east anglia – Meditations

June 2, 2018

Binham Priory

I never expected to be visiting Binham but it was on the way. Or, rather, what I saw from the window of my car…

May 30, 2018

Creake’s history in effect spans not more than about three centuries, but in it we may find our historic senses of justice and injustice…

May 26, 2018

I will start by saying I did not even try and approach Dilham because it is a private property. The original fortfified structure was…

May 23, 2018

Visiting Hunworth was fun! One really wouldn’t expect to see a glacial escarpment just like the one that is located in the village in…

May 20, 2018

Gresham became, moments after arriving there, one of my favourite places in the whole of East Anglia. Not only are we looking at a…

May 16, 2018

I can safely say that I won’t say very much about Thornage Hall. Really, I wouldn’t visit it unless one was a keen fan…

May 12, 2018

Warham Camp is quite a spectacular site, even if the place is not quite the same as two millennia ago. It still retains a…

May 8, 2018

There have been very few places I have visited which have been named as ominously as ‘Bloodgate Hill’. This might lead one to think…

May 4, 2018

Branodunum is another one of the Saxon Shore forts I have managed to make my way to. I am in very two minds about…

March 21, 2018

Framlingham is one of the most iconic places in the East Anglian medieval landscape; mostly this is because it is one of the very…