We started out today a few miles from our B&B in the village of Castle Acre. First delight was St James, the parish church, full of medieval treasures as well as harvest vegetables. It was perplexing that this church had a confession table and chair as well as a Lady Chapel clearly in use for prayers to the Virgin Mary, but turned out to be C of E, not Catholic. Just outside the village are the ruins of one of the few Cluniac priories in England. There are substantial foundations, some partial walls and most of a whole building left, indicating the massive complex it must have been until the Dissolution in the mid-16th century.

On the other side of the village was a castle ruin from about the 11th century. Its most impressive features were the huge earthworks set up to protect it. Now it's just a mostly grassy monument on the popular Pedlars Way hiking trail.

Since we had some afternoon left, we went north to a lavender farm near the coast, then took a scenic route back to our digs while the sun set beautifully.