English Heritage sites near Houghton Parish
CREAKE ABBEY
8 miles from Houghton Parish
The ruined church of an Augustinian abbey, reduced in size after fire and plague.
CASTLE RISING CASTLE
8 miles from Houghton Parish
One of the largest, best preserved and most lavishly decorated keeps in England, surrounded by 20 acres of mighty earthworks.
CASTLE ACRE CASTLE AND BAILEY GATE
9 miles from Houghton 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.
CASTLE ACRE: CASTLE ACRE PRIORY
9 miles from Houghton Parish
This important Norfolk visitor attraction is one of the largest and best preserved monastic sites in England dating back to 1090.
NORTH ELMHAM CHAPEL
13 miles from Houghton 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
14 miles from Houghton Parish
Among the most complete and impressive monastic ruins in Norfolk of a Benedictine priory with a well-documented history.
Churches in Houghton Parish
Houghton-next-Harpley: St Martin
Houghton Park
Houghton
Kings Lynn
07970875052
Situated in the deer park of Houghton Hall, this charming medieval church dates from 13th Century and has been enlarged and restored over the centuries and has an 18th Century interior. It is the burial place of Great Britain’s first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, who rebuilt the tower as a memorial to his grandfather Sir Jeffery Burwell in about 1730.
There is an effigy of a prior of Coxford, who died in 1307, near the nave that was brought to Houghton in 1522 before the dissolution of the monasteries. On the walls hang some well-preserved hatchments, the last of which was put up in 1969 in memory of the 5th Marquess of Cholmondeley.
The congregation is small but most welcoming to visitors and local residents alike. The PCC's cake stall is a favourite destination for visitors to the annual Houghton International Horse Trials and Christmas Eve candlelit carols a traditional way to start the festivities for many local families.
No churches found in Houghton Parish