Situated to the south of the picturesque, historic town of Clare, just two minutes’ walk from the town centre, Clare Castle Country Park is a beautiful quiet area to relax, play, get close to nature and learn about Clare’s fascinating history. The park contains the remains of the 13th Century stone castle keep set upon […]
Burgh Castle
The imposing stone walls, with added towers for catapults, of a Roman 3rd-century ‘Saxon Shore’ fort. Panoramic views over Breydon Water, into which the fourth wall long since collapsed. Where the waters of the Yare river and the Waveney unite, in the extreme N.E. of the county, to form the Breydon Broad, there are on […]
Bungay Castle
Medieval castle and associated earthworks. The castle was built as a keep with two baileys in 1165 by the Earl of Norfolk. He rebelled against the King, and in 1174, after a short siege involving a mining assault to bring the keep down, was surrendered and the keep slighted. Licence to refortify the site was […]
Tilbury Fort
The artillery fort at Tilbury on the Thames estuary protected London’s seaward approach from the 16th century through to World War II. Henry VIII built the first fort here, and Queen Elizabeth famously rallied her army nearby to face the threat of the Armada. The present fort was begun in 1672 under Charles II: it […]
Saffron Walden Museum
Saffron Walden Museum opened in 1835. With wide-ranging collections, from moccasins and mummy cases to mammoth tusks and Wallace the lion, it still contains much to “stand awhile and admire”. This award-winning, “friendly, family-size museum” is open 363 days a year. Collections cover the human and natural history of north-west Essex, from ancient times to […]