The Ship King and the Drowned Town
The Ship King and the Drowned Town
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The Ship King and the Drowned Town

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Essex/Suffolk/Norfolk

A slow east-coast drive from a Saxon chapel in Roman walls to a buried ship king, a town lost to the sea and Norman power projects in Norfolk.

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Route map0 stops · 3 along the way
Plan your visit
Getting there
Long east-coast drive best split over two or three days; car is essential for the full route.
Parking
Use official site and village car parks; Dunwich and the Norfolk sites can be busy in summer.
Best time
Late spring to early autumn; bring layers for exposed coastal stops.
Terrain
Road route with short site walks across marsh, coast, burial mounds, priory grass and rural lanes.

The trip story

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    Some site IDs in this trip weren't found in the sheet: st-peter-on-the-wall, greensted-church, sutton-hoo, dunwich-greyfriars, thetford-priory, castle-acre-priory, baconsthorpe-castle

    What remains

    What remains is eastern England as a long palimpsest: Roman walls, Saxon timber, royal treasure, swallowed towns and Norman ambition fading into grass.

    Along the way