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Our History and Heritage category brings all Coast Radar’s Norfolk listings related to looking for something to do or a place to visit together where they offer some form of historic or heritage based activity.

Finding the best things to see and do on a Norfolk day out with your family or friends is easy – simply explore the historic and heritage links below, hit the jump to my location button or use the search bar to plan your next Norfolk activity.

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North Elmham Chapel

North Elmham Chapel

North Elmham Chapel, also known as North Elmham Bishops Castle and North Elmham Bishops Chapel, is a castle ruin in the village of North Elmham. The structure started out as a cathedral in the 11th century. In 1387 Henry le Despenser, Bishop of Norwich obtained a license to crenellate the church. He then fortified the structure into a double-moated castle. Read more…
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Binham Market Cross

Binham Market Cross, 15th-century cross, on the site of an annual fair held from the 1100s until the 1950s. Read more…
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Berney Arms Windmill

Berney Arms Windmill, one of Norfolk’s best and largest marsh mills. Grinding a constituent of cement and in use until 1951, then pumping water to drain surrounding marshland. Read more…
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Castle Acre Priory

Castle Acre Priory, one of the largest and best preserved monastic sites in England, the foundation of Castle Acre Priory in about 1090. Created after a visit by William de Warenne II and his wife Gundrada to the great French monastery of Cluny. Read more…
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Blickling Hall, Gardens and Park

Blickling Hall Jacobean house with gardens and park. Read more…
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Castle Acre Castle and Bailey Gate

Castle Acre castle, founded soon after the Conquest by the first William de Warenne, initially as a stone ‘country house’. Then converted into a strong keep, further defended by stone walls and an immense system of ditched earthworks. Still impressively visible, these are perhaps the finest village earthworks in England. The delightful village of Castle Acre boasts an extraordinary wealth Read more…
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Castle Rising Castle

Castle Rising Castle completed around 1140 AD by the Norman lord William d’Albini for his new wife, the widow of Henry I. This is now one of the largest, best preserved and most lavishly decorated stone keeps in England, surrounded by 20 acres of mighty earthworks. Read more…
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Binham Priory

Benedictine priory ruins. The nave, with its splendid 13th-century west front and great bricked-up window, is now the parish church. Read more…
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Bressingham Steam and Gardens

Bressingham Steam and Gardens is a museum dedicated to steam engines alongside gardens and a garden centre, all situated at Bressingham near Diss in Norfolk. Established by Alan Bloom in 1946, the gardens cover 17 acres and are a stunning collection of plants. Alan himself created the Dell Garden in 1952 and his son Adrian, the Foggy Bottom Garden. Several Read more…
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Caister Roman Site

Caister Roman Site, the partially excavated remains of a Roman ‘Saxon Shore’ fort, including wall and ditch sections and building foundations. Read more…
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Blakeney Guildhall

Blakeney Guildhall, the remains of the house of a prosperous Blakeney merchant, with a fine 15th-century brickvaulted undercroft. Later the guildhall of Blakeney’s guild of fish merchants. Read more…
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Baconsthorpe Castle

Extensive ruins of Baconsthorpe Castle, a moated and fortified 15th-century manor house. Read more…
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Find Norfolk Dog Friendly Beaches

Heading to the Norfolk coast with your dog and not sure if they are allowed on any beaches?

This Norfolk list of dog friendly beaches will help in planning your next trip to the beach, beaches for dogs near Norfolk

Our Norfolk dog friendly beach list currently has 6 Norfolk beaches listed where dogs are allowed with 12 beaches that have some dog restrictions, and there are no beaches on which a full dog ban is in operation.

Norfolk dog friendly beaches Norfolk Beaches allowing dogs

This list shows 6 Norfolk beaches with no dog restrictions and can be used all year.

  1. Caister Beach, Great Yarmouth
  2. North Beach, Great Yarmouth
  3. Heacham Beach, Hunstanton
  4. Great Yarmouth South Beach, Great Yarmouth
  5. Snettisham Beach, King's Lynn
  6. Winterton-on-Sea Beach, Winterton-on-Sea

Note, although dogs are allowed you are expected to keep control of your dog, clean-up after them and some beaches may require you to keep them on a lead. Please check local information sites for any restrictions.

Norfolk beaches with dog restrictions Norfolk Beaches that have dog restrictions

This list shows 12 Norfolk beaches allowing dogs but with some restrictions. These restrictions could be a time of day, restricted zones, dogs to be kept on a lead or only allowed out of season. Check our beach information page for details of the restrictions in place.

  1. East Runton Beach, Cromer
  2. Cromer Beach, Cromer
  3. Great Yarmouth Central Beach, Great Yarmouth
  4. Hemsby Beach, Winterton-on-Sea
  5. Mundesley Beach, Mundesley
  6. Sea Palling Beach, Sea Palling
  7. Wells Beach, Wells-next-the-Sea
  8. Holkham Bay Beach, Wells-next-the-Sea
  9. West Runton Beach, Cromer
  10. Sheringham Beach, Sheringham
  11. Brancaster Beach, Brancaster
  12. Bacton Beach, Bacton

Norfolk Beaches that do not allow dogs Norfolk Beaches that do not allow dogs

We have no Norfolk beaches recorded that do not allow dogs at any time.

Norfolk Beaches that we have NO dog restriction information

This list shows 10 Norfolk beaches where we have no information on dog restrictions.

  1. Cley Beach, Sheringham
  2. Gorleston Beach, Great Yarmouth
  3. California Beach, Great Yarmouth
  4. South Denes Beach, Great Yarmouth
  5. Hunstanton Beach, Hunstanton
  6. Hunstanton South Beach, Hunstanton
  7. Old Hunstanton Beach, Hunstanton
  8. Overstrand Beach, Cromer
  9. Scratby Beach, Great Yarmouth
  10. Walcott Beach, Walcott

    11. If a Norfolk beach is not listed above then we have no information and you will have to check local beach information boards.

    Note that we try to keep this dog beach information up to date but restrictions are set by local councils and occasionally we may miss a change.