Drayton Lodge: a Fifteenth-Century Hunting Lodge near Norwich

摘要

The decayed ruins of Drayton Lodge (fig. 1) stand in the grounds of a nurses' hostel immediately south-west of the main Norwich to Fakenham road (the A1067), some 4 miles (6.4 km) north-west of the city centre and within the parish of Drayton (NGR: TG/187132). The building is set on a hilltop overlooking the valley of the River Wensum to the south-west. Until about the end of the eighteenth century the area was open heathland, but in more recent times trees have encroached, even within the building itself, whilst the area is becoming increasingly built-up.