English Heritage sites near Roughton Parish
BACONSTHORPE CASTLE
6 miles from Roughton 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 Roughton 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 Roughton 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
15 miles from Roughton Parish
Among the most complete and impressive monastic ruins in Norfolk of a Benedictine priory with a well-documented history.
NORTH ELMHAM CHAPEL
17 miles from Roughton 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
18 miles from Roughton 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.
No churches found in Roughton Parish
Pubs in Roughton Parish
New Inn
Norwich Road, Roughton, NR11 8SJ
(01263) 761389
thenewinnroughton.co.uk