100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum, Diss

Name: 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum
Address: Common Road, Dickleburgh, IP21 4PH, Diss, United Kingdom

#2 among attractions in Diss

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The 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum, located in the original control tower and other remaining buildings of the RAF Thorpe Abbotts airfield east of Diss in Norfolk is dedicated to the American soldiers and members of the US 8th Air Force who fought with the Allies in Norfolk in World War II. The area also became known as the "Fields of Little America" due to the number of Americans stationed there. ()

Coordinates: 52°23'11"N, 1°12'45"E

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Common Road, Dickleburgh, IP21 4PHDiss United Kingdom

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100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Eye Castle, Billingford Windmill, Burston Strike School, Wingfield Castle.

5.3 miSW
Forts and castles
Eye Castle
135 min walk • Eye Castle is a motte and bailey medieval castle with a prominent Victorian addition in the town of Eye, Suffolk. Built shortly after the Norman conquest of England in 1066, the castle was sacked and largely destroyed in 1265.
2.1 miSW
Windmill
Billingford Windmill
55 min walk • Billingford Windmill is a grade II* listed brick tower mill at Billingford near Diss, Norfolk, England which has been preserved and restored to working order. As of June 2009, the mill is under repair, with new sails being made.
3.3 miW
Museum, History museum
Burston Strike School, Diss
85 min walk • The Burston Strike School was founded as a consequence of a school strike and became the centre of the longest running strike in British history, that lasted from 1914 to 1939 in the village of Burston in Norfolk, England.
3.4 miSE
Forts and castles
Wingfield Castle
86 min walk • Wingfield Castle in the parish of Wingfield in Suffolk, England is a fortified manor house which was the ancestral home of the Wingfield family and their heirs, the de la Pole family, created Earls and Dukes of Suffolk. It is now a private house.
7.2 miSW
Church
St Mary's Church
184 min walk • St Mary's Church is a medieval church in Thornham Parva, Suffolk, England. Much of the fabric dates from the 12th century, and it is a Grade I listed building.
5.3 miSW
Park
The Pennings
135 min walk • The Pennings is a 2.7 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Eye in Suffolk. It is owned and managed by Mid Suffolk District Council. This site on the east bank of the River Dove is managed as a hay meadow.
2.1 miNW
Church
St George's Church
54 min walk • St George's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Shimpling, Norfolk, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
4.4 miW
52°22'38"N • 1°6'31"E
Diss Museum, Diss
113 min walk • Museum, Specialty museum
3.3 miW
Church
St Andrew's Church
83 min walk • St Andrew's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the civil parish of Scole, Norfolk, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
5 miSW
Monastery
Eye Priory, Eye
127 min walk • Eye Priory was a Benedictine Priory dedicated to St Peter in the town of Eye in the English county of Suffolk. It was founded by Robert Malet c. 1080 and originally an Alien Priory dependent on Bernay Abbey in Normandy.