Sacred place · Medieval
Pillar of Eliseg
Denbighshire
A ninth-century royal inscription and a Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking spread) burial mound occupy the same stone, three thousa…
- Near Denbigh
- Some walking
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Pinchbeck Engine
Lincolnshire
A coal-fired scoop wheel once lifted up to 3.7 million tons of floodwater a year to keep Pinchbeck Marsh dry: now it is the earliest surviving A-fr…
- Near Pinchbeck
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Pinxton Castle
Derbyshire
A three-metre mound and damp inner ditch in Castle Wood preserve Pinxton’s unusual medieval manor layout, with the moat inside its outer defences.
- Near Bakewell
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Pixie's Hole
Devon
Pixie’s Hole is a scheduled Devon limestone cave whose late twentieth-century excavation revealed a rich Late Upper Palaeolithic concentration bene…
- Near Exeter
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Roman
Planetrees (Hadrian's Wall section)
Northumberland
Thirty-five metres of Wall that survive because William Hutton argued a workman out of demolishing them in 1801: ninety-five yards had already gone.
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Plas Mawr
conwy-county-borough
Robert Wynn's 1576–85 Conwy house retains rare Elizabethan plasterwork and a near-original plan, preserved by centuries of later reuse and restored…
- Near Conwy
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Playford Hall
Suffolk
Thomas Clarkson leased the house in 1813, in the years between the abolition of the slave trade and the campaign against slavery itself.
- Near Playford
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Pleasley Colliery
Derbyshire
Its two steam winding engines, built in 1905 and 1922, are among the few in the world still preserved complete inside their original engine-house.
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Pont Fawr
Conwy
A Grade I listed, three-arched Llanrwst bridge completed in 1636, valued both for its design and for a long-running but unproven link to Inigo Jones.
- Near Conwy
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Pont Minllyn
gwynedd
A bridge with no road left on it. Two arches still span the Dyfi, but the deck has gone and grass has closed over the top, leaving a crossing to be…
- Near Dinas Mawddwy
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Pont-y-Cafnau
Merthyr Tydfil
Pont-y-Cafnau is the world’s earliest surviving iron railway bridge, built in 1793 to unite limestone transport and water power for Cyfarthfa Ironw…
- Near Merthyr Tydfil
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Roman
Ponter's Ball Dyke
Somerset
A bank of layered yellow and grey clay running between two former swamps, with an entrance that appears to be original.
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Tomb or burial place · Roman
Ponton Heath Barrow Cemetery
Lincolnshire
At least eleven Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first spread) burial mounds once stood on this ridge; five were bulldozed for iro…
- Near Great Ponton
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Popping Stone
Northumberland
The Popping Stone preserves an unusually specific courtship tradition: and the mystery of why its single landmark boulder became three after 1870.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Popton Fort
Pembrokeshire
One half of a matched pair of Milford Haven forts, its hexagonal ramparts and eleven-gun casemates now stand fenced inside a working oil refinery r…
- Near Angle
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Building or ruin · Roman
Port Way
Hampshire
Much of its course survives not as a monument but as a working hedgerow, lane and field boundary: a rare case study in how completely a Roman road…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Portchester Castle
Hampshire
A Roman shore fort still standing to nearly its full height, with a Norman keep, a royal palace and a prisoner-of-war depot all built inside the sa…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Portfield Hillfort
Lancashire
Portfield Hillfort is a rare north-west English enclosure later enlarged with additional banks, with excavations revealing use from the late Stone…
- Near Whalley
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Roman
Portgate
Northumberland
Portgate reveals Rome adapting to its own past: Hadrian’s Wall had to control fifty-year-old Dere Street rather than simply block it.
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Porth Wen Brickworks
Isle of Anglesey
Porth Wen Brickworks preserves a rare coastal industrial system: quartzite quarries, gravity incline, fire-brick works and loading quay, much of it…
- Near Amlwch
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Porth yr Aur
gwynedd
The seaward gate of Edward I's walled town at Caernarfon, badly damaged in the Welsh revolt of 1294 and repaired at a cost of £1,195: a third of wh…
- Near Bangor
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Fortified place · Medieval
Porth-Mawr Gatehouse
Powys
A fifteenth-century gatehouse in central Crickhowell, built for the Herbert family.
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Portslade Manor
East Sussex
Portslade Old Manor is a rare surviving Norman manor house, linking Domesday landholding, a medieval fair and later charitable reuse within one sch…
- Near Hastings
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Portsmouth Block Mills
Hampshire
Here, in 1803, ten labourers using Brunel's all-metal machines began outproducing 110 skilled craftsmen: the moment mass production entered the ind…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Portus Adurni
Hampshire
Almost the entire circuit of Roman wall still stands to nearly its original height, making this the best-preserved Roman fort north of the Alps.
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Building or ruin · Roman
Portus Lemanis
Kent
Portus Lemanis preserves a Roman naval and Saxon Shore stronghold above the former coast, explaining both Lympne’s name and the changing landscape…
- Near Lympne
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Building or ruin · Roman
Poundbury Hill
Dorset
Poundbury Hill preserves an exceptional sequence from early farming settlement through a hillfort, a defended enclosure on high ground, ringed with…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Presaddfed Burial Chamber
Isle of Anglesey
Two Neolithic tombs stand so close together that antiquarians still cannot agree whether they were ever one chamber beneath a single mound.
- Near Bangor
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Priddy Circles
Somerset
Four circular bank-and-ditch enclosures near Priddy in the Mendips, protected by law.
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Priddy Nine Barrows and Ashen Hill Barrow Cemeteries
Somerset
Two Bronze Age barrow cemeteries on the two highest ridges in the district: scheduled in 1933, possibly to stop local schools digging them.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Priory Gatehouse, Usk
Monmouthshire
The only substantial survivor of a Benedictine priory founded around 1135: a gatehouse whose windows suggest it may have been built after the monks…
- Near Usk
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Medieval
Puleston Cross
Shropshire
Puleston Cross is a medieval memorial and market monument whose relocation, disputed identity and archaeological surroundings preserve Newport’s ch…
- Easy path
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Ancient place · Medieval
Pwll Du Tunnel
Monmouthshire
Six thousand feet of tunnel, worked by horses: the longest horse-powered tramway tunnel built in Britain, and originally just a mine.
- Near Blaenavon
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Quakers Friars
Bristol
A single Bristol plot carries two founding stories at once: a medieval Dominican friary (a house of friars, who worked among townspeople rather tha…
- Near Bristol
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Queen's House
Greater London
Queen’s House is England’s first consciously classical building, designed by Inigo Jones for Stuart queens and central to the river vista at Greenw…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Queenhithe
City of London
A silted tidal inlet in the middle of the City of London is the last surviving dock on the whole modern waterfront, its walls now doing duty as flo…
- Near London
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Racton Monument
West Sussex
A four-storey brick folly of 1766–75, built either as a summerhouse or so an earl could watch his ships dock at Emsworth, and derelict since.
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Radcliffe Tower
Greater Manchester
Radcliffe Tower is the sole survival of a fortified 1403 manor house, a rare Grade I listed and scheduled remnant of local lordship in Greater Manc…
- Near Radcliffe
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
RAF Upper Heyford
Oxfordshire
A Cold War frontline base whose F-111s flew the 1986 Libya raid and Gulf War combat missions is now being rebuilt, house by house, into a town of 6…
- Near Upper Heyford
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Ravenglass Roman Bath House
Cumbria
Its walls still stand nearly four metres high above the Cumbrian coast: one of the tallest surviving Roman structures in northern Britain, saved by…
- Near Ravenglass
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Raw Dykes
Leicestershire
Raw Dykes is a scheduled Leicester earthwork (a bank, ditch or mound shaped from soil rather than built in stone), most likely a Roman aqueduct, wh…
- Near Leicester
- Easy path
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Building or ruin
Reform Tower, Derbyshire
Derbyshire
Reform Tower is a compact gritstone monument that turns the 1832 Reform Act into a permanent political landmark on Stanton Moor, its blocked doorwa…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Regulbium
Kent
One low headland carried a Roman signal station, a Saxon Shore fort, and a royal Anglo-Saxon monastery whose abbot rose to become Archbishop of Can…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin
Resurgam
Denbighshire
Forty-five feet of iron plating, wrapped in wood and bound with iron straps, lies broken but intact on the seabed of Liverpool Bay off Rhyl, in 60…
- Near Denbigh
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Sacred place · Roman
Rey Cross
County Durham
Rey Cross is a protected Stainmore landmark whose uncertain purpose: legendary Viking grave or boundary marker: was tested but not resolved by mode…
- Near Bishop Auckland
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Medieval
Riasg Buidhe Cross
Argyll and Bute
Its carver rendered Christ with spiral arms and a fishtail body, an image found nowhere else among Scotland's early medieval (roughly AD 400–1100,…
- Near Scalasaig
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Richborough Castle
Kent
The place where Roman Britain both began and ended: Claudius's invasion beachhead of AD 43 and, four centuries later, one of the last Roman foothol…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Rillaton Barrow
Cornwall
Rillaton Barrow produced the celebrated Rillaton Gold Cup, a rare Bronze Age (the period from about 2500 to 800 BC) grave object now displayed at t…
- Near Liskeard
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Ringlemere barrow
Kent
A metal-detected gold cup led to the discovery that this ploughed-out mound sits atop Kent's largest known assemblage of Neolithic (the late Stone…
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Settlement · Iron Age
Ringmoor
Dorset
Ringmoor is a well-preserved Iron Age (from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest) and Romano-British (Britain under Roman rule, AD 43–410) farmin…
- Near Okeford Fitzpaine
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Ripley Market Cross
North Yorkshire
Ripley Market Cross preserves the steps of a fifteenth-century market marker, later transformed by a sundial after the market itself faded.
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Robin Hood's Ball
Wiltshire
A single-causeway enclosure built centuries before Stonehenge existed, its lone entrance the rarest layout among Britain's Neolithic (the late Ston…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Robin Hood's Stone
Merseyside
Robin Hood’s Stone is a scheduled Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC) standing stone in Liverpool, preserving cup-marked prehistoric (before written r…
- Near Lincoln
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Ancient place · Medieval
Rock moated site and medieval village
Worcestershire
A moat and the plough-marked streets of a vanished village survive side by side at Rock - proof that a 1328 market grant once served a settlement f…
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Roman
Roman Bath, York
North Yorkshire
A working pub built directly over a legionary bath house, its caldarium still visible beneath the bar where soldiers of Rome's Ninth Legion once wa…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Roman Baths (Bath)
Somerset
A public bathing complex around the sacred hot spring, with a temple raised here between AD 60 and 70.
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Roman column, York
North Yorkshire
A single reassembled Roman column stands within sight of York Minster's towers: the last upright fragment of the legionary headquarters that once r…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Roman Ridge
South Yorkshire
A working bridleway that still follows the exact line of a Roman road, letting a walker retrace Ermine Street on foot rather than read about it on…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Roman
Roman Rig
South Yorkshire
A linear earthwork (a bank, ditch or mound shaped from soil rather than built in stone) running for miles north of Rotherham whose builders remain…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Roman Road, Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire
A hedge-lined green lane running for miles through open farmland turns out, on excavation, to be a working Roman road: one still walked as a public…
- Near Great Abington
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Roman Theatre, St Albans
Hertfordshire
A working stage where most Roman remains in Britain offer only an arena: proof that Verulamium supported genuine theatre, not just spectacle.
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Building or ruin · Roman
Roman Town House, Dorchester
Dorset
Dorchester’s Roman Town House is a rare scheduled domestic ruin where late Roman rooms, mosaics and town defences remain visible within a modern pu…
- Near Dorchester
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Romano-British site, Wickham Court Farm
Greater London
Wickham Court Farm is a scheduled Romano-British (Britain under Roman rule, AD 43–410) site beside the former London-to-Lewes route, where excavati…
- Near Winchester
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Sacred place · Medieval
Rosslyn Chapel
Midlothian
Rosslyn Chapel is a superbly carved fifteenth-century collegiate church (a church staffed by a college of priests, without being a monastery) whose…
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Rotherley Down Settlement
Wiltshire
A farming settlement lived on this hilltop for roughly four centuries, then Victorian archaeology's most methodical excavator carved his findings s…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Rothesay Castle
Argyll and Bute
A huge circular curtain wall, some 42 metres in diameter and originally around 7.9 metres high, still stands on a low mound above the town of Rothe…
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Round Loaf
Lancashire
Round Loaf is a nationally important, unexcavated burial mound dating from the late Stone Age or the period from about 2500 to 800 BC, whose large…
- Near Anglezarke
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Roman
Royal Citadel, Plymouth
Devon
Plymouth’s Royal Citadel is a major seventeenth-century fortress that incorporated Drake’s defences and continues as an active military base overlo…
- Near Plymouth
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Royal Observatory, Greenwich
Greater London
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich gave its name to Greenwich Mean Time and the prime meridian, making a hilltop scientific institution central to gl…
- Near Greenwich
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Sacred place · Medieval
Royston Cave
Hertfordshire
A bell-shaped chamber cut into solid chalk is covered floor to ceiling in medieval carvings found nowhere else in Britain, yet nobody has ever prov…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Rudchester Mithraeum
Northumberland
Rudchester’s lost Mithraic temple is known from five altars saved after a 1844 ploughing discovery, rare evidence for soldiers’ cult life beside Ha…
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Rudston Monolith
East Riding of Yorkshire
At over 25 feet, it is the tallest standing stone in Britain: and the Norman parish church beside it was built on already-sacred ground, not by coi…
- Near Beverley
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Building or ruin · Roman
Rudston Roman villa
East Riding of Yorkshire
Rudston’s courtyard villa preserves Roman domestic life through its mosaics and bathhouse, while its fragile archaeology is threatened by continuin…
- Near Beverley
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Sacred place · Medieval
Runston Chapel
Monmouthshire
The lone survivor of a vanished village: a Romanesque (the round-arched style that came before Gothic) chapel still standing above some twenty-five…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Ruther Cross
North Yorkshire
Ruther Cross preserves a small but protected trace of historic movement at the former meeting of Ruthergate and Hutton Lane in Guisborough.
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Rutland Roman villa
Rutland
A Roman-period villa near Ketton, including a mosaic showing scenes from the Trojan War.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Rye House, Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire
A single moulded-brick gatehouse is all that survives of a manor whose 1683 occupants stood accused of plotting to kill a king.
- Near St Albans
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Saddell Abbey
Argyll and Bute
On a bluff above the confluence of Saddell Water and Allt nam Manach: the Water of the Monks: stand the fragmentary remains of a Cistercian monaste…
- Near Carradale
- Easy path
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Ancient place · Medieval
Saltwells Local Nature Reserve
West Midlands
Beneath the bluebells and gorse of a Black Country nature reserve lie the buried workings of medieval coal miners and a spring once bottled as a cu…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
Sandbach Crosses
Cheshire
Sandbach’s paired ninth-century Anglo-Saxon crosses are an extraordinary public survival: carved with biblical scenes and interlace, dispersed afte…
- Near Chester
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Sarre Anglo-Saxon cemetery
Kent
Described after its 1863 excavation as arguably the richest Anglo-Saxon burial ground yet discovered, it was later found to be far larger than the…
- Near Sarre
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Saxtead Green Windmill
Suffolk
Raised three times during its working life, and rebuilt entirely between 1957 and 1960 using a crowntree salvaged from a demolished mill at Wetheri…
- Near Saxtead Green
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Scalloway Castle
Shetland Islands
Built by unpaid workers summoned from the parishes of Shetland, for an earl who was executed for misrule eight years after it was finished.
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Scholes Coppice
South Yorkshire
A double bank and ditch enclose a wooded hilltop above Rotherham with no obvious way in: an Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Scone Palace / Scone Abbey
Perth and Kinross
The crowning place of forty-two Kings of Scots and the site of Scotland's first parliament: now a Gothic Revival house with nothing left standing o…
- Near Perth
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Fortified place · Roman
Scot's Dyke
North Yorkshire
Each stretch of bank and ditch differs enough in height and width to show separate work-gangs dug it, not one planned scheme.
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Fortified place
Scoveston Fort
Pembrokeshire
The only fort ever built of the inland line that was to guard Milford Haven from a landward attack, laid out for 32 guns and 128 men and never give…
- Near Waterston
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Scraesdon Fort
Cornwall
Scraesdon Fort is a Grade II listed Palmerston fort built to defend Plymouth's naval base, preserving the scale and strategic anxieties of nineteen…
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Pinnacle Hill
Herefordshire
A summit on the Malvern ridge carrying two possible Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first spread) round barrows, burial mounds se…
- Near Colwall
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Point Clear Martello Tower
Essex
Point Clear’s Martello Tower is the earliest and most southerly east-coast example, transformed from a Napoleonic defence into a museum preserving…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Pomeroy Wood
Devon
Pomeroy Wood is a Roman military site near Honiton where excavated ramparts, ditches and biological evidence point to a cavalry presence despite un…
- Near Honiton
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Pons Aelius
Tyne and Wear
The only Roman bridge outside Rome known to be named after an emperor. Hadrian's clan name was Aelius.
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Poor Lot Barrow Cemetery
Dorset
Poor Lot Barrow Cemetery is an unusually large, low-lying Bronze Age (the period from about 2500 to 800 BC) burial landscape in Dorset, where forty…
- Near Winterbourne Abbas
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Porth Hellick Down
Cornwall
Porth Hellick Down contains the world’s largest surviving group of entrance graves, linking Neolithic burial monuments: from the closing Stone Age,…
- Near Penzance
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Pwll Fanog wreck
Gwynedd
Somewhere between twenty and forty thousand hand-worked slates settled over the hull that had been carrying them, pinning the wreck to the bed of t…
- Near Bangor
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Building or ruin · Roman
Pye Road
Suffolk
It ran from the Iceni capital at Venta Icenorum to the legionary base at Camulodunum: the A140 still follows part of it.
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Building or ruin · Roman
Roman road from Silchester to Bath
Berkshire
A Roman route linking Silchester with Bath whose line still appears in fragments, carrying later drovers and travellers long after imperial rule en…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Sarn Helen
Conwy County Borough
Sarn Helen is not a single monument but a name attached to several stretches of Roman road threading through Wales, the principal route running som…
- Near Conwy
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Sacred place · Medieval
Saul Monastery
County Down
Saul Monastery brings Saint Patrick tradition, Viking and medieval disruption, and a surviving Augustinian abbey (a self-governing monastery, its h…
- Near Downpatrick
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