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7. Climb the battlements at Framlingham Castle

Framlingham Castle makes a royally good family day out. Image: English Heritage

Train to Wickham Market, then 25 min bus

For your fix of moats, ramparts, battlements and the like, Framlingham is Suffolk's premier castle.
It's a right old palimpsest, with Norman-era walls rubbing shoulders with decorative Tudor
chimneys — plus the 17th/18th century workhouses, where the poorest locals from the nearby

market town came to work, and sometimes live. A highlight is a walk along the castle's towering
wall, from which you can gaze on the Framlingham Mere countryside. They put on fun half term

events here, with Mary Tudor — proclaimed Queen of England at Framlingham in 1553 —
sometimes making a 'return visit' for a Q&A sesh. Framlingham Castle, from £11.60/£6.90