Two miles inland from the coast is the village of Felbrigg whose prominence on the map is guaranteed by its historic 17th century Hall. Felbrigg Hall is surrounded by acres of woodland and pastures grazed by cattle and crossed by the long distance path the Weavers Way.

On the estate is the church of St. Margaret which dates from the 15th century. It's isolated position explained by tales that the entire village relocated to its present site, some distance away, after the Black Death. Inside the church you will find one of the earliest portraits of a local resident a brass of Sir Symon de Felbrigg and his first wife Lady Margaret, daughter of the Duke of Teschen and cousin to Richard II first wife Queen Anne.  Sir Symon was the standard bearer to King Richard II and it was he that built the first hall on this site back in the 14th century.

The current Hall is now in the hands of the National Trust having been left to them by its last owner  R. Wyndham Ketton-Cremer who died in 1969, known hereabouts as "the Squire". Attached to the grounds are wonderful woodlands that in autumn carpet the land with red and gold leaves and eating chestnuts.

At nearby Roughton the mathematician and physicist Albert Einstein stayed in a cottage during the 1930s, after he left Germany in the wake of Adolf Hitler's rise to power.

Another National Trust property can be found closeby in the village of Upper Sheringham - Sheringham Park with its extensive parkland and woods with fine sea views.  Hundreds of rhododendrons and azalea bushes flower spectacularly each spring and attract visitors from both far and wide.  The estate originally belonged to Abbot and Charlotte Upcher who in 1811 purchased the estate.  They then went on to commission Humphrey Repton to design a hall and a park. At that time Repton was the foremost landscape designer in the country.  The small village, benefited considerably from the benevolence of the Upchers, who helped fund a school both in Upper Sheringham and also in Lower Sheringham, amongst other good deeds. 

In August 1892 Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) rented a farmhouse in the village of Felbrigg where he was told by his doctor to imbibe the pure Norfolk air. It was here that he worked on his play ‘A Woman of no Importance’ in 1893.