AA Phone Box • Brancaster Staithe

 AA (Automobile Association) Box No. 530

Situated in a long layby between Brancaster and Brancaster Staithe. Wooden construction with asphalt roof, it was given Grade II listing status in 1987.

One of around 800 similar phone boxes, of which only 19 remain.

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St Mary's Church • Brancaster

St Mary's is the parish church for Brancaster. Earliest masonry is 12th century, but the majority is 14th and 15th century. It was re-roofed in 1832. 

The church was given Grade I listed building status in 1953.

OS Flush Bracket benchmark on the south-west corner of the church. 10.355m

Some nice 18th century headstones in the graveyard. 

'ENTRANCE TO THE VAULT 

market stone

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Pillbox • Brancaster

 

Type 24 pillbox on the sea defences at Brancaster. 

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Font • Brancaster

 Octagonal stone font dating to 14th or 15th century. The spire font cover is 15th century. 

Inside St Mary's Church, Brancaster. Grade I listed. 

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Roman Fort • Branodvnvm

 The site of the Roman fort of Branodvnum. The fort was constructed in the 230s and would become one of the eleven such forts to form the Saxon Shore Fort system around the South and East coast of England. The fort system was used to control and protect shipping, as well as defend for overseas raiders. They were only abandoned when the Romans finally withdrew from England. 

Possible evidence indicates it was used during the Anglo-Saxon period.

The Time Team TV series visited the site in 2012 and the show was broadcast in 2013.

The site is now owned and cared for by the National Trust as part of the Brancaster Estate. 

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War Memorial • Brancaster

 

The war memorial was erected in c.1920 to commemorate those men lost in the First World War. Six names were added later to also include those of the Second World War. 

At the bottom of the plinth is a line added to remember John 'James' Sharp DFC, who was lost during the Berlin Air Lift in 1949. He was sadly killed with two others on 21st March 1949 when their plane hit high ground at Schleswigland .

The memorial was awarded Grade II listing status in 2015.

There is also a memorial bronze inside the church.

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Memorial Plaque • Brancaster

 

Memorial plaque to Jake Parker, a five year old boy who was swept away by the sea in 2000 while on a family holiday. A link to the news article can be found HERE.

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