English Heritage sites near Catfield Parish
COW TOWER, NORWICH
10 miles from Catfield 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.
CAISTER ROMAN FORT
11 miles from Catfield Parish
The partial excavated remains of a Roman ‘Saxon Shore’ fort, including wall and ditch sections and building foundations.
BERNEY ARMS WINDMILL
11 miles from Catfield 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.
BURGH CASTLE ROMAN FORT
12 miles from Catfield 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.
GREAT YARMOUTH ROW HOUSES AND GREYFRIARS' CLOISTERS
13 miles from Catfield Parish
Enjoy a rare trip back in time at this Norfolk visitor attraction. The delightful Row Houses at Row 111 and the Old Merchant’s House are rare remnants of Great Yarmouth’s original distinctive ‘Rows’.
ST OLAVE'S PRIORY
14 miles from Catfield Parish
The wonderfully complete 14th century brick-vaulted refectory undercroft - later a cottage occupied until 1902 - of a small Augustinian priory.
Churches in Catfield Parish
Catfield: All Saints
School Road
Catfield
Great Yarmouth
01692 678842
https://www.watersidegroup.org.uk
All Saints is a typical Norfolk parish church; built of flint in the Middle Ages, with a square west-end tower containing six bells, a nave with two aisles, a chancel, a porch with a parvise (room above). It was largely built in the late fourteenth century although the tower may be older, while the chancel and porch are fifteenth century. It has a rood screen between the nave and chancel with sixteen royal saints painted on in the fifteenth century; the arcades have faint medieval paintings discovered in the 1840s underneath the whitewash.
Pubs in Catfield Parish
Crown Inn
The Street, Catfield, NR29 5AA
(01692) 580128
catfieldcrown.co.uk