14 miles from Downham West Parish

One of the largest, best preserved and most lavishly decorated keeps in England, surrounded by 20 acres of mighty earthworks.

14 miles from Downham West Parish

The ruins of a substantial early medieval moated manor house, built in local flint.

15 miles from Downham West Parish

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

15 miles from Downham West 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.

16 miles from Downham West Parish

Grime’s Graves is a unique visitor attraction in Norfolk as the only Neolithic flint mine open to visitors in Britain.

18 miles from Downham West Parish

Isleham Priory Church is the best example in England of a small Norman Benedictine priory church, surviving in a surprisingly unaltered state despite later conversion into a barn.