English Heritage sites near Tharston and Hapton Parish
COW TOWER, NORWICH
9 miles from Tharston and Hapton 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.
ST OLAVE'S PRIORY
17 miles from Tharston and Hapton Parish
The wonderfully complete 14th century brick-vaulted refectory undercroft - later a cottage occupied until 1902 - of a small Augustinian priory.
BERNEY ARMS WINDMILL
18 miles from Tharston and Hapton 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
19 miles from Tharston and Hapton 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.
SAXTEAD GREEN POST MILL
20 miles from Tharston and Hapton Parish
Saxtead Green Post Mill is a corn mill, whose whole body revolves on its base and was one of many built in Suffolk from the late 13th century.
NORTH ELMHAM CHAPEL
20 miles from Tharston and Hapton 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.
Churches in Tharston and Hapton Parish
Hapton: St Margaret
Holly Lane, Hapton
Hapton
Norwich
01953 788227
St. Margaret's Church Hapton is reached from the road running through the village by turning up a narrow road called Holly Lane. The church stands guard over the village below. There is a tree fringed churchyard and part of the churchyard is cared for as a conservation area. The church has a square tower that was built as an addition to the church in 1848. There is a bell for chiming. The nave and porch are 14th century and there is a blocked 13th century door and if you look carefully at the Chancel Arch you may be able to see the face of a Green Man.
Tharston: St Mary
No churches found in Tharston and Hapton Parish