Carl’s Liked Places

Carl Griffin: Beautiful royal country house with impressive landscaped gardens. Used by the Queen for the Christmas period. A must visit if in the King's Lynn area.

Carl Griffin: Former water pumping windmill converted into an impressive holiday let.

Carl Griffin: Many mounds which contained the graves of East Anglian saxon royalty. In 1939 a spectacular ship burial of King Raedwald from 625AD was discovered.

Carl Griffin: Enormous Jacobean mansion filled with lavishly decorated rooms. Run by English Heritage.

Carl Griffin: The most Westerly point in mainland England. Impressive views out over the Atlantic.

Carl Griffin: Stunning Victorian country house with an impressive gatehouse. Run by the National Trust. Worth the entrance fee.

Carl Griffin: Remote setting on a desolate moor. Made famous by Daphne du Maurier's novel of the same name. Has a small smuggling museum. Great real ales.

Carl Griffin: Wonderful Elizabethan manor famous for its barrel roofed ceiling in the great chamber. National Trust run property.

Carl Griffin: Impressive replica of Sir Francis Drake's Golden Hind. Worth the small entrance fee.

Carl Griffin: Famous haunt of smugglers. Great food and real ales.

Carl Griffin: Stunning castle renovated in the Victorian period. Wonderful terraced gardens and a view out to sea.

Carl Griffin: Where Coleridge penned his famous The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

Carl Griffin: Lovely open area with the cathedral as a backdrop.

Carl Griffin: The cheese stall is great.

Carl Griffin: Great value factory outlet shops.

Carl Griffin: Wonderful 13th century moated palace. Supposedly the oldest inhabited building in England.

Carl Griffin: Beautiful medieval cathedral with an impressive pair of scissor arches seperating the nave from the choir.

Carl Griffin: Friendly rugby club playing a good standard of rugby. Currently in National 2 South division.

Carl Griffin: Impressive flight of 29 locks which raise the water level 72 metres in just 2 1/2 miles.

Carl Griffin: Wonderful place for a short break. Stay in a chalet in the woods. Plenty of entertainment, sports facilities and bars.

Carl Griffin: Beautiful views of the nearby hills. Great quality pub food and real ales.

Carl Griffin: Beautiful steep cobbled hill with some picturesque cottages along its length. Made famous in a black & white hovis advert.

Carl Griffin: Interesting remains of a castle built in 1393. Severely damaged in the civil war. Worth the small entrance fee.

Carl Griffin: Site of Britain's clandestine space rocket testing in the 1950s.

Carl Griffin: Established in 1862 & guarded the Western tip of the Isle of Wight right through to WW2. Best place for viewing the needles.

Carl Griffin: Stunning jagged chalk rocks stretching out like a dinosaurs backbone out to sea. A truly impressive sight.

Carl Griffin: Beautiful medieval castle. Was the prison of King Charles I before he was transported to London for his execution.

Carl Griffin: Beautifully restored 18th century hotel. Great food and real ales.

Carl Griffin: Immaculately preserved labourers cottages charting the history of shipbuilding in the river inlet. Very interesting.

Carl Griffin: Impressive monuments commemorating the events of Magna Carta which was signed on the site.