7 miles from Marlingford and Colton 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.

11 miles from Marlingford and Colton 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.

18 miles from Marlingford and Colton 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.

19 miles from Marlingford and Colton Parish

The delightful village of Castle Acre boasts an extraordinary wealth of history and is a very rare and complete survival of a Norman planned settlement.

19 miles from Marlingford and Colton Parish

This important Norfolk visitor attraction is one of the largest and best preserved monastic sites in England dating back to 1090.

21 miles from Marlingford and Colton Parish

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