English Heritage sites near Griston Parish
GRIME'S GRAVES - PREHISTORIC FLINT MINE
10 miles from Griston Parish
Grime’s Graves is a unique visitor attraction in Norfolk as the only Neolithic flint mine open to visitors in Britain.
THETFORD PRIORY
11 miles from Griston Parish
The extensive remains of one of the most important East Anglian monasteries, the Cluniac Priory of Our Lady of Thetford and the burial place of the earls and dukes of Norfolk for 400 years.
THETFORD, CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE
11 miles from Griston Parish
The only surviving remains in England of a priory of Canons of the Holy Sepulchre, who aided pilgrims to Christ's tomb: the ruined nave of their 14th-century church, later used as a barn.
THETFORD WARREN LODGE
11 miles from Griston Parish
Thetford Warren Lodge was probably built c.1400 by the Prior of Thetford; this defensible lodge protected gamekeepers and hunting parties against armed poachers.
WEETING CASTLE
12 miles from Griston Parish
The ruins of a substantial early medieval moated manor house, built in local flint.
CASTLE ACRE CASTLE AND BAILEY GATE
12 miles from Griston 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.
Churches in Griston Parish
Griston: St Peter & St Paul
A fine old Norfolk church.
Pubs in Griston Parish
Waggon & Horses
Caston Road, Griston, IP25 6QD
(01953) 883847
waggonandhorsesgriston.co.uk