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Castle Acre Castle
© Zbigniew Siwik (view gallery)
Main entrance into the ruined Keep .

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Castle Acre Priory
© Zbigniew Siwik (view gallery)
The interior of the east range looking northward . As originally built , the remainder of the east range contained two vast rooms - the monks' dormitory above and a long vaulted room below , both now open to the sky .

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Castle Acre Priory
© Zbigniew Siwik (view gallery)
Castle Acre was the creation of the Warenne family , established in England by William de Warenne , a veteran of battle of Hastings . William founded the castle , and his son and descendants founded the priory on its existing site , laid out the town , and improved them over successive centuries . By the late Middle Ages the castle had been abandoned , and in 1537 the priory was suppressed , shattering the local economy but ensuring that the essentials of 12th-century Castle Acre remain with us today .

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Castle Acre Priory
© Zbigniew Siwik (view gallery)
In the 1080s , William de Warenne , a Norman knight settled a small band of monks near his Norfolk home . His son gave the Castle Acre monks a new site , where , in about 1090 the existing buildings were begun .

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Castle Acre Priory
© Zbigniew Siwik (view gallery)
Remains of ... latrine block . The main chancel flowed on westwards to power watermill , but the smaller one (invisible now) carrying waste took a separate course straight back to the river Nar .

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Castle Acre Priory
© Zbigniew Siwik (view gallery)
Ruins of the priory church seen from the cloister .

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Castle Acre Priory
© Zbigniew Siwik (view gallery)
Prior's lodging viewed from the cloister .

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Castle Acre Castle
© Zbigniew Siwik (view gallery)
Castle bridge .

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Castle Acre Castle, The Bridge over the moat
© Patricia Bullock (view gallery)
Beautiful Castle Acre Castle Norfolk, taken on a clear frosty morning,

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Castle Acre Priory
© Zbigniew Siwik (view gallery)
Undercroft

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Castle Acre Priory
© Zbigniew Siwik (view gallery)
Prior's Chapel .

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Castle Acre Priory, Norfolk
© Grant Shaw (view gallery)

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Castle Acre Priory
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Castle Acre Priory recreated herb garden

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Castle Acre Priory
© Chas Rigby (view gallery)

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Castle Acre Priory, Norfolk
© Steve Willimott (view gallery)

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Castle Acre Castle, Norfolk
© Steve Willimott (view gallery)

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Village cottages
© Adam Swaine (view gallery)

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Village Church
© Adam Swaine (view gallery)

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Village sign
© Adam Swaine (view gallery)

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Castle Acre, Norfolk
© J.m. Van Der Putten (view gallery)

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Castle Acre Castle
© Jez Taylor (view gallery)

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Castle Acre, Norfolk
© J.m. Van Der Putten (view gallery)

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Castle Acre Priory
© Jez Taylor (view gallery)

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Castle Acre, Norfolk
© J.m. Van Der Putten (view gallery)

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Castle Acre Priory
© Jez Taylor (view gallery)

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Castle Acre
© Escape The Wild (view gallery)

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Castle Acre
© Ian Gedge (view gallery)

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Castle Acre
© Paul V. A. Johnson (view gallery)

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Castle Acre, Norfolk
© Michael Matney (view gallery)

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Castle Acre Castle
© Zbigniew Siwik (view gallery)
Castle Acre Castle was originally an 11th century stone two storey fortified manor house, built over a late Anglo-Saxon manor house. Founded by William de Warenne, his son William, the second earl of Surrey .

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Castle Acre
© Paul V. A. Johnson (view gallery)

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Castle Acre, Norfolk
© Michael Matney (view gallery)

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Castle Acre
© Paul V. A. Johnson (view gallery)

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Castle Acre Priory, Norfolk
© Michael Matney (view gallery)

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Saint James the Great Church, Castle Acre
© Paul V. A. Johnson (view gallery)

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View from the nave, Castle Acre Priory, Norfolk
© Grant Shaw (view gallery)

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Saint James the Great Church, Castle Acre
© Paul V. A. Johnson (view gallery)

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A Slideshow of Castle Acre, in the county of Norfolk

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