The Church of St Martin at Tours is situated in the vast deer park of Houghton Hall, now home to the Cholmondeley family, and continues to serve the village. Sir Robert Walpole, Britain's first Prime Minister, built the Hall in the 1720s and is buried in the church. There was once a village here before it was rebuilt elsewhere by Robert Walpole. The majority of the building dates to the 19th century. The tower was added by Robert Walpole. In the nave is an impressive life-sized effigy of the Prior of Coxford who died in 1307. Notice the dragon at his feet. There is an impressive array of hatchments, including one to the 5th Marquess of Cholmondeley who died in 1969. In the churchyard is a memorial plaque to 6 crew members of Avro Lancaster PB351 H-Harry 460 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force who died when their plane crashed on 23rd October 1944. The plane was returning to RAF Binbrook in Lincolnshire following a raid on Essen, the crew’s tenth mission, when it struck cloud and on descending hit a tree 70ft high in the parkland of the Hall. The Rear Gunner Flight Sergeant Rupert Bergelin was alive and trapped in the rear turret seriously injured. He died shortly afterwards in hospital. The sole survivor was Air Gunner Flight Sergeant John Cannon who lay unconscious in the parkland all night. The next morning he confronted a man, believing him to be a German farmer, but was told “You be in Norfolk boy. That’s King’s Lynn over there.” John Cannon returned to Australia. He made a trip back to Houghton Hall in 1988 and had tea with Lady Sybil Cholmondeley. He died in 2007 aged 82 and is also commemorated on the plaque. The plaque was unveiled in 2015 by Wing Commander Anthony O’Leary of the Australian Royal Air Force.