Landmarks & Historic Sites

The Western Heights of Dover were built as part of a huge programme of fortification in response to Napoleon's planned invasion of the UK.
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Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, and is one of the best known prehistoric sites in Britain.
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Wayland's Smithy is a Neolithic long barrow and chamber tomb site located near the Uffington White Horse, dating from around 3700BC
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Coombe Conduit is made up of 2 small Tudor buildings and an underground tunnel through which water was once supplied to Hampton Court Palace
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The first fort was established at Corbridge around AD 85. It was the most northerly town in the British Empire.
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The Countess Pillar monument was erected in 1656 by Lady Anne Clifford to commemorate her final parting from her mother.
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Cow Tower, built in 1398-9, is one of the earliest purpose-built artillery blockhouses in England.
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Chichele College, in Higham Ferrers, was founded by Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1422 as a college for secular canons.
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Mincarlo is the last surviving sidewinder fishing trawler of the Lowestoft fishing fleet.
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Dragon Hall, built by merchant, Robert Toppes is a medieval merchant's trading hall dating from around 1430.
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Bircham Windmill it is the only windmill in working order in this area open to the public.
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The Cressingham village school was built in 1840.Children can attend free historical school days and learn how school used to be.
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Gressenhall was opened in 1777 as a house of industry where paupers would work under quite a strict regime in return for accommodation.
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The hamlet of Reculver once occupied a strategic location at the western end of the Wantsum Channel,so the Romans built a fort there in 43AD
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