English Heritage places in East of England

A moated manor and later textile works that chart the rise and decline of Norfolk's Heydon family.

Monastic ruins with a decorated west front, a surviving prior's lodging and a recreated herb garden.

A late medieval brick artillery tower beside the Wensum, reached along Norwich's riverside walk.

Flint-walled abbey ruins shaped by a devastating fire and the loss of its last monastic community.

Duxford Chapel is a complete medieval building beside Whittlesford Parkway station, with an uncertain early history that may connect it to a hospital recorded in the 13th century.

A Neolithic flint-mining landscape with a nine-metre descent into a prehistoric mine and trails above ground.

Ruined royal castle towers above the Essex marshes and Thames estuary, free to visit in daylight.

Hill Hall was built between 1568 and 1577 for Sir Thomas Smith, an Elizabethan diplomat whose travels helped shape one of England's early Renaissance houses.

A Jacobean mansion shell with Italianate loggias and wide views above Ampthill.

A royal polygonal keep with historic rooms, museum displays and rooftop views over the Suffolk coast.

Extensive medieval priory ruins, with a surviving prior's lodging, church foundations and gatehouse.

Bastioned Thames fortress with moats, artillery, magazine tunnels and views towards Gravesend.