English Heritage sites near Burgh St. Peter Parish
ST OLAVE'S PRIORY
4 miles from Burgh St. Peter Parish
The wonderfully complete 14th century brick-vaulted refectory undercroft - later a cottage occupied until 1902 - of a small Augustinian priory.
BURGH CASTLE ROMAN FORT
7 miles from Burgh St. Peter 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.
BERNEY ARMS WINDMILL
7 miles from Burgh St. Peter 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.
GREAT YARMOUTH ROW HOUSES AND GREYFRIARS' CLOISTERS
9 miles from Burgh St. Peter 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
12 miles from Burgh St. Peter Parish
The partial excavated remains of a Roman ‘Saxon Shore’ fort, including wall and ditch sections and building foundations.
COW TOWER, NORWICH
18 miles from Burgh St. Peter 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.
Churches in Burgh St. Peter Parish
St Mary the Virgin, Burgh St Peter
By Burgh St Peter Staithe
Burgh St Peter
Beccles
01502 711645
Our church is some two miles from the centre of the present village. It lies by the River Waveney.
The oldest parts of the church date from c1200 but the roof is 15th century and the tower late 18th century. This was built by the first of the Boycott rectors, Samuel, to replace the original tower which had fallen down some time before. The tower is unusual in appearance and is said to be based on the Ziggerat temples of Mesopotamia (Iraq) which had been seen by his son William who later became our second Boycott rector. There were five Boycott rectors spanning a continuous period of 135 years.
The font is late 14th or early 15th century as is the Sedilla-Piscina. The windows are in various styles dating from the 13th to early 16th centuries.
In the churchyard, by the East window, is the grave of Charles Cunningham Boycott, son of our second Boycott rector, a land agent in Ireland during the troubles and introduced the word Boycott to the English language.
Pubs in Burgh St. Peter Parish
Waveney Inn
Staithe Road, Burgh St. Peter, NR34 0BT
(01502) 677599
waveneyrivercentre.co.uk/waveney-inn