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Places of Interest

Blickling Hall is a stately home in the village of Blickling, and has been in the care of the National Trust since 1940. Blicking Hall was once in the possession of the Boleyn family, and home to Sir Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire and his wife, Elizabeth, between 1499 and 1505. The current Blickling Hall was built on the ruins of the old Boleyn property in the reign of James I, by the Hobarts. In 1616, Sir Henry Hobart Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and 1st Baronet bought Blickling from Robert Clere. During World War II the house was requisitioned and served as the Officers Mess of nearby RAF Oulton.

Grimes Cave is a haunting landscape of the Neolithic flint mines at Grimes Graves. It is one of the most eerily evocative sites in Britain, particularly on a mist-shrouded early spring morning. Prehistoric flint mines are exceptionally rare sites in Britain and Grimes Graves offers visitors an opportunity to descend into a Neolithic mine, and experience a little of what it was like to be a miner grubbing out the black flint in the cool, claustrophobic low galleries. A survey by English Heritage found that Grimes Graves is one of only ten Neolithic flint mines known in England, of which only six survive as earthworks.

Bressingham Steam & Gardens is a steam museum and garden centre. There are three narrow-gauge lines which take visitors around the gardens: The Garden Railway, The Nursery Railway and The Waveney Valley Railway. The site also contains a short standard gauge section of track and standard gauge footplate rides are sometimes available to visitors. The gardens were established by Alan Bloom MBE at Bressingham Hall, who moved to Bressingham after his previous site at Oakington in Cambridgeshire was compulsorily purchased by the Chesterton Rural District Council.

A fixture on the landscape of Great Yarmouth, the Nelson Monument (properly called the Norfolk Naval Pillar) was built in 1819 to commemorate the death of Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar fourteen years earlier. Built before London's column in Trafalgar Square, this monument stands over 144ft (43.9m) high and is listed as a Grade I historical building, being a unique landmark on the east Norfolk coast. On the western side of the pedestal is a Latin inscription, part of which reads: "This great man Norfolk boasts her own, not only as born there of a respectable family, and as there having received his early education, but her own also in talents, manners and mind."

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