Baconsthorpe, Norfolk, England

Baconsthorpe Castle

Baconsthorpe Castle

Baconsthorpe Castle is a moated and fortified 15th century manor house. Over 200 years, successive generations of the Heydon family built, then enlarged, and finally abandoned this castle. Sir John Heydon probably built the strong inner gatehouse during the turbulent Wars of the Roses period, and his son Sir Henry completed the fortified house. In more peaceful times, their descendants converted part of the property into a textile factory, and then added the turreted Elizabethan outer gateway, inhabited until 1920. It is now under the care of English Heritage.

 

The castle is haunted by the curious figure of a sentry on the walls, who throws stones into the water where they land with a plop!

 

Near Baconsthorpe,

Norfolk.

 

For further information, please visit:

www.english-heritage.org.uk

 

For more information, please read Haunted Castles of Britain and Ireland by Richard Jones.

Location

Visitor Information

Baconsthorpe is a village and civil parish in Norfolk, England.

It is situated 3.5 miles southeast of Holt, 5 miles south of Sheringham and 20 miles north of Norwich.

Pictured left is Baconsthorpe Castle courtesy of Evelyn Simak. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.