Out and about
in Greater Yarmouth!
HERITAGE, STATELY HOMES & GARDENS
The Elizabethan House
Experience the lives of families who lived in this Quayside house
Medieval Town Wall from Tudor to Victorian times.
2nd most complete Medieval Town Wall in England.
4 South Quay, Great Yarmouth. Tel. 01493 855746
Burgh Castle (English Heritage)
Great Yarmouth Row Houses & Greyfriars Cloisters
Remains of late 3rd century Roman Fort.
Unique 17th century Great Yarmouth Row houses and remains
3 miles west of Great Yarmouth
of 13th century friary.
St. Olave’s Priory (English Heritage)
South Quay, Great Yarmouth. Tel. 01493 857900
Remains of an Augustinian priory founded in the name of
Great Yarmouth Potteries and Herring Museum
St. Olave, patron saint of Norway.
A working pottery and Smoke House museum.
6 miles south west of Great Yarmouth on the A143
18-19 Trinity Place, Great Yarmouth. Tel. 01493 850585
The Norfolk Pillar / Nelson’s Monument
An impressive 144ft high monument built 1819 dedicated to
BOATS, STEAM & TRANSPORT
Admiral Lord Nelson.
Monument Road, Great Yarmouth. Tel. 01493 846346
Caister Castle Car Collection and grounds
Castle with moat dating from 1432 with 150 cars and motor cycles
Fairhaven Woodland and Water Garden
from 1883 onwards.
Unique natural water garden with private Broad.
4 miles north of Great Yarmouth in Caister off A149. Tel. 01572 787649
13 miles west of Great Yarmouth at South Walsham off B1140
Tel. 01603 270449
East Anglia Transport Museum
Museum of bygone transport methods.
Somerleyton Hall and Gardens
Chapel Road, Carleton Colville,12 miles south of Great Yarmouth.
Early Victorian stately home with lavish architectural features and
Tel. 01502 518459
fine state rooms.
8 miles south west of Great Yarmouth. Tel. 0871 222 4244
Strumpshaw Steam Museum
Large collection of steam engines, farm machinery and working
WINDMILLS
mechanical organs.
15 miles west of Great Yarmouth off A47 in Strumpshaw.
Berney Arms Windmill (English Heritage)
Tel. 01603 714535
7 storey marsh windmill, built 1865, Norfolk’s highest drainage mill.
City SightSeeing
3 miles west of Great Yarmouth, access by foot by rail or boat via
45 minute tour of Great Yarmouth in an open top bus.
Halvergate Marshes. Tel. 01493 857900
Pick up: Marina Centre, Marine Parade. Tel. 01263 587005
Horsey Windpump (National Trust)
Scroby Sands
5 storey, red brick tower wind pump with a boat shaped cap,
Sea boat trips to view the seal colony on Scroby Sands.
petticoat, gallery and 4 patent sails
Central Beach, Great Yarmouth.
Off B1159 between Somerton & Waxham. Tel. 01263 740241
Southern Belle
Norfolk Windmills Trust Tel. 01603 222705
Cruises on the Norfolk Broads on a restored pleasure steamer.
Stracey Armes Drainage Mill
Haven Bridge, Great Yarmouth. Tel. 07906 020225
Off A47 between Great Yarmouth and Acle.
Thurne Dyke Drainage Mill
Lydia Eva
Off B1152 between Fleggburgh & Marsham
Come aboard Great Yarmouth’s last steam drifter.
St. Olaves Drainage Mill
South Quay, Great Yarmouth. Tel. 01493 846346
East bank, River Waveney nr. St. Olaves bridge on A143. Gorleston Model Yacht Pond
Lower Promenade, Gorleston
MUSEUMS
North Drive Boating Lake
North Drive, Great Yarmouth
Time & Tide – Museum of Great Yarmouth Life
Award winning museum set in a preserved Victorian herring works.
Venetian Waterways
Blackfriars Road, Great Yarmouth. Tel. 01493 743930 North Drive, Great Yarmouth
The Tolhouse Great Yarmouth & Gorleston RNLI
Early medieval building once used as a courthouse and gaol Riverside Road, Gorleston-on-Sea. Tel. 01493 662508
with Victorian dungeons.
Caister Independent Lifeboat Station
Tolhouse Street, Great Yarmouth. Tel. 01493 858900
History of lifesaving at Caister from 1794.
Norfolk Nelson Museum Caister Beach, nr. Tan Lane, Caister-on-Sea. Tel. 01493 722001
Georgian Merchant’s house exploring Nelsons’ life.
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26 South Quay, Great Yarmouth Tel. 01493 850698
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