English Heritage sites near Frettenham Parish
COW TOWER, NORWICH
6 miles from Frettenham 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
15 miles from Frettenham 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.
BERNEY ARMS WINDMILL
16 miles from Frettenham Parish
Visit one of Norfolk's best and largest extant marsh mills, built to grind a constituent of cement and in use until 1948, finally pumping water to drain surrounding marshland.
NORTH ELMHAM CHAPEL
16 miles from Frettenham 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.
BURGH CASTLE ROMAN FORT
16 miles from Frettenham Parish
The imposing stone walls, with added towers for catapults, of a Roman 3rd century ‘Saxon Shore’ fort. Enjoy panoramic views over Breydon Water, into which the fourth wall long since collapsed.
CAISTER ROMAN FORT
17 miles from Frettenham Parish
The partial excavated remains of a Roman ‘Saxon Shore’ fort, including wall and ditch sections and building foundations.
Churches in Frettenham Parish
Frettenham: St Swithin
Church street
Frettenham
Norwich
01603 737707
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