Fortified place · Iron Age
Barbury Castle
Wiltshire
Two deep ditches and ramparts crown a downland vantage point where Roman-era buildings gave way to a Saxon conquest that helped found the kingdom o…
- Near Wroughton
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Barclodiad y Gawres
Isle of Anglesey
Barclodiad y Gawres is a Neolithic: the first farming period in Britain, roughly 4000–2500 BC: cruciform passage grave, a burial chamber entered al…
- Near Rhosneigr
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Bargate
Hampshire
A working medieval gatehouse that has served in turn as guildhall, prison, courtroom, police headquarters and gallery, still spanning Southampton's…
- Near Basingstoke
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Barkhale Camp
West Sussex
An enclosure of the first farming age on Bignor Hill, its banks broken by causeways, of a class built in England from a little before 3700 BC.
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Barnsley Park
Gloucestershire
A Roman villa lies buried beneath its parkland, and the Georgian house standing above has stayed in the same family's hands since 1935.
- Near Gloucester
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Barrow Clump
Wiltshire
A single surviving Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC) burial mound, reused six centuries later as an Anglo-Saxon cemetery, later excavated by soldier…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Bartlow Hills
Cambridgeshire
The tallest of its four surviving mounds rises some 15 metres: the largest Roman burial mound known north of the Alps.
- Near Bartlow
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Fortified place · Medieval
Bass of Inverurie
Aberdeenshire
A wooden castle mound that once governed the whole lordship of the Garioch, its earthworks still holding an oak gangway and a 14th-century face-jug…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Bath city walls
Somerset
Defences around the city, Roman in origin and restored by the Anglo-Saxons.
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Bath Gorgon
Somerset
A first-century pediment carved by Gaulish craftsmen, found in 1790, whose central head has been read three different ways and settled as none of t…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Batham Gate
Derbyshire
A Roman road whose true line has to be pieced together from a scheduled earthwork, a buried stone road-bed under a Sheffield field, and a single mi…
- Near Bakewell
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Battlegore Burial Chamber
Somerset
Three round mounds and possibly a long one at Williton, excavated by George Gray in 1931.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Bayard's Cove Fort
Devon
One of the few English blockhouses whose eleven gunports still face the water they were built to sweep, English Heritage has already named it among…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Bayle Museum
East Riding of Yorkshire
A single stone gatehouse carried a wooden castle, a priory's tolls and alms, a prison, a garrison and a town hall before becoming a museum of its o…
- Near Dunbar
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Baynard House, London
City of London
A brutalist telecoms tower standing directly over the buried remains of London's last riverside castle, and the rooftop where a Hollywood stunt fam…
- Near City of London
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Iron Age
Beacon Hill, West Sussex
West Sussex
A defended hilltop on the South Downs in the parish of Elsted and Treyford, known also as Harting Beacon.
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Beadlam Roman villa
North Yorkshire
Three sides of a Roman farm's courtyard still trace across a Yorkshire field, with one building's walls surviving in situ some seventeen centuries…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Bear Place
Berkshire
A Georgian house built partly from the bones of the Elizabethan mansion it replaced: its vanished predecessor still traced by the moat beside it.
- Near Wargrave
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Beaumaris town walls
Isle of Anglesey
Beaumaris town walls show how Edward I’s initially unwalled colonial town responded to Owain Glyndŵr’s 1403 capture: a 15th-century circuit of ditc…
- Near Beaumaris
- Easy path
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Beckhampton Avenue
Wiltshire
One stone still stands, called Adam. Excavation in 2000 recovered the rest of the avenue from below ground, as post-holes.
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Sacred place · Medieval
Bedale Market Cross
North Yorkshire
Bedale Market Cross anchors the town’s medieval market charter, street pattern and civic gathering place in a rare Grade I scheduled monument (desi…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Bedd Arthur
Pembrokeshire
Thirteen upright stones in a broken horseshoe on a Preseli ridge, with fallen stones and a faint bank and ditch completing the outline.
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Beeley Moor
Derbyshire
A square Bronze Age cairn holding cremated bone anchors this moor's scattered monuments: the same heather ground where a 1977 siege became one of B…
- Near Bakewell
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Belas Knap
Gloucestershire
Excavations here recovered the remains of more than forty people, added to four chambers across many generations behind a grand entrance that turns…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Belmont Hall, Cheshire
Cheshire
A Palladian house completed in 1755 to a design begun by James Gibbs but finished after his death by an unknown hand, its bow windows and Rococo ce…
- Near Great Budworth
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Fortified place · Medieval
Bembridge Fort
Isle of Wight
Bembridge Fort is a Palmerston-era command fort on the Isle of Wight, whose long military life spans invasion fears, submarine detection, air defen…
- Near Bembridge
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Benty Grange hlaew
Derbyshire
Its low mound in a Peak District field hid the first Anglo-Saxon helmet ever found: the one with a bronze boar glaring above a Christian cross.
- Near Bakewell
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Berry Ring
Staffordshire
A hillfort: a defended enclosure on high ground, ringed with banks and ditches: whose bank has almost gone but whose ditch is still eighteen metres…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Berth Hill
Staffordshire
Josiah Wedgwood II piped water off this hillfort, a defended hilltop settlement of the Iron Age, to his hall - damaging the inner rampart, a defens…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Bewcastle Roman Fort
Cumbria
An outpost fort built as an irregular hexagon rather than the usual playing-card shape, garrisoned to watch the ground north of Hadrian's Wall and…
- Near Brampton
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Roman
Biddlestone Chapel
Northumberland
Biddlestone Chapel is a rare Catholic chapel built into a thirteenth-century pele tower, where medieval defence, Gothic Revival worship, and wartim…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bigbury Camp
Kent
Bigbury Camp is east Kent’s only confirmed Iron Age (from about 800 BC until the Romans came) hillfort, a defended settlement on high ground, prese…
- Near Canterbury
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Building or ruin · Roman
Billingsgate Roman House and Baths
City of London
Coins from the late 4th century found here are rare direct evidence of a large Roman townhouse still standing as imperial rule in Britain collapsed.
- Near City of London
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Bincknoll Castle
Wiltshire
A single grassy promontory carries two unresolved stories at once: a disputed Iron Age (from about 800 BC until the Romans came) fort and the sturd…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Birdoswald Roman Fort (Banna)
Cumbria
Its granaries kept feeding a community for a century after Rome left Britain, the only stretch of the Wall where that continuity has been proven ar…
- Near Brampton
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Bishop's Palace, Llandaff
Cardiff
Its gatehouse echoes Caerphilly Castle so closely that the same master mason may have built both, tying a bishop's residence to Wales's greatest fo…
- Near Llandaff, Cardiff
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Bishop's Palace, Paignton
Devon
Paignton’s Bishop’s Palace preserves the bishops of Exeter’s medieval manorial centre, including walls, a fourteenth-century tower and chapel fragm…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Bishop's Waltham Palace
Hampshire
A Bishop of Winchester once hosted an emperor here to hammer out a European treaty, in a palace grand enough to entertain five English kings.
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Bixley medieval settlement
Norfolk
Bixley is one of East Anglia’s most extensive deserted medieval settlements, preserving earthworks that show how a small village near Norwich was o…
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Fortified place · Roman
Black Ditches, Cavenham
Suffolk
Four and a half miles of undated dyke running across the Suffolk breckland, from the Lark to the Icknield Way.
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Blackpatch
West Sussex
A Neolithic flint mine with Bronze Age barrows built over it: two thousand years of use on the same patch of down.
- Easy path
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Ancient place · Medieval
Blaenavon Ironworks
Torfaen
An ironworks whose struggle with cheap, high-sulphur ore pushed forward the technology of ironmaking.
- Near Blaenavon
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Blakeney Guildhall
Norfolk
Blakeney Guildhall preserves a rare fourteenth-century vaulted undercroft (the arched stone cellar beneath a building) near the quay, reflecting me…
- Near Blakeney
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Building or ruin · Roman
Blestium
Monmouthshire
Blestium beneath Monmouth combines one of Wales’s earliest Roman forts with a strategic Monnow-valley campaign base, later ironworking and evidence…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Blewburton Hill
Oxfordshire
Three distinct building phases and a violent final abandonment were followed, centuries later, by an early Anglo-Saxon cemetery dug straight into t…
- Near Blewbury
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Blick Mead
Wiltshire
A spring that never freezes drew hunter-gatherers to camp beside it for four thousand years, leaving the densest concentration of Mesolithic (the m…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Pictish & early medieval
Blowing Stone
Oxfordshire
A pierced boulder said to have summoned King Alfred's army before Ashdown - and to have lent Thomas Hughes a piece of Victorian schoolboy slang.
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Sacred place · Roman
Blue Man-i'-th'-Moss
North Yorkshire
A single weathered stone on open moorland still carries a painted name, a Victorian carving, and a boundary role that has outlived every explanatio…
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Bluestonehenge
Wiltshire
A stone circle stripped of its stones, this henge: a bank and ditch enclosing a circular space: on the River Avon appears to be the very source of…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Bodowyr
Isle of Anglesey
A passage-grave chamber of a form more common in Ireland than Wales, standing on flat ground with Snowdon and the Glyderau visible on the horizon.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Boghead (bastle)
Northumberland
Boghead is a rare, relatively unmodified border bastle (a fortified farmhouse of the Anglo-Scottish border, with livestock housed below) whose defe…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Bonawe Iron Furnace
Argyll and Bute
A charcoal-fired blast furnace that once employed 600 people to strip local woodland for fuel, shipping its pig iron south to Cumbria rather than f…
- Near Taynuilt
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Bondgate Tower
Northumberland
Bondgate Tower is Alnwick’s surviving medieval gateway, turning a town-wall project of the Percy earls into a working feature of the modern street.
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Bontnewydd Palaeolithic site
Denbighshire
The jaw and teeth of an eleven-year-old Neanderthal boy, found here, make this the only site in Britain with fossils of a classic Neanderthal.
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Boringdon Camp
Devon
Boringdon Camp is a scheduled bank-and-ditch monument above the Plym Valley, layered over an older ring ditch and dating from the period the centur…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Roman
Borough Hill
Northamptonshire
One of Britain's largest Iron Age hillforts lies beneath a working BBC transmitter mast: three thousand years of settlement crowned by shortwave br…
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Botley Stone
shropshire
Ordnance Survey maps show a burial mound here. What survives is a ring of stones around an open centre, raised on the parish boundary at 394 metres.
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Bourn Windmill
Cambridgeshire
Reckoned the oldest surviving windmill in the United Kingdom, it stood empty and rotting until a public appeal in 2022 raised the final funds neede…
- Near Bourn
- Easy path
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Ancient place · Medieval
Bowes Railway
Tyne and Wear
The world's only operational preserved standard-gauge cable railway, built by George Stephenson in 1826 to bring Durham coal down to the Tyne.
- Near Springwell
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Bowstones
Cheshire
A round cross-section and an unusual pairing set these two Anglian shafts apart from almost every other stone cross of their age in England.
- Near Disley
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Boxgrove Palaeolithic site
west-sussex
The thinnest handaxes known from the entire Acheulean were made here, 480,000 years ago, and wear analysis says they were used for one thing: butch…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Boxmoor Roman Villa
Hertfordshire
Five successive building phases traced beneath a school playing field, from a first-century timber house to a mosaic-floored stone villa with under…
- Near Hemel Hempstead
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Bradford-on-Avon Tithe Barn
Wiltshire
A 14th-century monastic barn still roofed in its original 100 tons of stone tiles, built to store one nun's abbey (a self-governing monastery, its…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Brading Roman Villa
Isle of Wight
Brading Roman Villa preserves a richly mosaicked Isle of Wight estate whose long occupation, fire recovery and rare imagery reveal high-status life…
- Near Brading
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Brampton Old Church
Cumbria
Its red walls were quarried straight out of Hadrian's Wall, and the fort beneath it stood on the Stanegate (the Roman road running behind Hadrian's…
- Near Brampton
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Brandon Camp
Herefordshire
A hilltop enclosure raised by Iron Age (from about 800 BC until the Romans came) Britons was later occupied and rebuilt by Rome, its granary, offic…
- Near Brampton Bryan
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Brane Barrow
Cornwall
Brane Barrow is a small, well-preserved Neolithic (the late Stone Age, about 4000–2500 BC in Britain) entrance grave whose exposed chamber makes th…
- Near Penzance
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Branodunum
Norfolk
Branodunum is a major Roman Saxon Shore fort at Brancaster, built in the 230s to guard the Wash and connected with a large civilian settlement in I…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Brantingham Roman villa
East Riding of Yorkshire
A stolen Roman mosaic, rumoured to have been flown to America the night after its theft, has never resurfaced: leaving this villa's finest floor kn…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Braughing (Roman town)
Hertfordshire
An unwalled Roman town of at least thirty-six hectares that grew simply because two major roads crossed here: commerce and traffic, not defence, dr…
- Near Hertford
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Settlement · Medieval
Breachacha crannog
Argyll and Bute
A drained loch bed south of Breachacha Castle on Coll still holds an artificial island whose stonework and mysterious dug pits have never been full…
- Near Arinagour
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Roman
Brean Down
Somerset
Marconi set a wireless distance record over open sea from here in 1897, and the bouncing bomb was tested off the fort in the war.
- Near Weston-super-Mare
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Brechin Cathedral
Angus
A near-millennium-old round tower and an intricately carved Viking-age hogback stand beside a Gothic cathedral, forming one of Scotland's most comp…
- Near Brechin
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Building or ruin · Roman
Bremenium
Northumberland
Bremenium is a Roman outpost far north of Hadrian’s Wall whose preserved earthworks reveal how Dere Street was defended through changing imperial f…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Bremetennacum
Lancashire
A cavalry fort on the Ribble whose garrison of Sarmatian horsemen from the Black Sea steppe left behind Roman Britain's most celebrated parade helmet.
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Bremia (fort)
Ceredigion
Five inscribed stones name the actual Spanish cohort and centurions who built and garrisoned this fort: rare direct testimony from the men themselv…
- Near Llanilar
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Fortified place · Pictish & early medieval
Brent Ditch
Cambridgeshire
A surviving stretch of a lost linear frontier, still standing 2 to 3 metres high in woodland beside the old A11 where four sister earthworks once c…
- Near Abington
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Brixham Battery
Devon
Brixham Battery is an unusually complete emergency coast-defence site, where the hurried response to Dunkirk remains legible in guns, searchlights…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Broadbury Castle
Devon
Broadbury Castle is a scheduled Devon earthwork (earth moved and shaped into banks and ditches rather than built up in stone) whose square plan sup…
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Broadsands Chambered Tomb
Devon
A Scheduled Neolithic chambered tomb above Broadsands Beach, preserving a burial chamber, cairn (a mound of piled stones, often covering a burial)…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Brocavum
Cumbria
Six altars to the war-god Belatucadrus were found here, and a Roman tombstone still forms a ceiling slab inside the medieval castle built from the…
- Near Brougham
- Some walking
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Ancient place
Brockham Limeworks
Surrey
A worked-out chalk quarry turned itself over twice: into a bat roost inside abandoned lime kilns, then briefly a working railway museum: before set…
- Near Brockham
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Building or ruin · Roman
Broughton Castle
Oxfordshire
Beneath a moated Tudor manor lies a high-status Roman villa with mosaic floors and heated rooms, found by a metal detectorist and excavated on tele…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Broughty Castle
Dundee City
Broughty Castle guards the mouth of the River Tay and shows five centuries of adaptation: a late-medieval tower house repeatedly reshaped for artil…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Brown Low
Greater Manchester
Brown Low is a protected Bronze Age (the period from about 2500 to 800 BC) bowl barrow, a burial mound from the prehistoric: a period before writte…
- Near Marple
- Some walking
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Building or ruin
Bryntail lead mine
powys
A complete nineteenth-century lead and barytes dressing floor left standing where the ore was worked, in a district that for one decade produced mo…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Banovallum
lincolnshire
A market town with a piece of Roman wall still standing in it, and a Roman name that may or may not belong to the place.
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Bant's Carn
Cornwall
A well-preserved Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking spread) entrance grave on St Mary's, excavated in 1900 and restored from the or…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Crossing or structure · Roman
Beaumont Cut
Essex
Beaumont Cut preserves a short-lived 19th-century canal over a possible Roman waterway, connecting rural Essex to London’s coastal trade and surviv…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin
Berney Arms Windmill
Norfolk
Berney Arms Windmill is Norfolk’s tallest drainage windmill, preserving an unusual industrial transition from cement grinding to marsh drainage in…
- Near Halvergate
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Building or ruin · Roman
Blue Bell Hill
Kent
Blue Bell Hill is a protected North Downs chalk landscape above the Medway where the lost Blue Bell Hill Dolmen, nearby Medway Megaliths and traces…
- Near Aylesford
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Sacred place · Medieval
Boa Island figures
County Fermanagh
The Boa Island figures are enigmatic damaged stone idols whose two-faced form, Christian graveyard setting and uncertain Iron Age (the period from…
- Near Kesh
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Building or ruin · Roman
Bokerley Dyke
Dorset
Bokerley Dyke is a long-lived Dorset boundary earthwork (a bank or ditch dug and heaped from the ground itself, with no masonry), first prehistoric…
- Near Woodyates
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Bonamargy Friary
County Antrim
Bonamargy Friary preserves a late Franciscan foundation where MacQuillan, MacDonnell, burial, legend and manuscript histories meet beside the Margy…
- Near Ballycastle
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Boswens Menhir
Cornwall
Boswens Menhir is a compact but distinctive Penwith standing stone, with a vestigial cairn (a mound of piled stones, often covering a burial) and c…
- Near Penzance
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Botallack Mine
Cornwall
Engine houses on the cliffs mark a Cornish mine whose workings extended beneath the Atlantic and later formed part of a World Heritage Site.
- Near Penzance
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Branny
County Tyrone
Branny is a compact Tyrone townland whose protected hilltop enclosure and sheep-fold name preserve both ancient and pastoral landscape history.
- Near Omagh
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Bridgeness Slab
Falkirk
The Bridgeness Slab is the most detailed surviving Antonine Wall distance slab, combining a precise construction record with vivid Roman imagery of…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Brig o' Doon
South Ayrshire
Sold as a quarry to the builders of its replacement, then bought back before they could take it apart.
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Brown Willy
Cornwall
Cornwall's highest hill carries two cairns whose early Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking spread) setting gives Bodmin Moor a prehi…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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