Cousin Graham drove us to Swaffham this morning to investigate our ancestors known to be connected to Saints Peter and Paul Church, which also happens to be a beautiful medieval parish church. It is Sunday, and we arrived in time to hear the eight bells pealing gloriously in advance of the morning service. We wandered through the vast churchyard while the service was on and found not one, but two likely relatives. Later we had a good look around inside the church.

We headed out of Swaffham once more to the Iceni Museum and Village in Cockley Cley, a private collection of farm implements, carriages and related items, plus a reconstructed iron age village, all the work of a baronet with a passion for anthropology. A little beyond the main buildings was a 7th century Saxon church, remarkably intact and probably built on the ruins of a Roman temple.

We checked out the village church and pub, then headed back to the village where our B&B is, making sure to walk around the village church there. It's sad to see some churchyards neglected, but easy to understand a parish unable to do much more than keep their building safe and usable. The Swaffham and Cockley Cley churches were well tended, but the Great Cressingham churchyard was very overgrown. The latter church was locked too, another sad sign of the times.