English Heritage sites near Great Witchingham Parish

North Elmham Chapel

NORTH ELMHAM CHAPEL

7 miles from Great Witchingham Parish

A place with an unusual story, told by graphic panels. The small Norman chapel here stood on the site of an earlier timber church, probably the Saxon cathedral of East Anglia.

Cow Tower, Norwich

COW TOWER, NORWICH

11 miles from Great Witchingham Parish

One of the earliest purpose-built artillery blockhouses in England, this brick tower was built in c.1398-9 to command a strategic point in Norwich’s city defence.

Baconsthorpe Castle

BACONSTHORPE CASTLE

12 miles from Great Witchingham Parish

Visit the extensive ruins of Baconsthorpe Castle, a moated and fortified 15th century manor house, that are a testament to the rise and fall of a prominent Norfolk family, the Heydons.

Binham Market Cross

BINHAM MARKET CROSS

14 miles from Great Witchingham Parish

The tall shaft of a 15th century cross, on the site of an annual fair held from the 1100s until the 1950s.

Binham Priory

BINHAM PRIORY

15 miles from Great Witchingham Parish

Among the most complete and impressive monastic ruins in Norfolk of a Benedictine priory with a well-documented history.

Blakeney Guildhall

BLAKENEY GUILDHALL

16 miles from Great Witchingham Parish

The remains of the house of a prosperous Blakeney merchant, with a fine 15th century brick-vaulted undercroft. Later the guildhall of Blakeney’s guild of fish merchants.


No churches found in Great Witchingham Parish


Pubs in Great Witchingham Parish

Bridge

2 Fakenham Road, Lenwade, NR9 5SE
(01603) 872248

Large pub close to 'Dinosaur Park, the Marriotts Way and Wensum Way trails, and in the heart of the Lenwade fisheries, being surrounded by 11 acres of rivers and lakes. The fisheries are old gravel pits, dug in WWII to provide material for...
Queen of Hearts

55 Fakenham Road, Lenwade, NR9 5AE
(01603) 871020
queenofheartslenwade.co.uk/

The King of Hearts closed in 1982 and became a tea-rooms for over thirty years, until it re-opened in 2016 as the Queen of Hearts, a bar and restaurant, serving two ales from handpump. A selection of cakes and pastries are available, as we...
White Pheasant

Lenwade House Drive, Lenwade, NR9 5QP
(01603) 863557
thewhitepheasantnorfolk.co.uk/

Large Tudor-style country house hotel, whose bars are open all day to non-residents. Two comfortable bars one with a pool table, one with wood panelling and comfortable seating, and a riverside patio area by the swimming pool.