Burgh Castle, Norfolk
Burgh Castle is a suburb of Great Yarmouth. Sounds great, doesn’t it? But it’s also the site of one of the most intact Roman forts in the country, built on high ground overlooking what would in the fourth century AD have been a vast spreading estuary but is now a glorious expanse of reedy marsh and meadow dotted with windmills like something out of a Dutch 17th-century landscape painting.
It’s an unusual and evocative place: the fort’s walls are gasping… (View original article)