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Blisworth Tunnel, Northamptonshire

The Caxton Gibbet, Cambridgeshire

Dunwich Heath, Suffolk

Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk

Hamilton Stud Lane and Newmarket Racecourse,

Suffolk

Happisburgh, Norfolk

The Lantern Man at Thurlton, Norfolk

The Battle of Naseby Battlefield, Northamptonshire

The Norfolk Broads

The Old Ferry Boat Inn, Cambridgeshire

The Old Hall Inn, Norfolk

Oliver Cromwell’s House at Ely, Cambridgeshire

The St Anne’s Castle, Essex

The Triangular Lodge at Rushton, Northamptonshire

The White Hart Hotel, Lincoln

Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire

The World’s End, Northamptonshire

Eastern England may not have such dramatic scenery as some parts of Britain do, but it possesses its own distinctive beauty, captured by the Suffolk painter John Constable. The region includes the famous university town of Cambridge, the historic cathedral cities of Lincoln, Norwich and Ely, North Sea coastal resorts such as Skegness and Great Yarmouth, and the picturesque waterways of the Norfolk Broads.

The eastern area known as East Anglia, which contains the reclaimed marshland of the Fens, is known for its flatness and ‘big skies’, and there is surely something particularly eerie about this largely featureless landscape where the horizon seems to stretch to infinity and sounds echo from miles away. This haunting atmosphere is captured perfectly by the Victorian ghost-story writer M. R. James (see page 24), a Suffolk man, who used his archaeological knowledge to evoke the region’s legends and myths – you may be surprised at how many supernatural secrets from the Dark Ages lurk beneath the bogs and quicksands of the Fenland.