An atmospheric moated, brick country house, Oxborough Hall was completed in 1482 by Sir Edmund Bedingfeld, and his descendants have lived here ever since.

There is a substantial courtyard in the centre of the structure.

Inside where typical furnishings of the time.

Something I hadn’t seen before was this wallpaper made of leather.

Also unexpected were the Oxburgh Hangings, needlework bed hangings made by Mary, Queen of Scots and Bess of Hardwick, during the period of Mary’s captivity in England.

A notable feature off the Great Hall is a priest hole, built to conceal Catholic priests during times of religious repression, accessed through a toilet.

From here a spiral staircase leads to the exit.

An attractive 19th century Roman Catholic church lies in the grounds.

It has a pleasant walled garden.

Later that day I stopped at Grime’s Graves, the site of pre-historic flint mines, which turned out to be a fascinating place. This site rich in flint was mined over 3,500 years ago, with more than 430 shafts and quarries in the landscape.

One of these is accessible via a 9m descent down a ladder into mine, with clear shafts extending out from it, and atmospheric and informative visuals displayed.