Breckland Highlights

2025, Heritage Open Days, Events

Breckland spans over miles of idyllic countryside with picturesque market towns!

Great Cressingham Victorian School

The Street, Great Cressingham, IP25 6NL

Children dressed up in Victorian caps and waist coats
Great Cressingham Victorian School

Visit this school and museum to try your hand at writing on slates, using dip pens and take part in a lesson using the school's extensive natural history collection.

Sat 20 & Sun 21: 12pm-4pm

Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse

Beetley, NR20 4DR

Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse

Discover Norfolk’s rural history over 50 acres of glorious countryside, from the traditional working farm to the lives of the residents of the Victorian workhouse.

Sun 21: 10am-5pm

Marking the Milestones

Dereham Station, Station Road, Dereham, NR19 1DF

Dereham Station

Marking 200 years of the 'modern' railway and 30 years of the Mid-Norfolk Railway, see trains in action, that old station atmosphere, informative displays, and more!

Sat 13: 10am-4pm

Our Village - Our History - Our Story

The Crown Public House, 30 Church Street, Great Ellingham, NR17 1LE

Explore some of Great Ellingham's past and present buildings and the owners, occupiers, designers and architects connected to them.

Sat 20 & Sun 21: 11am-4pm