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Country house
Holkham Hall
Neo-Palladian house built for Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester, to designs by William Kent.
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Wells, Holkham & Blakeney: things to do
Places worth your time in Wells, Holkham & Blakeney
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Things to do in Wells, Holkham & Blakeney
Landmarks, museums, parks and viewpoints in and around the area.
Nature reserve and beach
Holkham National Nature Reserve
One of the largest national nature reserves in England: grazing marsh, pine woods, salt marsh, dunes and foreshore.
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Harbour
Wells Harbour
Working harbour and quay of Wells-next-the-Sea, on the north side of the A149 coast road.
Heritage railway
Wells and Walsingham Light Railway
Small-gauge railway running four miles from Wells to Walsingham on the trackbed of a branch line closed in the 1960s.
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Nature reserve
Blakeney Point
National Trust reserve on a shingle and dune spit about 6.4 km long, with a colony of harbour and grey seals.
Historic building
Blakeney Guildhall
Medieval undercroft in an alley off Blakeney quay, an English Heritage scheduled monument.
Church
St Nicholas' Church, Blakeney
Parish church founded in the 13th century and largely rebuilt in the 15th, when Blakeney was a busy seaport.
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Nature reserve
Cley Marshes
Norfolk Wildlife Trust reed beds and pools outside Cley, a nature reserve since 1926.
Windmill
Cley Windmill
Grade II* listed tower mill beside the Cley marshes, now converted to guest accommodation.
Church
St Margaret's Church, Cley
Large parish church rebuilt between the 1320s and 1340s, the biggest in the Blakeney Haven area.
Priory ruins
Binham Priory
Ruined Benedictine priory in the village of Binham, south of Blakeney.
Priory ruins
Walsingham Abbey and priory ruins
Ruins of a 12th-century Augustinian priory linked to the shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, largely destroyed at the Dissolution.
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Shrine church
Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham
Church of England shrine church built in 1938 during the revival of pilgrimage to Walsingham.
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Museum
The Shell Museum
Glandford museum founded by Alfred Jodrell, with sea shells, fossils, local finds and work by John Craske.
Hillfort
Warham Camp
Iron Age circular hillfort south of Wells, a scheduled monument and Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Norfolk and the Broads
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A medieval port on the Great Ouse, a Norman castle and the royal Sandringham estate
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Norwich
A Norman cathedral and castle, a 900-year-old market and medieval lanes in the county city
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Wroxham, Hoveton & the northern Broads
Boatyards, river trips and broads on the River Bure, a train ride from Norwich
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- Wells, Holkham & Blakeney (area photo): Michael Garlick, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Holkham Hall: Rev Stan, CC BY 2.0, source
- Wells and Walsingham Light Railway: Timothy Titus, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Blakeney Point: Andrew Norman at English Wikipedia, Public domain, source
- Blakeney Guildhall: Nicola J Patron, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- St Nicholas' Church, Blakeney: David from Colorado Springs, United States, CC BY 2.0, source
- Cley Windmill: Stavros1, CC BY 3.0, source
- St Margaret's Church, Cley: Cruccone, CC BY 3.0, source
- Binham Priory: Mik Peach, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Walsingham Abbey and priory ruins: David P Orman, CC BY 2.5, source
- Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham: Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- The Shell Museum: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Warham Camp: Kim Fyson, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- King's Lynn & Sandringham: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Norwich: Sumit Surai, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Wroxham, Hoveton & the northern Broads: Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Cromer & Sheringham: Scribwik, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
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