English Heritage sites near Alby with Thwaite Parish
BACONSTHORPE CASTLE
6 miles from Alby with Thwaite 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.
BLAKENEY GUILDHALL
12 miles from Alby with Thwaite 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.
BINHAM MARKET CROSS
14 miles from Alby with Thwaite 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
14 miles from Alby with Thwaite Parish
Among the most complete and impressive monastic ruins in Norfolk of a Benedictine priory with a well-documented history.
NORTH ELMHAM CHAPEL
15 miles from Alby with Thwaite 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
15 miles from Alby with Thwaite 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.
Churches in Alby with Thwaite Parish
Alby: St Ethelbert
Hanworth: St Bartholomew
High Street
Hanworth
Norwich
01263 735922
http://www.scarrowbeckbenefice.uk
The church is some way from the centre of the village of Hanworth (the village green) and dedicated to St Bartholomew. It was all rebuilt in the early 15th century Perpendicular period which gave it a splendid square tower. It replaced a smaller Norman church. The tower still has its ring of bells on an ancient bell-frames (a rare survival). In the nave, black-marble leger slabs are a memorial to the Doughty family of the Hall. The churchyard is still used for burials and the interment of ashes.
Thwaite: All Saints
Pubs in Alby with Thwaite Parish
Alby Horse Shoes Inn
This 19th century inn, situated on the main Norwich-Cromer road has two bars plus a separate dining room. The first room, as you enter the pub, has an unusual low level bar, with the traditional game of "ring the bull", and a rare surviving...