Two castles existed at Buckenham Norman castle within possibly earlier earthwork. Abandoned 1146 when granted to the Priory of Buckenham, the keep being used to provide building material for the latter. Map Remains of castle earthworks, moat and keep. Built circa 1145-50 by William II de Albini to replace Old Buckenham Castle (TM 09 SE […]
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 […]
Great Cressingham School
The school building was built in 1840. It was used as a local Authority school until 1992 and was then acquired by Tom and Sally North. They have restored it as closely as possible to how it would have been in Victorian times. For example, it is once again heated by a coal fired “Tortoise” […]