St George's Church

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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. It stands at the end of a short lane to the south of the village. ()

Coordinates: 52°23'57"N, 1°10'5"E

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St George's Church – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

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

5 miW
Museum, Specialty museum, Garden
Bressingham Steam & Gardens, Diss
127 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.
5.5 miS
Forts and castles
Eye Castle
141 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 miSE
Museum
100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum, Diss
54 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.
2.6 miS
Windmill
Billingford Windmill
67 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.
1.3 miW
Museum, History museum
Burston Strike School, Diss
32 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.
5.3 miSE
Forts and castles
Wingfield Castle
136 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.
7.8 miNW
Windmill
Old Buckenham Windmill
199 min walk • Old Buckenham Windmill is a tower flour mill which stands in the village of Old Buckenham, Norfolk, England. It is a Grade II* listed building, notable for being the largest diameter windmill in the country.
6.6 miNW
Forts and castles
Buckenham Castle
168 min walk • Old Buckenham Castle and Buckenham Castle are two castles adjacent respectively to the villages of Old Buckenham and New Buckenham, Norfolk, England.
5.6 miS
Park
The Pennings
143 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.
2.9 miSW
52°22'38"N • 1°6'31"E
Diss Museum, Diss
75 min walk • Museum, Specialty museum
1.9 miSW
Church
St Andrew's Church
49 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.