English Heritage sites near Potter Heigham Parish
CAISTER ROMAN FORT
7 miles from Potter Heigham Parish
The partial excavated remains of a Roman ‘Saxon Shore’ fort, including wall and ditch sections and building foundations.
BERNEY ARMS WINDMILL
9 miles from Potter Heigham Parish
Visit one of Norfolk's best and largest extant marsh mills, built to grind a constituent of cement and in use until 1948, finally pumping water to drain surrounding marshland.
BURGH CASTLE ROMAN FORT
10 miles from Potter Heigham Parish
The imposing stone walls, with added towers for catapults, of a Roman 3rd century ‘Saxon Shore’ fort. Enjoy panoramic views over Breydon Water, into which the fourth wall long since collapsed.
GREAT YARMOUTH ROW HOUSES AND GREYFRIARS' CLOISTERS
10 miles from Potter Heigham Parish
Enjoy a rare trip back in time at this Norfolk visitor attraction. The delightful Row Houses at Row 111 and the Old Merchant’s House are rare remnants of Great Yarmouth’s original distinctive ‘Rows’.
ST OLAVE'S PRIORY
13 miles from Potter Heigham Parish
The wonderfully complete 14th century brick-vaulted refectory undercroft - later a cottage occupied until 1902 - of a small Augustinian priory.
COW TOWER, NORWICH
13 miles from Potter Heigham Parish
One of the earliest purpose-built artillery blockhouses in England, this brick tower was built in c.1398-9 to command a strategic point in Norwich’s city defence.
Churches in Potter Heigham Parish
Potter Heigham: St Nicholas
Church Lane
Potter Heigham
Great Yarmouth
01692 678842
https://watersidegroup.org.uk
The church is dedicated to St Nicholas, the patron saint of fishermen and children. The earliest surviving feature is the round tower, which dates from the 12th century and has a 14th-century octagonal extension, one of the best preserved in the country.
It is famed for its hammerbeam roof and the unique 15th-century brick font. The church also contains a scheme of wall paintings dating from the 14th century, the most readable of which depicts the Seven Works of Mercy.
St Nicholas is set away from all the tourist madness on the edge of the village overlooking the fields. It is one of the most attractive churches in the county, with its tall clerestory and the more rustic chancel with thatched roof huddled at the east end. The bell stage to the round tower is later than most, and is elegantly decorated with flushwork and crowned with battlements. The overwhelming effect is of the late Middle Ages.Brick was used to good effect to pick out the clerestory windows and the niches on the otherwise rather stark porch. In the central niche is the figure of a woodwose.
Pubs in Potter Heigham Parish
Falgate Inn
Ludham Road, Potter Heigham, NR29 5HZ
(01692) 670003
falgate-inn.business.site
Norada Tavren
Bridge Road, Potter Heigham, NR29 5JD
(01692) 670904
thenorada.co.uk
Redroofs
Redroofs, Potter Heigham