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Great cake! All homemade

2024 closed for conservation but can be viewed.

Tranquil and beautiful lake, full of fish and crystal clear - you can see shells at the bottom and the local geese are inquisitive.

Closed for restoration work as of Aug/Sept 2023, but you can still view from the car park. Baconsthorpe Castle is 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 (https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/baconsthorpe-castle/)

Lovely tranquil spot, crystal clear water, with lots of fish and shells.

One doesn't see many castles being built these days, but this one is well under way.

Great campsite. Bike repair facilities. Clean toilets and showers. £7.50 a night for a biker and tent.

Here lies the ruins of the 15th century fortied Baconsthorpe Castle, complete with moat, which was once home to the Heydon family. Part of the property was converted for use as a textile factory, while the later addition of the turreted gatehouse was lived in until the 1920s. The site is managed by English Heritage: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/baconsthorpe-castle/