Queens Road Cemetery

The Victorian gravestones at Queens Road Cemetery in Fakenham tell proper stories if you take time to read them. This is a working burial ground, not a museum piece, so you're walking among both ancient tombs and relatively recent graves - which gives it a different feel from some heritage sites that feel frozen in time.

What strikes you first is the sheer craft of the stonework. Elaborate headstones from the 1800s sit alongside simpler markers, and you can spend an hour just looking at the inscriptions and trying to piece together who these people were. There's something oddly grounding about it - walking through the lives of ordinary Fakenham folk from over a century ago.

It's free to visit and there's no set opening hours that I'm aware of, though you'll want daylight for reading the stones properly. Allow an hour if you're genuinely interested in the monuments; twenty minutes if you're just passing through. Families with older kids who aren't squeamish about graveyards will find it educational rather than morbid.

If you're based at Norfolk Coast Caravans and Camping just down the road, or at one of the glamping spots like Wild Meadow or North Norfolk Glamping a few miles out, this makes a decent rainy-day wander. It won't fill a full day, but combined with a proper look around Fakenham's town centre, it rounds out a morning nicely. Not the sort of thing that makes your holiday highlight reel, but genuinely worth an hour if you've got the time.