English Heritage sites near Brooke Parish
COW TOWER, NORWICH
7 miles from Brooke Parish
One of the earliest purpose-built artillery blockhouses in England, this brick tower was built in c.1398-9 to command a strategic point in Norwich’s city defence.
ST OLAVE'S PRIORY
11 miles from Brooke Parish
The wonderfully complete 14th century brick-vaulted refectory undercroft - later a cottage occupied until 1902 - of a small Augustinian priory.
BERNEY ARMS WINDMILL
12 miles from Brooke Parish
Visit one of Norfolk's best and largest extant marsh mills, built to grind a constituent of cement and in use until 1948, finally pumping water to drain surrounding marshland.
BURGH CASTLE ROMAN FORT
12 miles from Brooke Parish
The imposing stone walls, with added towers for catapults, of a Roman 3rd century ‘Saxon Shore’ fort. Enjoy panoramic views over Breydon Water, into which the fourth wall long since collapsed.
GREAT YARMOUTH ROW HOUSES AND GREYFRIARS' CLOISTERS
15 miles from Brooke Parish
Enjoy a rare trip back in time at this Norfolk visitor attraction. The delightful Row Houses at Row 111 and the Old Merchant’s House are rare remnants of Great Yarmouth’s original distinctive ‘Rows’.
CAISTER ROMAN FORT
17 miles from Brooke Parish
The partial excavated remains of a Roman ‘Saxon Shore’ fort, including wall and ditch sections and building foundations.
Churches in Brooke Parish
Brooke: St Peter's
The Street
Brooke
Norwich
(01508) 558479
http://brooke.churchnet.co/
St. Peter's Church is situated within the attractive conservation village of Brooke.
The round tower was constructed in three parts, the lower part is probably Saxon. The font is a fine example of a seven sacrament font of which there are about forty in the country, twenty four being in Norfolk.
An interesting monument inside the church is dedicated to the eminent surgeon Sir Astley Paston Cooper Bt, GCH, OCL, FRS who was sergeant surgeon to George 1V, William 1V and Queeen Victoria.
St. Peter's is part of the Kirstead, Mundham, Seething and Thwaite group of churches and a visitors guide is available for St. Peter's Church.