Building or ruin · Medieval
Fritchley Tunnel
Derbyshire
Believed to be the oldest surviving railway tunnel in the world, its stonework still carries the soot, tool-marks and sleeper-scars of the horse-dr…
- Near Bakewell
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Fulham Palace
Greater London
Fulham Palace records more than a millennium of London bishops’ stewardship, combining medieval palace fabric, England’s largest domestic moat and…
- Near Fulham
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Funzie Girt
Shetland Islands
A stone wall over four kilometres long once ran the full north-south length of Fetlar, splitting the Shetland island into two almost equal halves.…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Gadebridge Park Roman Villa
Hertfordshire
A farmer's field near Hemel Hempstead once held the second-largest swimming pool in Roman Britain: outdone only by the great baths at Bath.
- Near Hertford
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Garway Dovecote
herefordshire
A circular Knights Hospitaller dovecote of 1326 with nineteen rows of nesting boxes, rebuilt on a Templar original and called by some the finest me…
- Near Hereford
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Gautries Rake
Derbyshire
Scheduled in 2013, the rake preserves an intact surface record of a lead vein worked as a single open trench rather than through scattered shafts a…
- Near Bakewell
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Building or ruin · Roman
Gayton Thorpe Roman Villa
Norfolk
Gayton Thorpe Roman Villa is a scheduled Norfolk villa complex, where mosaics, heated rooms and detached bathhouses reveal a substantial rural esta…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Giant's Castle, Isles of Scilly
Cornwall
Giant's Castle uses sea cliffs and a triple line of earthworks to defend a small Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) promontory on S…
- Near Penzance
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Gib Hill
Derbyshire
Two burial monuments share one mound: a late Stone Age oval mound, dating roughly 4000–2500 BC in Britain, and a later round mound from roughly 250…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Gidlow Hall
Greater Manchester
Gidlow Hall preserves the moated, partially surviving home of an Aspull family recorded from the 13th century, with visible fabric from its 1574 re…
- Near Aspull
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Minor monument · Medieval
Giggleswick Market Cross
North Yorkshire
Giggleswick Market Cross preserves the village’s late-medieval market status and, through later relocation and competing local traditions, captures…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Glasgow Cathedral
Glasgow City
One of only two medieval Scottish cathedrals: alongside St Magnus in Orkney: to survive the Reformation (the sixteenth-century suppression of monas…
- Near Gloucester
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Sacred place · Medieval
Glenluce Abbey
Dumfries and Galloway
Glenluce Abbey preserves a Cistercian foundation in Galloway whose post-Reformation (the sixteenth-century closure of the monasteries) seizure, Ken…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Glevum
Gloucestershire
One of only a handful of coloniae in Roman Britain, and the likely provincial capital of Britannia Secunda: a rank Glevum shared only with York and…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Globe Theatre
Greater London
The playhouse built from another theatre stolen beam by beam over Christmas 1598: and found again under a Southwark car park in 1989.
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Fortified place · Pictish & early medieval
God's House Tower
Hampshire
One of England's earliest purpose-built cannon forts survives here fused onto a medieval town gate, its gunports still facing the water it was rais…
- Near Winchester
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Goonhilly Downs
Cornwall
Goonhilly Downs combines protected serpentinite heath with one of Britain's defining satellite-station landscapes, showing scientific infrastructur…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Gosforth Cross
Cumbria
A single carved stone shows a Christian crucifixion and Norse gods sharing the same four faces, caught mid-way between two belief systems rather th…
- Near Gosforth
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Gough's Cave
Somerset
A long cave in Cheddar Gorge with large chambers, an underground river and evidence of very early occupation.
- Near Cheddar
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Grace Dieu (ship)
Hampshire
Timbers of Henry V's flagship still lie in the River Hamble mud: one of the largest wooden ships ever built in medieval England, rediscovered by ac…
- Near Winchester
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Sacred place · Medieval
Grace Dieu Abbey, Monmouth
Monmouthshire
Grace Dieu was the last Cistercian foundation in Wales: a poor, repeatedly displaced abbey (a monastery headed by an abbot) whose attacks, royal ti…
- Near Dingestow
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Great Coxwell Barn
Oxfordshire
A working monastic barn from the 1290s survives almost complete, its timber roof still resting on the same pairs of posts a Cistercian granger once…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Great Langdale
Cumbria
The scree below Pike of Stickle supplied a type of polished stone axe traded as far as Orkney and Cornwall, making this valley a working hub of Neo…
- Near Ambleside
- Rough ground
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Settlement · Medieval
Great Manson Farm, Monmouth
Monmouthshire
Great Manson Farm is an active sheep farm whose three listed buildings preserve a late-medieval hall adapted as a barn, an eighteenth-century farmh…
- Near Monmouth
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Great Wilbraham causewayed enclosure
Cambridgeshire
Two ditches drawn as near-perfect circles, a rare geometric variant among Britain's causewayed enclosures, laid out beside a Cambridgeshire fen som…
- Near Great Wilbraham
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Building or ruin · Roman
Great Witcombe Roman Villa
Gloucestershire
Excavated, admired, then largely destroyed by rain and poor conservation within decades: its bath house mosaic and shrine room still survive to rew…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
Greensted Church
Essex
Greensted Church retains rare oak-wall construction from the late Anglo-Saxon or early Norman period, making it an exceptional survivor in debates…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Grey Ditch
Derbyshire
A rare dated boundary earthwork (banks and ditches raised from the earth rather than quarried stone) of the post-Roman centuries, cut across the ol…
- Near Bakewell
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Building or ruin · Roman
Greyhound Yard
Dorset
Greyhound Yard preserves evidence of a late Stone Age timber henge: a prehistoric earthwork of bank and ditch enclosing a circular space, with the…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Grime's Graves
Norfolk
Grime’s Graves is Britain’s largest known Neolithic (the closing Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) flint-mining complex, with at least 433 shafts th…
- Near Weeting
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Grimspound
Devon
Grimspound is a scheduled late Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first spread) Dartmoor settlement whose hut circles, enclosing wal…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Grovely Castle
Wiltshire
Five human skeletons were found inside its banks, and a circular enclosure shows within it on aerial photographs.
- Near Little Langford
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Guildhall, London
City of London
The City of London's medieval civic heart, built over Britain's largest Roman amphitheatre and still used for ceremony, administration and public m…
- Near London
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Gun's Mills, Flaxley
Gloucestershire
A working blast furnace of the 1620s survives here complete with its original lining and covered charging platform, called by specialists the oldes…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Gybson's Conduit
Norfolk
Gybson’s Conduit is a scheduled Early Renaissance water monument in Norwich, showing how Robert Gybson turned a public spring into a display of civ…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Gylen Castle
Argyll and Bute
A tower house burnt in a single 1647 siege and left roofless for nearly 360 years, until a worldwide clan fundraising effort helped bring the ruin…
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Roman
Habitancum
Northumberland
Habitancum is a repeatedly rebuilt Roman fort on Dere Street, whose surviving ditches and settlement traces record centuries of frontier instabilit…
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Hackpen, Warren & Gramp's Hill Downs
Oxfordshire
Seventy-one hectares of protected biological downland at Letcombe Bassett.
- Near Letcombe Bassett
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Roman
Hadrian's Wall
Northumberland
Hadrian’s Wall was Rome’s most monumental frontier in Britain: a 73-mile system of walls, forts, milecastles, turrets, and controlled gates that re…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Hafotty
gwynedd
A mid-fourteenth-century hall house on Anglesey, first built in timber and re-cased in stone, still in Bulkeley hands after five centuries and carr…
- Near Llanddona
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Minor monument · Medieval
Hale Duck Decoy
Cheshire
One of England's few surviving duck decoys still holding its original form: five pipes radiating from a central pond in a pentagon shape used to tr…
- Near Chester
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Halton Cross
Lancashire
A dismantled Anglo-Saxon cross reused as a sundial for two centuries, its surviving shaft carries what one archaeologist called the clearest carved…
- Near Lancaster
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Ham Hill, Somerset
Somerset
A 210-acre hillfort taken by the future emperor Vespasian around AD 45: and quarried ever since for the stone that bears its name.
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Hangman's Wood and Deneholes
Essex
Hangman’s Wood combines ancient oak woodland, more than seventy former chalk- and flint-mining shafts and Essex’s most important underground bat hi…
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Roman
Hardknott Pass
Cumbria
A Roman military road laid down around AD 110 still runs beneath a modern tarmac lane so steep it shares the title of England's toughest climb.
- Near Eskdale
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Roman
Hardknott Roman Fort
Cumbria
Hardknott’s dramatic mountain setting preserves an unusually complete Roman garrison, whose parade ground, workshops and rebuilt walls show how the…
- Near Eskdale
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Hardwell Castle
Oxfordshire
A pair of concentric banks and ditches folded into a hidden curve of the scarp rather than set to command it, seemingly built to be missed, not seen.
- Near Uffington
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Harlowbury
Essex
Harlowbury brings together an abbey (a monastic house under the rule of an abbot)-founded manor, Harlow’s oldest standing building and a wider arch…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Harold's Stones
monmouthshire
Three puddingstone monoliths in a row eleven metres long, raised in the Bronze Age: the era of metalworking from about 2500 to 800 BC: and aligned…
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Harrow Hill, West Sussex
West Sussex
A flint mine of the Neolithic, the late Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC in Britain, of some 245 shafts, one of them proved 6.7 metres deep with six…
- Near Angmering
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Haverfordwest Priory
Pembrokeshire
A religious house on the banks of the Western Cleddau, its setting shaped by the river.
- Near Haverfordwest
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Hawk Stone
Oxfordshire
A Neolithic (the first farming period in Britain, roughly 4000–2500 BC) monolith whose polished hollow records centuries of hopeful hands, and whos…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Hawkesdown Hill
Devon
Hawkesdown Hill is a scheduled Iron Age hillfort: a settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground: above the Axe Estuary, whose surviving…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hawridge Court ringwork
Buckinghamshire
One of only around 200 surviving ringworks in Britain, its oval bank and ditch still rise almost to their original height, entrance causeway intact.
- Near Hawridge
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Hazleton long barrows
Gloucestershire
Genetic analysis of its dead reconstructed one of the earliest known family trees from a population living before written records reached Britain,…
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Heaning Wood Bone Cave
Cumbria
A tiny girl buried here roughly 11,000 years ago is among the oldest human burials yet identified in northern England, pushing the region's story b…
- Near Kendal
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Heath Wood barrow cemetery
Derbyshire
Fifty-nine mounds in a Derbyshire wood mark the only known Scandinavian cremation cemetery in the British Isles, raised by the Viking Great Army it…
- Near Bakewell
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Heathery Burn Cave
County Durham
A single cave near Stanhope yielded over two hundred Late Bronze Age objects: gold, bronze, bone and pottery together: among the richest hoards of…
- Near Stanhope
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Hell Stone
Dorset
Hell Stone is a Neolithic (the first farming period in Britain, roughly 4000–2500 BC) chambered tomb whose visible arrangement is shaped as much by…
- Near Portesham
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Hembury
Devon
Hembury is a rare Devon site with occupation spanning a Neolithic causewayed enclosure, an Iron Age hillfort: a defended hilltop settlement of the…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hen Gwrt Moated Site
Monmouthshire
A moat built with no defensive purpose at all now guards nothing but empty grass: every trace of the bishops' manor and the Herberts' hunting lodge…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Henblas Burial Chamber
Isle of Anglesey
Henblas Burial Chamber is a Neolithic (the closing Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) dolmen whose unusually massive quartz-rich uprights and displac…
- Near Llangristiolus
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Hereford Cathedral
Herefordshire
Its library holds the largest surviving collection of chained books in the world, alongside the Mappa Mundi, a circa-1300 map of the known world dr…
- Near Hereford
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Heronbridge Roman Site
Cheshire
Beneath a quiet Cheshire field lie a Roman quayside, a mass grave possibly tied to a 7th-century battle, and an earthwork (banks and ditches raised…
- Near Chester
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hethpool House
Northumberland
Hethpool House combines an Edwardian country house on Admiral Lord Collingwood’s former seat with the remains of a fourteenth-century pele tower in…
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Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Heysham rock-cut tombs
Lancashire
Eight graves cut straight into the bedrock, some shaped to the human body and fitted with sockets for stone or wooden crosses: a form of burial fou…
- Near Lancaster
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Building or ruin · Roman
High Dyke (road)
Lincolnshire
A modern B-road that still runs, mile after mile, along the exact line Roman surveyors cut through Lincolnshire two thousand years ago, past the Ro…
- Near Ancaster
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
High Street (Lake District)
Cumbria
A 828-metre fell in the Lake District carries a Roman road along its very summit, sunk in a hollow rather than raised on a bank, still puzzling arc…
- Near Kendal
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Hob Hurst's House
Derbyshire
Almost every burial mound in Britain from the Bronze Age, the period from about 2500 to 800 BC, is round; this one on Beeley Moor is rectangular, a…
- Near Bakewell
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Hobson's Conduit
Cambridgeshire
A working four-way water-splitting system engineered in 1610 still carries chalk-spring water through open street gutters past Cambridge's oldest c…
- Near Cambridge
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Holford Hall
Cheshire
Holford Hall is a rare surviving fragment of a richly decorated 1601 timber-framed manor, still standing within its moated setting beside the separ…
- Near Plumley
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Freughlough
County Tyrone
Freughlough’s Scheduled standing stone survives at the edge of a housing estate, bringing a protected prehistoric (from the era before writing arri…
- Near Cookstown
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Settlement · Medieval
Gainsthorpe
Lincolnshire
Gainsthorpe is a well-preserved deserted medieval village where sunken roads and raised tofts and crofts make a lost settlement plan visible in the…
- Near Hibaldstow
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Gariannonum
Norfolk
Gariannonum is a debated Saxon Shore fort identity, likely tied to Burgh Castle and/or Caister-on-Sea, revealing how Rome guarded the Yare estuary…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Garvaghullion
County Tyrone
Garvaghullion preserves a Scheduled Bronze Age wooden trackway found deep in a raised bog landscape heavily reduced by peat extraction.
- Near Omagh
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Giant's Grave, Cumbria
Cumbria
Two standing stones at the foot of Black Combe carry rare prehistoric (before any written account of Britain existed) cup and ring carvings, one st…
- Near Penrith
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Girona (ship)
County Antrim
La Girona’s 1588 wreck off County Antrim joins Spanish Armada loss, local rescue and one of the richest recovered Armada treasure collections.
- Near Portballintrae
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Fortified place · Roman
Gobannium
Monmouthshire
Stamped into the fabric of roof tiles recovered from beneath the centre of Abergavenny is the mark of the Legio II (the Second Legion, whose base w…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Goffers Knoll
Cambridgeshire
A wooded chalk knoll conceals a substantially intact Bronze Age: roughly 2500–800 BC: burial mound, sited to loom over the ancient Icknield Way below.
- Near Royston
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Fortified place · Medieval
Gortalowry
County Tyrone
Gortalowry is a rural–urban County Tyrone townland where a Scheduled rath (an early-medieval Irish farmstead ringed by an earth bank), church and f…
- Near Dungannon
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Great Haigh Sough
Greater Manchester
Great Haigh Sough is a 17th-century mine-drainage tunnel whose surviving portal records the engineering that prolonged coal workings and later shap…
- Near Aspull
- Rough ground
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Ancient place · Medieval
Great Western Colliery
Rhondda Cynon Taf
At Hopkinstown, on the edge of Pontypridd in the Glamorgan valleys, the headframe and engine house of the Hetty Pit still stand above ground where…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Grey Abbey, Down
County Down
Grey Abbey preserves a Cistercian foundation with a rare female patron and some of the earliest Early Gothic pointed arches in Ireland.
- Near Newtownards
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Fortified place · Roman
Grim's Ditch (Harrow)
Greater London
Grim’s Ditch is a surviving London earthwork (banks and ditches raised from the earth rather than quarried stone) whose ridge-top line, possible la…
- Near Harrow Weald
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Grimstock Hill Romano-British settlement
Warwickshire
A circular wooden temple stood here before the conquest. Stone temples of the Roman period replaced it, in two phases.
- Near Coleshill
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Building or ruin · Roman
Guildhall Art Gallery
City of London
The City of London's art collection displayed above the remains of Britain's largest Roman amphitheatre, joining Victorian paintings to Roman archa…
- Near City of London
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Hadrian's Wall Path
Northumberland
Hadrian’s Wall Path turns the Roman frontier into an 84-mile National Trail, connecting urban Tyne-side sites, exposed Wall country, and the Solway…
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Building or ruin · Iron Age
Halangy Down
Cornwall
Halangy Down condenses five centuries of prehistoric (before written records reached Britain) and Romano-British (Britain under Roman rule, AD 43–4…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Harlow Marsh
Hertfordshire
A medieval moat, scheduled as a nationally important monument, survives quietly inside a modern wetland reserve of reed beds, wildflower meadow and…
- Near Harlow
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Haughey's Fort
Armagh
Haughey's Fort is a large late Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC) hilltop enclosure near Armagh, whose concentric ditches preserve an earlier ceremon…
- Near Armagh
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Hengistbury Head
Dorset
Hengistbury Head is an internationally important coastal archaeological landscape, recording human activity from the Upper Palaeolithic through an…
- Near Christchurch
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Hensbarrow Beacon
Cornwall
Hensbarrow Beacon combines a medieval stannary centre, a scheduled beacon cairn (a mound of piled stones, often covering a burial) and the mapping…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
HMS Calgarian
Antrim
HMS Calgarian was a transatlantic liner turned armed merchant cruiser whose wartime patrols, Halifax Explosion relief work and 1918 U-boat sinking…
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Building or ruin
HMS H5
Isle of Anglesey
On 2 March 1918, off Caernarfon Bay, the British merchantman Rutherglen struck HMS H5 head-on, having mistaken the low-lying British submarine for…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
HMY Mary
Isle of Anglesey
In July 1971 two diving groups working independently off Anglesey each raised bronze cannon from the same scatter of wreckage on the south-west cor…
- Near Bangor
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Building or ruin · Roman
Hod Hill
Dorset
Hod Hill is a large Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) fort with a short-lived Roman camp inside it, combining Durotrigan settlemen…
- Near Stourpaine
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Holkham Camp
norfolk
An oval enclosure on a sandy spit, reachable only by eye: the site is not normally walkable, and is watched from a bird hide in the woods to the no…
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