St Andrew Church, Brinton

The church sits tucked away in the Norfolk countryside near Brinton, a proper medieval structure that catches you off guard if you're wandering the lanes around here. St Andrew's is fundamentally a 14th-century building, though it's been fiddled with since, and what strikes you first is the sheer solidity of it - stone that's weathered centuries without fussing about it.

Inside, the space is wonderfully calm and reasonably well-preserved. You'll find good timber roof work and the kind of details that make old churches rewarding if you actually know what to look at - tracery, misericords, the usual medieval toolkit. It's not Lavenham grand or Salle show-stopping, but it's genuine and unpretentious.

Historically minded visitors get the most from this. It's not a place for kids to burn off energy, and there's no cafe or facilities to speak of, but that's rather the point. Walking distance from Ashcroft Glamping, if you're based that way, makes it a sensible half-hour diversion on a country stroll. The surrounding landscape is proper Norfolk - flat, open, slightly windswept - and the church anchors the walk nicely.

You'll want to check locally whether it's open when you visit, as rural churches can be temperamental about their doors. Don't go expecting revelations, but if you enjoy the tactile reality of English parish churches and the quietness they offer, it's genuinely worth the detour.