Historic BuildingsWatton

A fine 12th‐century domestic keep, set amid huge defensive earthworks and once the palace and home to Isabella, the 'She Wolf' of France, dowager Queen of England. The keep walls stand to their original height. There is access to castle bridge and grounds via impacted gravel paths…
Distance: 11.1 miles away

Castle Acre Priory was inspired by the monastery at Cluny in France and was home to a community of monks until 1537, when Henry VIII disbanded all monastic houses. The village stands on the Pilgrim routes to Thetford, Bromholm Priory and Walsingham. The priory's ruins span…
Distance: 11.1 miles away

Ruins of an early C12th defended manor house, built by Hugh de Plais in the 1130's on the site of a C10th settlement. Weeting is one of the earliest inhabited parts of Norfolk, the flint mines at Grimes Graves confirm this. Items of pottery, coins, brooches…
Distance: 10.8 miles away

Euston Hall has been home for the Dukes of Grafton for over 300 years and is at present lived in by the Eleventh Duke. The hall contains, among is treasures, the famous collection of paintings of the court of Charles II, and includes works by Van Dyck,…
Distance: 13.6 miles away

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…
Distance: 10.4 miles away

Ruins of two‐storeyed mediaeval hunting lodge, set in pleasant woods. Built c1400 for the Prior of Thetford's gamekeeper. Can only be viewed from outside. Admission free. Thetford Warren LodgeEnglish Heritage, Thetford, 2 miles west of Thetford, signed off B1107.…
Distance: 10.7 miles away