Castle
Baconsthorpe Castle
17 locals recommend
Tips from locals
Harriet
February 13, 2016
Just on our doorstep! Baconsthorpe Castle is a fortified manor house, now a ruin.
Jean
April 25, 2021
If you are an early bird, try to get here at dawn to see the barn owls return from a nights hunting. A truly amazing sight
Claudia
August 19, 2014
Ruins of a moated and fortified C15 manor house
Emma
May 10, 2021
This is one of our favourite places. It is often very quiet here and is the perfect place for a picnic and a peaceful read. There are no shops, cafes or.....anything other than tranquility really!
Jacquie
September 21, 2019
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. Over 200 years, successive generations of this ambitious family built, then enlarged, and finally abandoned this castle. Sir John Heydon probably built the strong inner gatehouse during the turbulent Wars of the Roses period, and his son Sir Henry, whose memorial can be seen in Baconsthorpe Church, completed the fortified house. In more peaceful times, their descendants converted part of the property into a textile factory, and then added the turreted Elizabethan outer gateway, inhabited until 1920.
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. Over 200 years, successive generations of this ambitious family built, then enlarged, and finally abandoned this ca…
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Location
Castle Lane
Baconsthorpe, England