Sandringham House
Country house of the royal family set in a 20,000-acre estate; check the estate website for opening dates.
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A medieval port on the Great Ouse, a Norman castle and the royal Sandringham estate
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King's Lynn is a port town on the River Great Ouse near The Wash. Its two market places, Tuesday Market Place and Saturday Market Place, are lined with merchants' houses, guildhalls and the Minster, and the Guildhall of St George, built between 1410 and 1420, is the largest surviving guildhall in England. The 17th-century Custom House was designed by Henry Bell, once the town's mayor.
North-east of the town, Castle Rising keeps a Norman keep built soon after 1138, and Sandringham House, a country house of the royal family, stands in a 20,000-acre estate. On The Wash, RSPB Snettisham is known for the huge flocks of wading birds pushed ashore by big tides in autumn and winter. Great Northern trains run from London King's Cross.
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Country house of the royal family set in a 20,000-acre estate; check the estate website for opening dates.
Parish church beside Sandringham House, attended by the royal family when they are in residence.
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Ruined castle and keep built soon after 1138 by William d'Aubigny, with earthworks and a former deer park.
Grade I listed church built from the 12th to 15th centuries, renamed King's Lynn Minster in 2011.
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Volunteer-run museum telling the story of King's Lynn's old North End fishing quarter.
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Grade I listed Trinity Guildhall on Saturday Market Place; the Stories of Lynn museum is in its undercroft.
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Come orientarsi
The map shows King's Lynn & Sandringham and the streets around it. The Getting there page lists nearby stops and stations.
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Tuesday Market Place and Saturday Market Place hold most of the historic buildings; walk between them along King Street and Queen Street.
The Guildhall of St George has been used as a theatre since 1445.
Sandringham House and gardens open on set dates; the estate's own website has the details.
Big tides on The Wash in autumn and winter push wading birds onto the shore at RSPB Snettisham; check tide times first.
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