Eye Castle

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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. Sir Edward Kerrison built a stone house on the motte in 1844: the house later decayed into ruin, becoming known as Kerrison's Folly in subsequent years. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 52°19'12"N, 1°9'0"E

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Eye Castle – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Bressingham Steam & Gardens, 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum, Billingford Windmill, Wingfield Castle.

6 miNW
Museum, Specialty museum, Garden
Bressingham Steam & Gardens, Diss
154 min walk • Bressingham Steam & Gardens is a steam museum and gardens located at Bressingham, west of Diss in Norfolk, England. The site has several narrow gauge rail lines and a number of types of steam engines and vehicles in its collection and is also the home of the national Dad's Army exhibition.
5.3 miNE
Museum
100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum, Diss
135 min walk • 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.
3.2 miNE
Windmill
Billingford Windmill
82 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.
5.1 miNE
Forts and castles
Wingfield Castle
130 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.
6.3 miNW
Church
St Mary's Church
160 min walk • St Mary's Church is the redundant Church of England parish church of the village of Redgrave, Suffolk, England. It is a Grade I listed building. and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. The church is on a rise about 3⁄4 mile east of the village.
5.6 miSW
Church
St Mary
143 min walk • The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Church of England parish church in Mendlesham, Suffolk. The church is a grade I listed building.
2.5 miW
Church
St Mary's Church
64 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 miS
Museum
Mid-Suffolk Light Railway, Debenham
128 min walk • The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway was a standard gauge railway intended to open up an agricultural area of central Suffolk; it took advantage of the reduced construction cost enabled by the Light Railways Act 1896.
~980 ftSE
Park
The Pennings
5 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.
5.5 miN
Church
St George's Church
141 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.
4.3 miNW
52°22'38"N • 1°6'31"E
Diss Museum, Diss
110 min walk • Museum, Specialty museum