Once a market town based
around the sale of horses, Downham Market has
both history and elegance and lies on the edge
of the Fens. Lord Nelson went to school here
as a child and in the centre of the town is a
neo-Gothic clock tower dating to 1878. The
Church of St Edmund has a spire and a Gothic
crucifix.
Eight miles from here is
magnificent Oxburgh Hall, a 15th
century moated mansion, while in the nearby
village of Denver is a tower windmill, a 13th
century church and a cast iron clock tower
with a glass chandelier.
