Cow Tower
Cow Tower is in Norwich District, Norfolk, England. Cow Tower is situated nearby to the health club Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing, as well as near The Castle Public House.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Cow Tower and Norwich Cathedral.
Cow Tower
Historic building
Photo: Robert Powell, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cow Tower is an artillery tower by the River Wensum in Norwich, Norfolk, England. Built between 1398 and 1399 by the city authorities in response to the threat from France and indigenous English rebels, the tower was intended to defend the north-eastern approach to Norwich with hand cannons and bombards.
Norwich Cathedral
Church
Photo: Aleister Crowley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Norwich Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, is a Church of England cathedral in the city of Norwich, Norfolk, England. Norwich Cathedral is situated 1,800 feet southwest of Cow Tower.
The Swan Pit And Sluice The Great Hospital
Reservoir
Photo: Adrian S Pye, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Swan Pit And Sluice The Great Hospital is a reservoir.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thorpe Hamlet and Norwich.
Thorpe Hamlet
Suburb
Thorpe Hamlet is a suburb of Norwich, to the east of the city centre, in the Norwich District, in the English county of Norfolk. It was constituted a separate ecclesiastical parish on 9 March 1852, from the civil parish of Old Thorpe, and in 1912, was in the rural deanery of Blofield.
Norwich
Photo: Ashley Dace, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Norwich, a two-cathedral city, is the capital of the English county of Norfolk, within the larger region of East Anglia. It lies some 185 km NNE of London, and as well as being a convenient base for exploring the Broads and the North Norfolk Coast is also…
Heartsease Estate, Norwich
Suburb
Photo: Jon Welch, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Heartsease is a housing estate located in Norwich, Norfolk and takes its name from the heartsease, a common European wild flower.
Cow Tower
- Type: Sign
- Categories: information and tourism
- Location: Norwich District, Norfolk, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.63414° or 52° 38′ 3″ northLongitude
1.30829° or 1° 18′ 30″ eastOpen location code
9F43J8M5+M8OpenStreetMap ID
node 3824623518OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=information
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