English Heritage sites near Roydon Parish
CASTLE RISING CASTLE
2 miles from Roydon Parish
One of the largest, best preserved and most lavishly decorated keeps in England, surrounded by 20 acres of mighty earthworks.
CASTLE ACRE: CASTLE ACRE PRIORY
9 miles from Roydon Parish
This important Norfolk visitor attraction is one of the largest and best preserved monastic sites in England dating back to 1090.
CASTLE ACRE CASTLE AND BAILEY GATE
9 miles from Roydon 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.
CREAKE ABBEY
15 miles from Roydon Parish
The ruined church of an Augustinian abbey, reduced in size after fire and plague.
NORTH ELMHAM CHAPEL
19 miles from Roydon 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.
BINHAM PRIORY
21 miles from Roydon Parish
Among the most complete and impressive monastic ruins in Norfolk of a Benedictine priory with a well-documented history.
Churches in Roydon Parish
Roydon: All Saints
Church Lane
Roydon
Kings Lynn
(01485) 601251
http://www.ggmbenefice.uk
All Saints Roydon is a small quiet church.
Designed by G.E.Street as a Neo-Romanesque Church and built in 1857 retaining its original early Norman North and South doorways. He had just taken on William Morris, who may well have designed some of the flourishes on door handles and candlesticks.
Pubs in Roydon Parish
Three Horseshoes
146-148 Lynn Road, Roydon (W. Norfolk), PE32 1AQ
(01485) 600666
thethreehorseshoespub.co.uk
Union Jack
Popular with locals, this traditional village pub has twice been local CAMRA Pub of the Year. 26 March 2022 marked the current landlord's twentieth anniversary at the pub. Four handpumps dispense one regular and three changing ales, and bee...