English Heritage sites near Grimston Parish
CASTLE RISING CASTLE
3 miles from Grimston Parish
One of the largest, best preserved and most lavishly decorated keeps in England, surrounded by 20 acres of mighty earthworks.
CASTLE ACRE: CASTLE ACRE PRIORY
8 miles from Grimston Parish
This important Norfolk visitor attraction is one of the largest and best preserved monastic sites in England dating back to 1090.
CASTLE ACRE CASTLE AND BAILEY GATE
8 miles from Grimston Parish
The delightful village of Castle Acre boasts an extraordinary wealth of history and is a very rare and complete survival of a Norman planned settlement.
CREAKE ABBEY
14 miles from Grimston Parish
The ruined church of an Augustinian abbey, reduced in size after fire and plague.
NORTH ELMHAM CHAPEL
17 miles from Grimston 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.
BINHAM PRIORY
20 miles from Grimston Parish
Among the most complete and impressive monastic ruins in Norfolk of a Benedictine priory with a well-documented history.
Churches in Grimston Parish
Grimston: St Botolph
Grimston
Kings Lynn
01485 601251
http://www.ggmbenefice.uk
A grand 'wool' church (Listed Grade 1) with a magnificent 15th century tower and a friendly congregation using modern English services and a variety of music. There was a big pottery industry here for several centuries, exporting Grimstonware all over Europe, so maybe St.Botolph's is a pottery church as much as a wool church., and the Western half of the parish is called Pott Row.
Several members of the Thorowgood (or Thoroughgood) family were Rectors here and the youngest son of one of them, Adam Thorowgood, baptised here in 1604, sailed to Virginia in the early days and made a big name for himself, naming the city of Norfolk after his home county. and his family home in Virginia Beach is a namtional monument.
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Pubs in Grimston Parish
Old Bell
A small bar accessed around the side of the building which is decorated with a large number of plates featuring dogs and pictures of the younger members of the royal family. There is a dining area separate from the bar.