many interesting buildings. The
village has been an important religious site
since 1061 and in 1153 an Augustinian Priory was
founded in the centre of the village. Although
it was destroyed in 1538, the remains of the
Priory and site of the original shrine can still
be seen in the picturesque and tranquil Abbey
Grounds. Entry to the grounds is through the
Shirehall Museum. This 16th century building was
used as a magistrate's court until 1971. The
courtroom has survived unaltered since it was
last used and is now part of the 'hands-on'
museum, which also contains a detailed history
of the village and displays on pilgrimage.
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Castle Rising Castle
Castle Rising, King's Lynn, Norfolk, PE31 6AH
Tel: 01553 631330
E-mail:
info@theheritagetrail.co.uk
Castle Rising is a massive stone ringwork and
bailey. The impressive Norman hall-keep and
handsome fore-building, stands almost concealed
within the formidable bank and ditch of the
central oval enclosure. To the east, a small
square gatehouse is set in the bank with a
fragment of the 14th century brick curtain wall
to one side. A rectangular enclosure strongly
banked and ditched guards the gatehouse and to
the west there is a smaller flanking enclosure.
Also in the inner enclosure are the foundations
of a 11th century Norman chapel, hard against
the bank.
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Castle Acre Priory
Stocks Green, Castle Acre, King's Lynn, Norfolk,
PE32 2AE
Tel: 01760 755394
E-mail:
info@theheritagetrail.co.uk
Web:
www.english-heritage.org.uk
Castle Acre Priory lies a short distance to the
south west of Castle Acre Castle and the village
of Castle Acre. Its ruins span seven centuries
and include a 12th-century church with an
elaborately decorated great west front which
still rises to its full height, a 15th-century
gatehouse and a porch and prior's lodging that
are still fit to live in. Do not miss the modern
herb garden, recreated to grow both culinary and
medicinal herbs.
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Walsingham Abbey
Grounds
Common Place, Little Walsingham, Norfolk, NR22
6BP
Tel: 01328 820510 Fax:
01328 820098
E-mail:
walsingham.museum@farmline.com
Walsingham is one of the most famous and popular
villages in the country. As one of the main
centres for Christian pilgrimage in England, it
attracts thousands of visitors from around the
world who come to visit its shrines, religious
sites and many interesting buildings. The
village has been an important religious site
since 1061 and in 1153 an Augustinian Priory was
founded in the centre of the village. Although
it was destroyed in 1538, the remains of the
Priory and site of the original shrine can still
be seen in the picturesque and tranquil Abbey
Grounds. Entry to the grounds is through the
Shire hall Museum. This 16th century building was
used as a magistrate's court until 1971. The
courtroom has survived unaltered since it was
last used and is now part of the 'hands-on'
museum, which also contains a detailed history
of the village and displays on pilgrimage.
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The Churches Conservation
Trust
E-mail:
central@tcct.org.uk
Web:
www.visitchurches.org.uk
Organisation dedicated to the preservation of
England's Churches. Here you will find a handy
search facility to locate Churches in the area
you plan to visit.
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Blickling Hall
Blickling, Norwich, Norfolk, NR11 6NF
Tel: 01263 738030 Fax:
01263 731660
E-mail:
blickling@nationaltrust.org.uk
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Magnificent Jacobean
house, garden and park.
Built in the early 17th century and one of
England’s great Jacobean houses, Blickling is
famed for its spectacular long gallery, superb
plasterwork ceilings and fine collections of
furniture, pictures, books and tapestries.
The gardens are full of colour throughout the
year and the extensive parkland features a
lake and a series of beautiful woodland and
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Blickling Hall Norfolk -
Photo:
Philip Halling
CCL |
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Felbrigg Hall
Felbrigg, Norwich, Norfolk, NR11 8PR
Tel: 01263 837444 Fax:
01263 837032
E-mail:
felbrigg@ntrust.org.uk
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Felbrigg Hall Norwich -
Photo:
Philip Halling
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One of the finest 17th-century country houses
in East Anglia.
The Hall contains its original 18th-century
furniture, one of the largest collections of
Grand Tour paintings by a single artist, and
an outstanding library.
The Walled Garden has been restored and
features a series of potager gardens, a
working dovecote and the National Collection
of Colchicums.
The park, through which there are waymarked
walks, is well known for its magnificent and
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There are also walks to the church and lake and
through the 200ha (500 acres) of woods.
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Oxburgh Hall, Garden &
Estate
Oxborough, King's Lynn, PE33 9PS
Tel: 01366 328258 Fax:
01366 328066
E-mail:
oxburghhall@nationaltrust.org.uk
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15th-century moated manor
house.
This quintessential Tudor house, with its
magnificent gatehouse and accessible Priest’s
Hole, was built in 1482 by the Bedingfeld
family, who still live here.
The rooms show the development from medieval
austerity to neo-Gothic Victorian comfort, and
include an outstanding display of embroidery
worked by Mary, Queen of Scots and Bess of
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Oxburgh Hall Norfolk -
Photo:
Christine Matthews
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The attractive gardens
feature a French parterre, walled orchard and
kitchen garden. There are delightful woodland
walks and an interesting Catholic chapel.
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Sheringham Park
Upper Sheringham, NR26 8TB
Tel: 01263 823778 Fax:
01263 823778
E-mail:
sheringhampark@nationaltrust.org.uk
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Sheringham Park Norfolk -
Photo:
Stuart Warrington
CCL |
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Landscape park and woodland garden. Designed
in 1812 by Humphry Repton, Sheringham Park is
one of his most outstanding achievements.
The large woodland garden is particularly
famous for its spectacular show of
rhododendrons and azaleas (flowering mid May
to June).
There are stunning views of the coast and
countryside from the viewing towers and many
delightful waymarked walks through the park
and mature woods, including a route to the
North Norfolk Railway Station (a private
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SHARP Investigates a
Norfolk Village
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Holcombe Ingleby, a
Sedgeford, England, resident and owner of
Sedgeford Hall, wrote in 1913 that he had
discovered eight burials "near my house" in
one summer of investigation.
Ingleby suggested that many skeletons had been
uncovered previously in the area, though he
gave no specific dates or locations for those
finds.
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Sedgeford Hall Entrance -
Photo:
Robert Walden
CCL |
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Wingfield Old College
Church Rd, Wingfield, Diss, Norfolk, IP21 5RA
Tel: 01379 384888 Fax:
01379 384034
E-mail:
info@wingfield-arts.co.uk
Web:
www.wingfield-arts.co.uk
Fascinating medieval house and gardens in rural
North Suffolk offering a unique combination of
arts and heritage: with collections of textiles,
prints and ceramics plus 4 acres of gardens with
eccentric topiary, ancient ponds and garden
sculpture. New Walled Garden opens at Easter
2002 with exotic and radical planting schemes
for a fresh approach to gardening for the new
Millennium. Site includes College Yard - the new
visitor centre for Wingfield Arts with 3
Exhibition galleries and changing contemporary
art exhibitions throughout the season. Tearoom,
Arts Gift Shop, Play Garden for young children
0-6 yrs.
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Holkham Hall & Estate
Holkham, Wells-Next-The-Sea, Norfolk, NR23 1AB
Tel: 01328 710227 Fax:
01328 711707
E-mail:
enquiries@holkham.co.uk
Web:
www.holkham.co.uk
Holkham Hall is one of Britain's most majestic
Stately Homes. It has splendid state rooms with
wonderful paintings, fine furniture and ancient
statues. A Bygones Museum has over 4,000
domestic and agricultural artefacts.
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Grimes Graves
Thetford, Norfolk, IP26 5DE
Tel: 01842 810656
E-mail:
info@theheritagetrail.co.uk
Named Grim's Graves by the Anglo-Saxons after
the pagan god Grim, it was not until some of
them were first excavated in 1870 that they were
found to be flint mines dug some 4,000 years
ago. The mines provided the materials needed to
make tools and weapons. Today visitors can
descend 10 metres (30 feet) by ladder into one
excavated shaft.
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Berney Arms Windmill
Berney Marshes, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR30
1SB
Tel: 01493 700605
E-mail:
customers@english-heritage.org.uk
Berney Arms Windmill is, at some 20 metres,
Norfolk's tallest marsh mill, and it is still in
working order. It was originally used to grind
cement clinker, but later it pumped water from
the marshes of the Broads. From the mill there
is fine panorama of Breydon Water and over the
surrounding marshes.
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Row 111 House -The Old
Merchant's House and Greyfriars' Cloisters
South Quay, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR30 3LD
Tel: 01493 857900
E-mail:
customers@english-heritage.org.uk
Row 111 House was almost destroyed by bombing in
1942-3 and contains many items rescued from the
rubble. This and the Old Merchant's House, which
boasts fine plaster-work ceilings and oak
panelling, are surviving examples of Row Houses,
unique to Great Yarmouth. Nearby are the remains
of a Franciscan friary with early wall paintings
discovered during bomb damage repairs.
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Dragon Hall
115-123 King St, Norwich, Norfolk, NR1 1QE
Tel: 01603 663922
E-mail:
dragon.hall@virgin.net
Web:
www.dragon.hall/index.htm
Dragon Hall on King Street - one of Norwich's
oldest streets - consists of a magnificent 15th
century merchant's hall at first floor level.
Described as 'the secular equivalent of East
Anglia's great medieval churches', the
timber-framed Great Hall with its outstanding
Crown Post Roof and intricately carved and
painted dragon is a monument to medieval
craftsmanship. Built for the sale and display of
cloth, a staple of the Norwich economy from the
15th century until the early 19th century, the
hall is a legacy of the early days of the
Norwich Cloth Manufacture. As the only medieval
merchant's trading hall known to have survived
in Europe, Dragon Hall is unique.
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