English Heritage sites near Hitcham Parish
LINDSEY ST JAMES'S CHAPEL
5 miles from Hitcham Parish
A pretty thatched 13th century chapel with lancet windows.
BURY ST EDMUNDS ABBEY
11 miles from Hitcham Parish
The extensive remains of one of the wealthiest and most powerful Benedictine monasteries in England, shrine of St Edmund.
MISTLEY TOWERS
15 miles from Hitcham Parish
Two porticoed Classical towers, which stood at each end of a grandiose but highly unconventional Georgian church, designed by Robert Adam in 1776.
LEXDEN EARTHWORKS AND BLUEBOTTLE GROVE
16 miles from Hitcham Parish
The banks and ditches of a series of late Iron Age defences protecting the western side of Camulodunum – pre-Roman Colchester.
COLCHESTER, ST BOTOLPH'S PRIORY
17 miles from Hitcham Parish
The remains of one of the first Augustinian priories in England, founded in c.1100 and an impressive example of early Norman architecture.
ST JOHN'S ABBEY GATE
17 miles from Hitcham Parish
This pinnacled gatehouse, elaborately decorated in East Anglian 'flushwork', is the sole survivor of the wealthy Benedictine abbey of St John.