Medieval Swafield Barn

29/06/2024

05/04/2023

Yippee! Yet again we’ve smashed Airbnb’s high standards and achieved Superhost status! Massive thanks to our huge team who all play vital roles with laundry, cleaning, maintenance, gardening, hot tub, bookings etc. You know who you are! 💗

20/01/2023

Let’s hope the guests, who checked in two minutes after this photo was taken, find a pot of gold!

24/12/2022

29/05/2022

Walshingham is renowned as a place of pilgrimage and has been for centuries. Less than 30 miles from Medieval Swafield Barn, this article gives you a flavour of what to expect if you choose to visit.

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The little village of Walsingham is hoping that surging interest in pilgrimages will bring visitors back to its ancient shrine

06/04/2022

We are having an extended celebration of St Patrick’s day at Medieval Swafield Barn and this lovely rainbow completed the day!

Photo credit: Dragos Musat

14/10/2021

Autumn is a great time to visit the Deep History Coast. There's plenty to see and do. See our round up of things to do and what's on.

08/10/2021

10x Superhost! Woohoo! We are thrilled to receive this recognition of all the hard work our cleaning and maintenance crew do every changeover to ensure the best experience for our guests! It takes 20 hours of graft and attention to detail to prepare the barn each time and that’s not including the laundry and ironing!!

20/12/2020

We are in the unusual position of having availability for Christmas and new year due to last minute cancellations. If you are interested in making some wonderful memories, at the end of a trying year, in a beautiful spacious property, with massive enclosed garden, please get in touch. Bookings will need to be in line with current government guidelines so would probably suit a local family and their support bubble. Pets are welcome.

25/11/2020

Just a couple of minutes walk from the barn, you can join this trail.

The Paston way.

The Paston way takes its name from the Paston Family, the wealthy and dominant landowners in the area during Medieval and Tudor times. The Paston family in turn had taken their name from the small village of Paston on the north east Norfolk coast. They also wrote the famous Paston Letters.
The 22 mile route, between Cromer and North Walsham, travels through much of what was once their land and passes sixteen of the areas ancient and beautiful churches.
Each church has its own hidden history and one was even moved brick by brick from a cliff top to save it from the sea. (To visit all 14 of the fine churches on the Paston Way, the trail covers 29.5 miles).
In travelling church to church, the trail ambles down quiet lanes, through picturesque towns and villages, across vast arable fields, disused railway lines and quiet grazing pastures with views of the North Sea. Keep a look out for seals on the stretches of beach walk too.
Starting at the south eastern end, the path begins at the Parish Church of St Nicholas in North Walsham. The route then heads northwards along the old Mundesley Road out of the town. On the outskirts of the town the path follows the track bed of the disused Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway Company which linked North Walsham to Cromer. The path crosses the North Walsham & Dilham Canal at Swafield. Knapton Cutting, as this part of the trail is known, is also a nature and butterfly reserve. This section is an area of wild flowers, brambles, scrub and undisturbed grassy banks, which make it an ideal habitat for butterflies and nineteen different species have been recorded.
The path continues out of North Walsham, through the stunning countryside of North Norfolk to Cromer where it links with the Coast Road.