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Located just 6 miles from Kings Lynn, Norfolk, and 3 miles from the Royal Sandringham Estate, the Ffolkes Arms Hotel provides the perfect base for exploring North Norfolk.
We are a family run hotel offering first class accommodation and a wide range of services including hotel rooms, conference and seminar facilities, private function rooms and we are licensed for civil ceremonies.
With personal service and close attention to detail, our skilled staff provide you with a helpful yet unobtrusive service ensuing a relaxed and friendly atmosphere for you to enjoy during your stay.
The hotels accommodation wing, originally a stable block, provides 20 tastefully furnished rooms, all complete with en-suite facilities.
We have twin-bedded and double beds as well as a family room that is suitable for two adults and two children in bunk beds.
There is also a fully equipped ground floor room to cater for disabled residents wishing to stay at our hotel.
Non-residents are also welcome to come and enjoy the atmosphere of this 300 year old coaching inn along with good home-cooked bar meals and fine ales.
History
The hotel bears the name of the Ffolkes family and was constructed more than three hundred years ago during the time of the Hovell family who were the original owners of Hillington Hall, the gatehouse of which is preserved and stands a hundred yards down the road.
At one time the Hillington Hall estate extended over 8000 acres including the land on which the FFolkes Arms Hotel now stands.
The Ffolkes family acquired the estate around 1678 when Martin Ffolkes, who was the Attorney General to Queen Catherine, wife of King Charles II, married, Dorothy Hovell, daughter of Sir William Hovell.
The Ffolkes family coat-of-arms can be seen on the sign above our front entrance and is also in the entrance way near the hotel reception.
The hotel became well known as a very popular Coaching Inn, being located on the main mailing route from the Midlands to Norwich. For a period of time, the attic rooms were used as an overnight Gaol for the prison carriages on their way to the prison in Norwich.
There are many rumours that the hotel is haunted by a young nanny who apparently threw herself out of the attic bedrooms during the later part of the 19th century and was embedded on the iron railings that once ran along the front of the Inn.