English Heritage sites near Thorpe Market Parish
BACONSTHORPE CASTLE
8 miles from Thorpe Market 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
14 miles from Thorpe Market 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
16 miles from Thorpe Market 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
16 miles from Thorpe Market Parish
Among the most complete and impressive monastic ruins in Norfolk of a Benedictine priory with a well-documented history.
COW TOWER, NORWICH
16 miles from Thorpe Market 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.
NORTH ELMHAM CHAPEL
18 miles from Thorpe Market 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.
Churches in Thorpe Market Parish
Thorpe Market: St Margaret
Church Road
Thorpe Market
07817027589
http://www.thorpemarket.org.uk
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St Margaret's church Thorpe Market is one of the seven parishes in the Poppyland Benefice.
<span style="font-size: 1rem;">The Parish also has it's own website at http://www.thorpemarket.org.uk</span>
A unique Georgian church (1796) built by Lord Suffield to replace a larger derelict one.
Although Thorpe Market is a small village of only a 100 or so houses, a large number people visit the church every year, especially during 'snowdrop Sundays. The thorpemarket.org.uk website includes conservation, genealogy and up to date events well as a photo gallery.
Pubs in Thorpe Market Parish
Green House B&B
North Walsham Road, Thorpe Market, NR11 8TH
(01263) 833602
greenhousenorfolk.co.uk
Suffield Arms
Station Road, Thorpe Market, NR11 8UE
(01263) 586858
suffieldarms.com