4 miles from Thursford Parish

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

4 miles from Thursford Parish

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

7 miles from Thursford 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.

8 miles from Thursford 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.

9 miles from Thursford Parish

The ruined church of an Augustinian abbey, reduced in size after fire and plague.

9 miles from Thursford 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.