Building or ruin · Roman
Tripontium
Warwickshire
A Roman frontier post of AD 47 that grew into a town and was then lost for centuries, until an antiquarian: an early collector-scholar of antiquiti…
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Building or ruin
Twyford Waterworks
Hampshire
Three of only four surviving Babcock & Wilcox boilers in existence still stand here, alongside a working 1914 steam engine that once pumped Winches…
- Near Twyford
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Tŷ Newydd Burial Chamber
Isle of Anglesey
Excavation in 1935 found flint tools, a chip from a polished axe and Beaker pottery beneath the stones: evidence that Bronze Age (the period from a…
- Near Bangor
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Uffington White Horse
Oxfordshire
A hill figure 110 metres long, cut as deep trenches packed with crushed white chalk, older than the written record here.
- Near Uffington
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Uley Bury
Gloucestershire
Its double rampart (an encircling bank built for defence), terraced for over a mile around a 13-hectare hilltop, ranks it among the largest and bes…
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Uley Long Barrow
Gloucestershire
A five-thousand-year-old gallery grave that drew burials on and off for millennia: Neolithic (the closing Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) dead, a…
- Near Gloucester
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Updown early medieval cemetery
Kent
Updown is a large seventh-century cemetery near the Kentish royal centre of Eastry, revealing Christian burial practice and long-distance ancestral…
- Near Eastry
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Upminster Tithe Barn
Greater London
Known as Upminster Tithe Barn but more accurately a medieval grange barn, this timber-framed agricultural building preserves Waltham Abbey’s 15th-c…
- Near Upminster
- Easy path
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Ancient place · Medieval
Upthorpe Mill, Stanton
Suffolk
Painted grey during the war so it would not serve as a landmark for aircraft: RAF Shepherds Grove was close by.
- Near Stanton
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Ancient place · Medieval
Upton Cressett medieval settlement
Shropshire
A deserted medieval village beside the surviving hamlet of Upton Cressett.
- Near Upton Cressett
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Urishay Castle Chapel
Herefordshire
Raised in the bailey of a Herefordshire castle in the early 12th century, it is likely the county's earliest purpose-built castle chapel: and still…
- Near Peterchurch
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Urquhart Castle
Highland
Blown up in 1692 to deny it to Jacobite forces, its shattered gatehouse and leaning tower still mark almost four centuries of siege along the Great…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Uxacona
Shropshire
A Romano-British settlement: Britain under Roman rule, AD 43–410: at the highest point of Watling Street, known from cropmarks and a stretch of ditch.
- Near Telford
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Building or ruin · Roman
Venta Belgarum
Hampshire
At 58 hectares within its walls, this was one of the largest towns in Roman Britain: and the direct ancestor of modern Winchester.
- Near Winchester
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Venta Icenorum
Norfolk
Venta Icenorum was the Roman civitas capital of the Iceni, a deliberately created second-century administrative and trading town whose 2009 excavat…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Verterae
Cumbria
A single ridge above Swindale Beck carries two forts stacked on top of each other: a Roman garrison abandoned around 410 and, six centuries later,…
- Near Carlisle
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Verulamium
Hertfordshire
Sacked and burnt by Boudica in AD 61, rebuilt in stone twice over, its theatre survives as Britain's only fully excavated Roman stage theatre.
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Ancient place · Iron Age
Vespasian's Camp
Wiltshire
Long before Stonehenge's stones went up, this hillside was already a gathering place: flint tools dug up here in 2010 were called ‘the most importa…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Vindobala
Northumberland
Vindobala’s cavalry-focused plan, rebuilt after fire and divided by the modern Military Road, makes buried Roman frontier strategy visible in an op…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Vindolanda
Northumberland
A Roman auxiliary fort south of Hadrian's Wall which it pre-dated, and one of the most heavily excavated sites on the frontier.
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Vindomora
County Durham
A whole English village grew directly on top of a Roman fort's footprint, so altars and rampart (a defensive embankment ringing the site) stone sti…
- Near Ebchester
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Building or ruin · Roman
Viroconium Cornoviorum
Shropshire
A Roman city at Wroxeter, once probably Britain's fourth-largest Roman settlement.
- Easy path
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Ancient place · Iron Age
Walton Common
Somerset
Walton Common layers a late Iron Age (from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest) banjo enclosure and Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC) barrows ove…
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Warren Hill, Bournemouth
Dorset
Warren Hill is the elevated heart of Hengistbury Head, where rich Stone Age archaeology and a protected heathland habitat meet expansive coastal vi…
- Near Christchurch
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Washing Wells Roman Fort
Tyne and Wear
A Roman fort known almost entirely from one aerial photograph taken in 1970, never excavated, and already on the Heritage at Risk Register.
- Near Whickham
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Fortified place · Medieval
Wat's Dyke
Wrexham
A second great frontier earthwork running alongside Offa's Dyke, judged the more sophisticated of the two: now mostly a hedge line and a cropmark.
- Some walking
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Ancient place · Medieval
Waterden medieval settlement
Norfolk
Waterden is a scheduled deserted medieval village whose tax records trace decline without a decisive Black Death shock, while streets, green, homes…
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Waulud's Bank
Bedfordshire
Its curved bank and outer ditch so closely mirror the much larger Marden Henge in Wiltshire that the two river-edge sites may share a single Neolit…
- Near Luton
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Wayland's Smithy
Oxfordshire
A timber tomb was dismantled and rebuilt in stone within perhaps fifty years, capturing a Neolithic (the closing Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) c…
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Welbeck Hill
Lincolnshire
One grave held grave goods rivalling Sutton Hoo in craftsmanship: a runic silver bracteate, cruciform brooches, and cushion covers sewn with matchi…
- Near Lincoln
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Wellbrook Beetling Mill
County Tyrone
Wellbrook Beetling Mill is the UK’s last publicly accessible working beetling mill, preserving water-powered linen finishing on the Ballinderry River.
- Near Cookstown
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Building or ruin · Roman
Welwyn Roman Baths
Hertfordshire
A working Roman bath suite survives intact in a steel vault beneath a live motorway junction, its hypocaust and plunge bath reached by tunnel nine…
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Wenallt Camp
Cardiff
A modest earthwork enclosure: a mound or ditch formed by moving soil, not by building: on a wooded Cardiff hillside, its bank and ditch and a level…
- Near Rhiwbina
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Werthyr standing stone
Isle of Anglesey
The Werthyr standing stone west of Amlwch stands 3.1 metres high; reports of a second upright and capstone preserve a fragmentary record of a once…
- Near Amlwch
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
West Kennet Long Barrow
Wiltshire
Its chamber's roof stands tall enough to walk upright in, a rarity among Neolithic (the closing Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) tombs, and it held…
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
West Lanyon Quoit
Cornwall
West Lanyon Quoit is a scheduled fragment of a prehistoric portal tomb: a tomb from from the era before writing arrived in these islands where upri…
- Near Penzance
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Medieval
West Tarr Mediaeval House
Pembrokeshire
A small vaulted medieval house south of St Florence that four separate authorities classify four different ways: including one that says it was nev…
- Near St Florence
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Fortified place · Medieval
Westgate, Canterbury
Kent
Westgate condenses Canterbury’s Roman approach, medieval fear of invasion and four centuries of imprisonment into the largest surviving city gate i…
- Near Canterbury
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Wharram Percy
North Yorkshire
A whole medieval village vanished here, leaving only a roofless church and grass-grown house platforms: the excavation that first taught archaeolog…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Whimpton Village
Nottinghamshire
Walkable earthworks preserve the street, house plots and moated homestead of a Domesday settlement that vanished so completely it was recorded as a…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
White Barrow
Wiltshire
In 1909 it became the first piece of land the National Trust ever bought purely to protect an archaeological site, setting a precedent still follow…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Whitehawk Camp
East Sussex
Whitehawk Camp is one of Britain’s earliest confirmed causewayed enclosures, preserving evidence of late Stone Age gathering, deposition and constr…
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Minor monument · Prehistoric
Whiteleaf Cross
Buckinghamshire
A vast chalk cross cut into a Buckinghamshire hillside whose age and purpose have never been established: one of England's few hill figures with no…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Whitewell Ruins
Pembrokeshire
Three ruined medieval structures on the edge of Penally, all Grade I listed, all scheduled, and all now surrounded by a caravan park.
- Near Penally
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Building or ruin · Roman
Whitley Castle
Northumberland
Whitley Castle’s lozenge plan and exceptional concentric defences make its purpose as a high-Pennine Roman mining fort unusually legible today.
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Iron Age
Whitsbury Castle
Hampshire
A private manor house now sits inside earthworks reused across six millennia by hunters, herders, settlers and Anglo-Saxon refortifiers, all of who…
- Near Winchester
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Building or ruin · Roman
Wicklewood Roman Temple
Norfolk
Its cella walls still bear traces of Roman paint and mosaic beneath the soil, a rare survival of a Romano-Celtic shrine serving a community rooted…
- Near Wymondham
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Wilbury Hill Camp
Hertfordshire
Its earthwork rings have vanished from the ground entirely, surviving only as ghostly cropmarks in aerial photographs: one link in a chain of six m…
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Building or ruin · Pictish & early medieval
Winchester Palace
Greater London
Winchester Palace’s surviving hall and rose window recall a powerful bishop’s London residence on the Thames, where royal visitors, river supply, t…
- Near Winchester
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Wincobank (hill fort)
South Yorkshire
Its rampart timbers were found vitrified: burned with such intensity that the stone facings fused, evidence archaeologists read as a trace of real…
- Some walking
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Windmill Hill, Avebury
Wiltshire
At 21 acres it is the largest known Neolithic (the first farming age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) causewayed enclosure (a Neolithic enclosure whose ditch…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Winkelbury Camp
Wiltshire
Its ramparts were never built to one plan: three incomplete, irregular phases of construction, probably raised by separate work gangs, show a fort…
- Some walking
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Settlement · Medieval
Winterborne Farringdon
Dorset
Winterborne Farringdon is a deserted medieval village whose platforms, enclosures, tracks, lynchets and church remnant preserve the footprint of a…
- Near Dorchester
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Winterton Roman villa
Lincolnshire
Systematic excavation between 1958 and 1967 turned this into one of the most completely documented Roman villa sites in England, with five mosaic f…
- Near Winterton
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Building or ruin · Roman
Woldgate
East Riding of Yorkshire
A minor country lane in the East Riding still follows the exact line the Romans laid between the coast and York: and became one of David Hockney's…
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Wolverhampton Pillar
West Midlands
Seven bands of vine scroll, animal and acanthus carving make this the only known English cross shaft worked in a rare southern continental Baroque…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Woodbury Hill
Worcestershire
An Iron Age hillfort (an upland enclosure defended by earthen banks) where two armies faced off in 1405 and Glyndŵr's Welsh and French forces withd…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Woodbury Hill, Dorset
Dorset
Woodbury Hill combines an Iron Age hillfort: a defended hilltop settlement dating from from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest: with a medieval…
- Near Bere Regis
- Some walking
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Settlement · Iron Age
Woodcutts Settlement
Dorset
Woodcutts Settlement is a classic Pitt Rivers excavation, revealing how a small farmstead on Cranborne Chase changed across three Roman-period phas…
- Near Woodcutts
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Woodhenge
Wiltshire
The timber rings share Stonehenge's scale and midsummer alignment almost exactly, evidence that wood, not just stone, could carry serious ceremonia…
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Prehistoric
Woodhey Cross
Cheshire
Woodhey Cross is a rare surviving late-medieval stepped cross that remains in its original Cheshire roadside position, preserving a small but subst…
- Near Woodhey Green
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Woolbury
Hampshire
Its southern rampart carries a crude flint-and-chalk horse, the only hill figure of its kind in Hampshire, cut into a hilltop enclosure still guard…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Wor Barrow
Dorset
Wor Barrow records an Early–Middle Neolithic mortuary monument and a landmark full excavation by Augustus Pitt Rivers, whose detailed results resha…
- Near Sixpenny Handley
- Some walking
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Ancient place · Medieval
Wortley Top Forge
South Yorkshire
Only ever powered by water. All three of its waterwheels have been restored to working order.
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Wrynose Pass
Cumbria
A single-track road over Wrynose Pass runs on top of a Roman crossing of the fells, and its summit stone still marks the ancient meeting point of t…
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Wycoller Hall
Lancashire
Wycoller Hall is a Grade II* listed manor-house ruin whose Cunliffe family history, nineteenth-century dismantling and later conservation preserve…
- Near Lancaster
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Wymondley Roman Villa
Hertfordshire
Long assumed a Roman villa, the excavated rooms above the Purwell wetlands may in fact be a bathhouse within a complex of ritual buildings, one of…
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Fortified place · Roman
Y Gaer
Powys
A cavalry fort held for three centuries by Spanish horsemen, quarried in 1093 to build Brecon Castle: and still standing three metres high in places.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Yarnbury Castle
Wiltshire
Traces of some 130 dwellings and nine infant burials in its ditches mark this out as one of Wessex's most intensively lived-in hillforts: yet it su…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
York Minster
North Yorkshire
Built in stages between 1220 and 1472, it is the largest cathedral completed anywhere during the Gothic period, its east window alone holding the l…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Yr Hen Gapel, Llanybri
Carmarthenshire
Believed to be the only Welsh church ever converted from Anglican to non-conformist worship: a reversal contemporaries themselves called remarkable.
- Near Llanybri
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Trevelgue Head
Cornwall
Trevelgue Head is an Iron Age promontory fort: a coastal spur defended by banks thrown across its neck, the period from roughly 800 BC to the Roman…
- Near Newquay
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Tullyhogue Fort
County Tyrone
Tullyhogue Fort was the O’Neill inauguration site, where ceremonial guardians and the Leac na Rí embodied the political sovereignty of Tyrone.
- Near Cookstown
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Ty Mawr Burial Chamber
Isle of Anglesey
Ty Mawr is a collapsed Neolithic passage grave: a tomb reached by a stone-lined passage from the late Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC in Britain: w…
- Near Llanfairpwllgwyngyll
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Urney Glebe
County Tyrone
Urney Glebe is a small Tyrone townland where a protected ecclesiastical site and carved cross slab preserve an early sacred landscape.
- Near Omagh
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Building or ruin · Roman
Waddon Hill
Dorset
Waddon Hill is a short-lived Roman fort whose archaeology now reveals earlier Iron Age (from about 800 BC until the Romans came) activity beneath a…
- Near Stoke Abbott
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Wallace Monument
Stirling
Garibaldi helped pay for it. A statue of Wallace with Mel Gibson's face stood at the foot of the crag until the public loathing became unmanageable.
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Warbstow Bury
Cornwall
Warbstow Bury is one of Cornwall's largest Iron Age (from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest) earthworks, with double ramparts, deep ditches an…
- Near Launceston
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Watling Temple
Kent
Watling Temple is a reconstructed Roman sacred site within a newly discovered Newington manufacturing settlement whose archaeology reaches back to…
- Near Newington
- Easy path
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Ancient place · Pictish & early medieval
West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village
Suffolk
An archaeological site and open-air museum with traces of habitation from the first farmers onward.
- Near West Stow
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
White Horse Stone
Kent
The White Horse Stone is a scheduled Blue Bell Hill sarsen with possible Neolithic (the closing Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) roots, later folkl…
- Near Blue Bell Hill
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Building or ruin · Medieval
White House, County Down
County Down
The White House is a protected seventeenth-century Ards Peninsula dwelling, tied to the Savage family’s division of Ballygalget, Kirkistown, and Ba…
- Near Downpatrick
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
White Island, County Fermanagh
County Fermanagh
White Island preserves an early medieval: roughly AD 400–1100, between the Romans and the Normans: Lough Erne church whose Romanesque: the round-ar…
- Near Kesh
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Building or ruin · Roman
York city walls
North Yorkshire
York’s city walls trace nearly two millennia of defence, from Roman Eboracum to medieval bars and a living circuit shaped by later restoration.
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Zennor Quoit
Cornwall
Zennor Quoit is one of West Penwith's best-preserved prehistoric (before any written account of Britain existed) burial chambers, retaining a huge…
- Near Zennor
- Rough ground
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