Fortified place · Iron Age
Scratchbury Camp
Wiltshire
A defended settlement on high ground, raised around 100 BC, encloses a smaller, far older bank-and-ditch enclosure that three separate excavation t…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Segontium
Gwynedd
Segontium was the main Roman fort of north Wales, a thousand-man auxiliary base above the Menai Strait whose settlement, Mithraic temple and later…
- Near Caernarfon
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Seton Collegiate Church
East Lothian
Seton Collegiate Church is an unusually legible unfinished late-medieval church, preserving its choir, transepts and tower alongside the absent nav…
- Near Dunbar
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Seven Barrows
Berkshire
A cemetery of Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first spread) burial mounds also shelters one of Berkshire's richest surviving frag…
- Near Upper Lambourn
- Easy path
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Ancient place · Roman
Shaftoe Crags Settlement
Northumberland
Shaftoe Crags preserves Iron Age, the period before Roman rule, enclosures and later Romano-British: a period when local people lived under Roman r…
- Rough ground
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Shearplace Hill Enclosure
Dorset
Shearplace Hill Enclosure is a scheduled Bronze Age (the period from about 2500 to 800 BC) farmstead where excavated round houses, trackways and do…
- Near Cerne Abbas
- Some walking
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Sheffield Lock
Berkshire
An early-18th-century canal lock still doing its original job, its scalloped brick chamber and paddle gearing protected as a scheduled monument (le…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Sheffield Manor Lodge
South Yorkshire
For nearly fifteen years this lodge and its neighbouring castle held Mary, Queen of Scots captive, making it one of the best-documented settings fo…
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Ancient place · Medieval
Shepherd Wheel
South Yorkshire
One of the last complete water-powered grinding workshops on the River Porter, still turning where dozens once ground Sheffield's blades.
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Shiaba
Argyll and Bute
A cleared crofting township on the Ross of Mull whose stone walls, kilns and mill remains survive well enough to trace the whole shift from run rig…
- Near Bunessan
- Rough ground
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Settlement · Iron Age
Shipton Hill Settlement
Dorset
Shipton Hill Settlement is a rare small Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) defended community, whose natural slopes, banks and dome…
- Near Shipton Gorge
- Some walking
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Sacred place
Shoreham Memorial Cross
Kent
Shoreham Memorial Cross is a near-unique chalk hillside war memorial created by a bereaved local father and village community in 1920, transforming…
- Near Shoreham
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Shotwick Hall
Cheshire
A 1662 brick manor whose Grade II* house, garden and nearby moat preserve the shift from a fortified home to a post-medieval (after about 1500) est…
- Near Chester
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Shrewsbury Barrow
Greater London
Shrewsbury Barrow is the sole survivor of a cluster of Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first spread) burial mounds once visible o…
- Near Winchester
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Shrub's Wood Long Barrow
Kent
English Heritage counts it among the finest surviving oval barrows in south-east England, yet as of 2007 no archaeologist had ever formally excavat…
- Near Chilham
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Silbury Hill
Wiltshire
At 39.3 metres it is the tallest prehistoric mound in Europe, built with a labour investment: some 18 million man-hours: that rivals an Egyptian py…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Sinai Park House
Staffordshire
Its name comes from the Old French for blood. Monks came here to convalesce after being bled.
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Six Hills
Hertfordshire
The largest surviving group of Roman burial mounds in England, standing where local legend blames the Devil for their creation.
- Near St Albans
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Fortified place · Medieval
Skipness Castle
Argyll and Bute
A working stronghold refortified across three centuries, ending its working life not by decay but under active siege in 1646: the last Scottish cas…
- Near Skipness
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Skirrid Fawr
Monmouthshire
A hill reputedly split by the Crucifixion drew Catholics to secret Mass at its ruined summit chapel for two centuries when that worship was outlawed.
- Near Abergavenny
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Slate Hill Settlement
Northumberland
Four concentric ramparts curve round the north and west of the enclosure; quarrying has taken the east side down to one.
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Settlement · Roman
Smedmore Hill Settlement
Dorset
Smedmore Hill preserves a rare, well-preserved Romano-British (Britain under Roman rule, AD 43–410) farming settlement, where terraced small enclos…
- Near Corfe Castle
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Smerby Castle
Argyll and Bute
Two separate bonds, in 1594 and 1597, show the family here signing not as MacDonald but as M'Connall: a rare direct trace of how Gaelic Kintyre act…
- Near Campbeltown
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Smithills Hall
Greater Manchester
Smithills Hall preserves one of north-west England’s oldest manor houses, where a medieval Radcliffe residence evolved through gentry, industrial a…
- Easy path
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Ancient place · Roman
Snailbeach new smeltmill
Shropshire
Reputedly the greatest volume of lead per acre in Europe: and a smeltmill of national importance now being destroyed by vegetation.
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
South Lodge Camp
Wiltshire
A century after Pitt Rivers first dug here, re-excavation overturned his own conclusions: hollows he took for natural features turned out to be Bro…
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
South Street barrow
Wiltshire
Excavation here found no burial at all, making this Wiltshire mound one of England's clearest Neolithic (the first farming period in Britain, rough…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
South Weald Camp
Essex
South Weald Camp is a rare east-of-England late Iron Age hillfort: a defended hilltop settlement from the centuries before Rome arrived: whose alte…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Sperris Quoit
Cornwall
Sperris Quoit is a scheduled, ruined Penwith burial chamber whose missing capstone and surviving cremation evidence record both prehistoric (before…
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Spinsters' Rock
Devon
Spinsters’ Rock is a striking Neolithic (the first farming period in Britain, roughly 4000–2500 BC) dolmen near Drewsteignton, whose restored grani…
- Near Drewsteignton
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Spitbank Fort
Hampshire
A Victorian island gun-fort built to catch any warship that slipped past its two larger neighbours in the Solent: now a scheduled monument (legally…
- Near Portsmouth
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Building or ruin · Roman
Spoonley Wood Roman Villa
Gloucestershire
Long cited as the textbook case of a Roman villa evolving from a simple corridor house into a full courtyard estate, though the dating evidence beh…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
St Andrew's Church, Penrith
Cumbria
Two Anglo-Saxon cross-shaft monuments in the churchyard, the Giant's Grave and the Giant's Thumb, predate the present Georgian church by eight cent…
- Near Carlisle
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
St Augustine's Conduit House
Kent
St Augustine’s Conduit House preserves the medieval water infrastructure that supplied a major Canterbury abbey (a religious community led by an ab…
- Near Canterbury
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
St Bartholomew's Church, Barrow
Cheshire
A Cheshire parish church rooted in a Knights Hospitaller preceptory, where medieval stonework, Georgian additions and Victorian restoration meet in…
- Near Great Barrow
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Bartholomew's Church, Penn
West Midlands
A round Anglo-Saxon churchyard and a broken preaching cross tied to Lady Godiva's husband sit beside a Victorian rebuild by the Lancaster firm of P…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
St Blane's Church
Argyll and Bute
Its identity was forged not by an ancient founding but by two centuries of Scottish church schism and reunion, condensed into a single Dunblane bui…
- Near Dunblane
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Building or ruin · Pictish & early medieval
St Botolph's Church, Ruxley
Greater London
St Botolph’s Church, Ruxley is a rare intact medieval church ruin that survived 400 years as a farm building, preserving its form within a modern g…
- Near Winchester
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Building or ruin · Medieval
St Brendan's Chapel, Skipness
Argyll and Bute
A roofless chapel far larger than any other in Kintyre, standing beside five carved late medieval tombstones in a graveyard still used today.
- Near Skipness
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Catherine's Chapel, Lydiate
Merseyside
St Catherine’s Chapel is a rare late-medieval private chapel, locally called Lydiate Abbey despite never being an abbey, with fabric and burials th…
- Near Lydiate
- Easy path
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Fortified place
St Catherine's Fort
Pembrokeshire
The only fort ever built of a chain meant to run from Tenby to Freshwater West, finished unarmed in 1870 and turned into a private house before its…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
St Catherine's Hill, Hampshire
Hampshire
A single chalk hilltop carries an Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) hillfort, a lost medieval chapel, a 17th-century turf maze, an…
- Near Winchester
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Chad's Church, Wybunbury
Cheshire
The surviving leaning tower of a repeatedly rebuilt Cheshire church, whose nineteenth-century rescue technique later informed work on the Leaning T…
- Near Wybunbury
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Christopher's Church, Pott Shrigley
Cheshire
Its churchyard preaching cross is a scheduled monument (a site protected by law for its archaeological importance) in its own right, and one of its…
- Near Pott Shrigley
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Columba's Chapel, Southend
Argyll and Bute
A ruined medieval chapel on the Kintyre coast whose carved grave slabs are the strongest surviving evidence of the community that once worshipped h…
- Near Southend
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
St Davids Bishop's Palace
Pembrokeshire
A fourteenth-century episcopal palace of extraordinary ambition, ruined not by war but by a bishop who sold the lead off its roof in 1536.
- Near St Davids
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
St Denis Church, East Hatley
Cambridgeshire
A redundant medieval church whose consecrated churchyard now doubles as a legally protected nature reserve, rescued from decay by a charity built s…
- Near East Hatley
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Edith's Church, Shocklach
Cheshire
The carved south entrance is the church's defining survival: three Norman orders, chevron and cable moulding, and weathered corbel heads (carved st…
- Near Chester
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Edward the Confessor's Church, Leek
Staffordshire
A church whose churchyard shows a double sunset at midsummer: an alignment calculated to predate Christianity in Britain.
- Near Leek
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
St Giles' Cathedral
City of Edinburgh
Its 1637 prayer-book riot lit the fuse for the National Covenant and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, earning St Giles' the title 'the Mother Church…
- Near Edinburgh
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Govan's Chapel
Pembrokeshire
A chapel of twenty feet by twelve built into the side of a limestone cliff at St Govan's Head.
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Gwenfaen's Well
Isle of Anglesey
A rare three-chambered drystone well house survives almost intact, still visited for a legend of curing mental illness with an offering of white qu…
- Near Bangor
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
St James' Chapel, Lindsey
Suffolk
Dissolved in 1545 and granted to Thomas Turner, who turned it into a barn. That is the reason a thirteenth-century chapel is still standing.
- Near Lindsey
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Sacred place · Medieval
St James' Church, Stirchley
Shropshire
A twelfth-century church encased in brick, extended for ironworkers in 1838, and holding a Norman chancel arch: at the eastern end, by the altar: t…
- Near Stirchley
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St John the Baptist's Church, Chester
Cheshire
In 973 six tributary kings are said to have rowed King Edgar up the Dee to hold court here: a church that was Chester's cathedral before it was eve…
- Near Chester
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
St John the Baptist's Church, Stanwick
North Yorkshire
A medieval parish church stands inside the ramparts of an Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) oppidum, its churchyard holding a 9th-…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
St John's, Monmouth
Monmouthshire
St John’s pairs an eighteenth-century Monmouth villa with a separately protected Coalbrookdale verandah and formal walled garden, a rare survival b…
- Near Monmouth
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Kenneth's Chapel
Argyll and Bute
Eight medieval cross slabs and a sixteenth-century high cross survive inside its walls, set within an island cemetery still used for burials today.
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Lawrence's Church, Over Peover
Cheshire
Its surviving medieval and seventeenth-century family chapels contain Mainwaring monuments, while a plaque and flag record General Patton's staff w…
- Near Over Peover
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
St Lythans burial chamber
Vale of Glamorgan
A single-chamber megalithic dolmen of about 4000 BC, once covered by a long earthen mound.
- Near St Lythans
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
St Machar's Cathedral
Aberdeen City
A working Church of Scotland kirk that still keeps William Wallace's quartered remains in its walls and a ceiling of 48 royal and episcopal coats o…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Martin's Chapel, Chisbury
Wiltshire
For three centuries the tithes from this small chapel supported a priory, a monastery headed by a prior, forty miles away in Southampton, even afte…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Martin's Church, Cwmyoy
Monmouthshire
A medieval parish church so distorted by ground movement that its tower, nave (the main western space where the congregation stood) and chancel (th…
- Near Abergavenny
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Pictish & early medieval
St Martin's Church, Waithe
Lincolnshire
A working Anglo-Saxon tower still stands at the centre of a church rescued from vandalism and bat guano and restored at a cost of nearly £350,000.
- Near Waithe
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Pictish & early medieval
St Martin's Church, Wareham
Dorset
St Martin’s Church is Dorset’s most complete Anglo-Saxon church, preserving early architecture, rare medieval wall paintings and later memorials wi…
- Near Wareham
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
St Mary le Port Church, Bristol
Bristol
A single medieval tower stands alone in a modern park, the only fragment left after a night of bombing reduced the rest of the church to rubble.
- Near Bristol
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
St Mary the Virgin Church, Caerau, Cardiff
Cardiff
A medieval church built directly on the ramparts of an Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC) hillfort (an upland enclosur…
- Near Caerau
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Mary's Abbey ruins, Bardsey Island
Gwynedd
A single ruined tower on a remote Welsh island once drew a king and, by tradition, held the graves of some 20,000 saints.
- Near Bangor
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Mary's Church, Acton
Cheshire
Its tower, raised around 1180, is the oldest in Cheshire, and its south aisle holds carved Romanesque (the round-arched style that came before Goth…
- Near Chester
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Mary's Church, Astbury
Cheshire
Astbury's church is unusually broad at the west end, with a detached tower and a south porch whose upper room may have served as a priest's treasury.
- Near Chester
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Mary's Church, Bruera
Cheshire
St Mary's Church, Bruera preserves Norman fabric within a much-altered rural church, alongside a scheduled churchyard sundial made from the remains…
- Near Bruera
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Mary's Church, Derwen
Denbighshire
A carved timber rood screen, the carved screen dividing the main body of a church from the space around the altar, has kept its loft intact, one of…
- Near Denbigh
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
St Mary's Church, Eastwell
Kent
St Mary’s, Eastwell is a protected church ruin whose 15th-century tower and 19th-century mortuary chapel survive after the nave (the main body of a…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
St Mary's Guildhall, Lincoln
Lincolnshire
St Mary’s Guildhall is a palatial Romanesque (the heavy round-arched architecture of the eleventh and twelfth centuries) domestic complex in Lincol…
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Michael's Church, Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog
Isle of Anglesey
Old St Michael’s is a rare unrestored late-medieval Anglesey church ruin, retaining chancel (the eastern end of the church, holding the altar) and…
- Near Gaerwen
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
St Michael's Church, Muncaster
Cumbria
A scheduled Anglo-Saxon high cross stands in the churchyard beside a Grade I church whose windows carry a rare medieval Doom scene and Victorian gl…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Michael's Church, Trelawnyd
Flintshire
A scheduled 14th-century preaching cross, carved with the Crucifixion, still stands in a churchyard rebuilt almost entirely within one decade of Vi…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Michael's Church, Whittington
Lancashire
A Victorian church tower rises from the earthworks of a vanished Norman castle, its sundial still standing on the summit of the original great eart…
- Near Lancaster
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
St Michael's Leper Hospital
Warwickshire
The last leper hospital left standing in England, its chapel and fifteenth-century Master's House surviving in scrubland north of Warwick.
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Medieval
St Moluag's Cathedral, Lismore
Argyll and Bute
The parish church swallowed a medieval cathedral whole in 1749, still wearing its doorways, piscina: the basin near an altar for rinsing communion…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
St Monans Windmill and Salt Pans
Fife
One of the few surviving structures from the East Neuk's vanished salt-panning industry, and today the site of a modern revival of the same craft n…
- Near St Andrews
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Nicholas Chapel, Chester
Cheshire
St Nicholas's Chapel survives as a rare record of changing urban use: medieval worship gave way to trade, theatre, concerts, cinema and a present-d…
- Near Chester
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
St Nicholas Church, Leicester
Leicestershire
Leicester's oldest continually used building, its Anglo-Saxon nave (the main western space where the congregation stood) built almost entirely from…
- Near Leicester
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Oswald's Church, Dean
Cumbria
A working parish church that has grown by addition for eight centuries: Norman nave (the main body of a church, where the congregation gathers), me…
- Near Carlisle
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Oswald's Church, Ravenstonedale
Cumbria
A Georgian church built almost entirely of box pews arranged like a college chapel, standing over the ruined covered walkway of a vanished Gilberti…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
St Oswald's Church, Winwick
Cheshire
St Oswald's Church, Winwick is a Grade I listed church whose medieval fabric, Anglo-Saxon cross fragment and later rebuilding preserve almost a mil…
- Near Winwick
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
St Pancras, Soper Lane
City of London
A wealthy City parish rebuilt its small church twice in the 1620s, only for the Great Fire to erase it entirely in a single night four decades later.
- Near City of London
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
St Patrick's Chapel, Heysham
Lancashire
The rock-cut tombs beside the ruin later reached a far wider audience than archaeology ever could, appearing on the cover of a Black Sabbath album,…
- Near Heysham
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
St Peter's Cave, Chepstow
Monmouthshire
Charcoal found deep inside may be the earliest trace of human habitation anywhere in the lower Wye valley, hidden in a cave most visitors will neve…
- Near Abergavenny
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Peter's Church, Dixton
Monmouthshire
St Peter’s, Dixton, preserves a church site recorded by about 735, medieval fabric and a flood-prone Wye setting, while remaining a Church of Engla…
- Near Monmouth
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Seahenge
Norfolk
Seahenge is a uniquely preserved early Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first spread) timber circle, built in 2049 BC, whose ritua…
- Near Holme-next-the-Sea
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Building or ruin · Roman
Segedunum
Tyne and Wear
Five places in the Roman empire were called Segedunum. Nobody agrees what the name means.
- Near Wallsend
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Shoeburyness Boom
Essex
The Shoeburyness Boom is the surviving trace of two 20th-century barriers across the Thames Estuary, showing how Britain defended London and shippi…
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Showery Tor
Cornwall
Showery Tor is a distinctive Bodmin Moor outcrop wrapped in a large artificial cairn (a mound of piled stones, often covering a burial), preserving…
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Silkstone glassworks
south-yorkshire
Abigail Pilmey, wife of the founder, was one of the signatories who successfully petitioned Parliament against the Glass Tax in 1696.
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Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Spong Hill
Norfolk
Spong Hill is the largest known Early Anglo-Saxon cremation cemetery, containing 2,259 cremations and 57 inhumations that reveal a regional burial…
- Near North Elmham
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Building or ruin
SS Beemsterdijk
Pembrokeshire
The wreck of the SS Beemsterdijk lies on the seabed of St George's Channel, off the west coast of Pembrokeshire, having sunk stern first on the mor…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
SS Castilian (1919)
Isle of Anglesey
A 500-metre exclusion zone in the Irish Sea, drawn under the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973, keeps divers away from a broken cargo steamer whose hol…
- Near Bangor
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Carved stone · Prehistoric
St Breock Downs Monolith
Cornwall
St Breock Downs Monolith is Cornwall's largest prehistoric menhir: a standing stone from before any written account of Britain existed: a re-erecte…
- Some walking
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