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Day trip from Tostock: Grimes Graves and Castle Acre, Norfolk, England, continued
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| The church and priory buildings are in ruins, but well marked with interpretive signs. Castle Acre is a British Heritage site. | Margaret walks toward the the still-recognizable church facade and nearly intact prior's house. |
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| The old stone stairs in the prior's house were still usable. | An ancient Gothic door in the prior's house. |
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| The worn steps lead into the prior's study, a perfect medieval room. | The study is a beautiful room, full of light. The little walled-up door behind the table opened into the garde-robe, a shaft in the wall used as a toilet. |
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The very old,rustic chest fit its surroundings so well!
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This door led to outside stairs down the side of the building to the churchyard below. |
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Day trip from Tostock: Aldeburgh and Dunwich Beach, Suffolk, England
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Aldeburgh
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| It was lunch time in Aldeburgh, a town bordered on two sides by the sea. Lionel and Margaret are inside, Bob reads the menu from the door. | We ate our fish and chips in the car beside a gray rolling sea. |
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| A Martello Tower, built during the Napoleonic Wars, still guards the beach at Aldeburgh. We could not get in it, but we walked all around it. | The day had started sunny, but turned gray and blowsy by noon. |
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| This picturesque Tudor building stood near a beach. I had to compete with other photographers to get a picture of it. | Benjamin Britten, famous music composer, lived in Aldeburgh. This is his memorial, erected by the town on their beach. |
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Dunwich Beach
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| Dunwich Beach doesn't look like much, but it has a tale to tell. Once there was a prosperous port town here. Successive storms in the 13th century washed most of it into the sea. | They say you can hear bells on the winds from the drowned town churches. Dunwich is still fighting erosion, trying to save what remains of the town. |
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| Purple heather and yellow gorse cover the seaside moorland just behind the beach. This area of "great natural beauty" is protected by the National Trust. | "...we'll go roaming, through the heather on the hills." |
