Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Lanyon Quoit
Cornwall
A great Cornish dolmen transformed by an 1815 storm collapse, then rebuilt by local effort into the three-legged monument seen today.
- Near Penzance
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Largin Castle
Cornwall
A compact Iron Age hillfort: an Iron Age settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground, the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800…
- Near Penzance
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Roman
Lavatrae
County Durham
A Roman fort guarding the eastern gateway to the Stainmore Pass, later reoccupied so directly that a medieval castle rose inside its own perimeter…
- Near Bowes
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Building or ruin · Roman
Leahill Turret, Hadrian's Wall
Cumbria
A Roman lookout tower whose stone walls, floor and even a soldier's skeleton lay hidden beneath a Cumbrian road until 1927, when excavation exposed…
- Near Carlisle
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Building or ruin · Roman
Lees Hall Roman Camp
Northumberland
Lees Hall Roman Camp is an unusually fortified temporary camp near Hadrian’s Wall, with an outer work suggesting repeated or extended military use…
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Sacred place · Roman
Legs Cross
County Durham
The carved lettering that gave this Anglo-Saxon cross its name survived a thousand years only to be chiselled away after 1966, leaving historians a…
- Near Bishop Auckland
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Sacred place · Medieval
Leicester's Church, Denbigh
Denbighshire
A vast Elizabethan preaching-house left roofless when its patron's money and his only son both ran out: the sole attempt at a new Protestant cathed…
- Near Denbigh
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Lesingey Round
Cornwall
Lesingey Round is a scheduled Cornish ringfort whose substantial bank and ditch preserve a late Iron Age (from around 800 BC up to the Roman conque…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Leskernick Hill
Cornwall
Leskernick Hill preserves an exceptionally well-preserved Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC) settlement landscape of houses, fields, cairns, stone ci…
- Near Penzance
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Roman
Letocetum
Staffordshire
A Roman posting station that outlived its own fortress, lost its bath house and inn to fire around 300, and gave the modern village its name - Wall…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Liddington Castle
Wiltshire
Excavation dated first occupation to the 7th century BC, making this one of the earliest hillforts built anywhere in Britain.
- Some walking
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Carved stone · Medieval
Lilla Cross
North Yorkshire
A stone cross on a windswept moorland burial mound marks where four ancient parishes meet, a boundary charter first named it in 1109, and it still…
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Limekilns at Kiln Park, Pembrokeshire
Pembrokeshire
Twelve kilns nine metres high, the largest surviving in Pembrokeshire, standing in the grounds of a caravan park.
- Near Penally
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Lincluden Collegiate Church
Dumfries and Galloway
Lincluden’s ruins record the transformation of Galloway’s first nunnery into a richly endowed collegiate church: a church staffed by a college of p…
- Near Newton Stewart
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Linlithgow Palace
West Lothian
Taken back from the English by a hay merchant in 1313, birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots, and burned by accident in 1746.
- Near Linlithgow
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Lismore Fields
Derbyshire
Post holes in a Buxton field mark timber houses built by people who were just learning to grow grain: among the earliest farming evidence found any…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Litten Chapel
Berkshire
Its carved oak roof trusses, hidden by later ceilings for generations and only uncovered in 1980, survive as one of the clearest examples of early…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Little Moreton Hall
Cheshire
A timber-framed manor whose top-heavy Long Gallery and bowing floorboards have survived four centuries without a single wall left standing true.
- Near Congleton
- Easy path
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Ancient place · Iron Age
Little Woodbury
Wiltshire
A ring of postholes here rewrote how archaeologists understood Iron Age (the period from roughly 800 BC to the Roman conquest) life, showing people…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Littlecote Roman Villa
Wiltshire
A farmhouse that became a pagan temple: its Orpheus mosaic marks a religious cult centre built as Rome's empire turned against the old gods.
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Llanddona fish weir
Gwynedd
Llanddona fish weir is a scheduled post-medieval (after about 1500) V-shaped tidal fish trap at Red Wharf Bay, preserving a large-scale form of coa…
- Near Llanddona
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Llanfaes Friary
Isle of Anglesey
Llanfaes Friary preserves the buried remains of a Franciscan house founded for Joan, Lady of Wales, whose survival through Edward I’s forced depopu…
- Near Beaumaris
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Building or ruin · Roman
Llantwit Major Roman Villa
Vale of Glamorgan
Two burials were dug straight through the tessellated pavement of rooms 8 and 9, and a contorted skeleton was found in the corridor.
- Near Llantwit Major
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Lligwy Burial Chamber
isle-of-anglesey
A Neolithic chamber: of the first farming age, roughly 4000–2500 BC: roofed by a single limestone slab of about 25 tonnes, resting on only three of…
- Near Moelfre
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Llys Euryn
Conwy
A late-medieval Conwy house linked to the ancestry of the Tudor dynasty, preserved on Bryn Euryn after fire, quarry damage and modern conservation.
- Near Conwy
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Llys Rhosyr
Isle of Anglesey
The only excavated royal court of the medieval Welsh kingdom of Gwynedd, its buried hall now has a full-scale twin standing at St Fagans in Cardiff.
- Near Bangor
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Loch a' Bharain
Argyll and Bute
Loch a’ Bharain is a purpose-built Crinan Canal reservoir whose 1801 dam stabilised the summit reach and whose recent drainage exposed traces of an…
- Near Cairnbaan
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Loch Gorm Castle
Argyll and Bute
A Clan Donald stronghold so thoroughly reduced that its island now looks bare from the shore, yet its walls changed hands four times in fewer than…
- Rough ground
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Settlement · Medieval
Lochleven Castle
Perth and Kinross
Besieged in 1335 by an English force that dammed the loch to drown it. The captain went off to a saint's festival, and the defenders broke the dam.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Lochnell Castle
Argyll and Bute
A staircase inside is said to be carved from a sacred yew felled on nearby Bernera Island: timber that reportedly survived at least two fires which…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Lockleys Roman Villa
Hertfordshire
Excavation here traced five successive building phases on one plot, from a first-century round hut to a fourth-century villa, a rare stratified rec…
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Building or ruin · Roman
London Mithraeum
City of London
London's most famous twentieth-century Roman discovery: a soldiers' mystery temple, displaced for development and returned to a site beneath the Bl…
- Near London
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
London to Brighton Way
Surrey
Its final miles have never been pinned down: archaeologists still argue whether the road ended at Brighton or Portslade, making it one of the few m…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Long Burgh Long Barrow
East Sussex
A 180-foot earthen mound raised by Sussex's first farming communities, it belongs to a distinct chalk-downland style of long burial mound found now…
- Near Alfriston
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Long Low, Wetton
Staffordshire
Two cairns joined by a 200-metre bank of upright limestone slabs: a form found nowhere else in England, and still not understood.
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Long Man of Wilmington
East Sussex
The Long Man is one of England’s two major surviving human hill figures, but archaeological work now suggests this famous chalk-downland image is E…
- Near Wilmington
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Longovicium
County Durham
Its water supply was so oversized for an ordinary fort that archaeologists suspect large-scale iron smelting lay behind it: one of Roman Britain's…
- Near Lanchester
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Longstone of Minchinhampton
Gloucestershire
Longstone’s naturally pierced limestone links a surviving monolith with a local healing tradition, while nearby barrows and finds place it in an ol…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Longthorpe Tower
Cambridgeshire
Beneath centuries of whitewash, Longthorpe Tower hid one of England's most complete sets of 14th-century domestic wall paintings, unseen until the…
- Near Peterborough
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Loughbrickland Crannóg
County Down
Loughbrickland Crannóg is a Scheduled Bronze Age artificial island that brings prehistoric (from the era before writing arrived in these islands) s…
- Near Banbridge
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Luffness Castle
East Lothian
Luffness preserves a house within a former fortification, where medieval Lindsay power, a short-lived 1549 French–Scottish fort and later country-h…
- Near Dunbar
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Lugbury Long Barrow
Wiltshire
A false doorway: a capstone leaning on two uprights, leading nowhere. The real chambers held twenty-six people.
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Lullingstone Roman Villa
Kent
Lullingstone Roman Villa combines a high-status Darent Valley residence, major mythological mosaics and an exceptionally early British Christian ho…
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Fortified place · Roman
Lunt Roman Fort
Warwickshire
A Roman fort of unknown name on the south-eastern edge of Coventry, now open to the public.
- Near Coventry
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Lydney Park
Gloucestershire
Lydney Park brings together a Bathurst country estate and one of Britain’s most evocative Romano-Celtic temple complexes, where the cult of Nodens,…
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Lyneham Longbarrow
Oxfordshire
A long burial mound beside the A361, with a standing stone 1.8 metres high at its end.
- Near Lyneham
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Carved stone · Medieval
Mab's Cross
Greater Manchester
Mab’s Cross is a surviving medieval Wigan waymarker whose later association with Lady Mabel Bradshaigh shows how local legend can attach to a real…
- Near Wigan
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Madeley Old Manor
Staffordshire
Edward III licensed its owner to make a castle of it in 1348 and made him a founder Knight of the Garter weeks later. The family lost it to an exec…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Madron Well and Madron Well Chapel
Cornwall
Madron Well and its ruined chapel combine an early Christian sacred landscape, a once vital water source and enduring Cornish traditions of healing…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Maen Achwyfan
flintshire
The tallest wheel cross in Britain, 3.4 metres from a single block, carved with a naked man treading on a snake: and nobody has agreed in three cen…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Maen Huail
Denbighshire
A humble market stone was recast by folklore as the execution block where King Arthur beheaded a rival: legend layered onto stone centuries after i…
- Near Denbigh
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Maen Llia
Powys
A diamond of Old Red Sandstone, twelve feet high, whose evening shadow reaches the river between April and September - which is probably the source…
- Near Ystradfellte
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Maen Madoc
Powys
A ten-foot stone beside a Roman road, inscribed for a man called Dervacus: and named after a Madoc nobody can identify.
- Near Ystradfellte
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Magazine Gateway
Leicestershire
A medieval gatehouse that once guarded a religious precinct now stands marooned on a traffic island, its rooms having served as prison, militia hal…
- Near Leicester
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Magdalen Hill Down
Hampshire
A chalk hillside east of Winchester carries three unconnected pasts in one place: a Bronze Age burial line, a medieval leper hospital turned First…
- Near Winchester
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Magnis (Kenchester)
Herefordshire
Its Roman name outlived the town itself: the Mercian sub-kingdom that absorbed this ground, the Magonsaete, took its own name directly from Magnis.
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Building or ruin · Roman
Magpie Mine
Derbyshire
Derbyshire's last working lead mine, closed in 1958, survives with its Cornish engine house, twin chimneys and winding drum intact rather than demo…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Maiden Castle, Dorset
Dorset
Maiden Castle is Britain’s largest hillfort, a defended settlement on high ground, and a vast prehistoric, from before written records reached Brit…
- Near Dorchester
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Maiden Castle, Durham
County Durham
An Iron Age promontory fort (a headland cut off by ramparts to make a defensible enclosure) east of Durham whose steep slopes and surviving earthwo…
- Near Durham
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Maiden Castle, North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire
Possibly one of only two banjo enclosures in northern England, entered along a rare funnelled avenue whose original purpose still divides archaeolo…
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Maiden's Bower
County Durham
A prehistoric burial mound: from from the era before writing arrived in these islands: became a medieval battle standard: Durham's monks raised St…
- Near Durham
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Mam Tor
Derbyshire
The summit rampart is being eaten by the hillside it stands on: the landslip behind the hill's "Shivering Mountain" nickname has been gnawing at th…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Manor Farmhouse, Crick
Monmouthshire
In July 1645, as the First English Civil War drew to its end, Nicholas Moore twice sheltered the fugitive king Charles I here: a private manor brie…
- Near Crick
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Manorbier Dovecote
Pembrokeshire
A twelfth- or thirteenth-century dovecote within the castle estate, listed Grade II*.
- Near Manorbier
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Marden Henge
Wiltshire
Built from earth and timber rather than stone, Britain's largest known henge shaped its boundary around the River Avon: a landscape logic unmatched…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Margam Roman villa
Neath Port Talbot
Margam Roman villa is evidence for the largest known Roman villa in Wales, preserved beneath an unploughed deer park within a wider historic estate.
- Near Port Talbot
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Margam Stones Museum
Neath Port Talbot
Margam Stones Museum holds one of Britain’s most important local collections of early Christian carving: 17 pre-Norman stones and later memorials t…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Margidunum
Nottinghamshire
Margidunum’s Fosse Way settlement outlived Roman rule by a century, preserving evidence for a frontier post that became a durable small town.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Markenfield Hall
North Yorkshire
A moated manor still owned by battlements first licensed in 1310, its restored chapel hosted a wedding in 2001: the first since 1487.
- Easy path
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Martin Down Enclosure
Hampshire
This modest rectangular bank on Martin Down gave its name to an entire class of Bronze Age settlement: everything now called a "Martin Down style e…
- Near Winchester
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Masham Market Cross
North Yorkshire
Masham Market Cross keeps a medieval market-place landmark legible through its surviving base, later shaft, and formal protection as both listed st…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Maumbury Rings
Dorset
Maumbury Rings is a rare Dorchester monument repeatedly reinvented: a late Stone Age enclosure, Roman amphitheatre, Civil War artillery fort, execu…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Maxstoke Castle
Warwickshire
A chair on which Henry VII was crowned after Bosworth, and the table the Gunpowder Plot was planned around, are both in this house.
- Near Maxstoke
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Mayburgh Henge
Cumbria
Its ring was raised from river cobbles rather than dug as a ditch-and-bank earthwork, a construction method that sets it apart from almost every ot…
- Near Penrith
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Melingriffith Tin Plate Works
Cardiff
By the end of the 18th century this was the largest tin-plate works on earth, and its water pump survives as a scheduled monument (legally protecte…
- Near Whitchurch, Cardiff
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Melingriffith Water Pump
Cardiff
Built to settle a legal fight over stolen water, its towering paddle wheel and oak beams survive as one of Britain's few intact eighteenth-century…
- Near Whitchurch, Cardiff
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
Mên Scryfa
Cornwall
Mên Scryfa preserves an early medieval (roughly AD 400–1100, between the Romans and the Normans) Latin inscription on a standing stone, connecting…
- Near Penzance
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Mên-an-Tol
Cornwall
Mên-an-Tol is Cornwall’s best-known holed stone, combining an enigmatic late Neolithic monument: from the first farming period in Britain, roughly…
- Near Penzance
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Merryton Low
Staffordshire
A hill a few miles east of Leek, in the civil parish of Fawfieldhead.
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Metchley Fort
West Midlands
Rebuilt four times in little more than a century, Metchley is among the most excavated Roman military sites in the Midlands, its full occupation st…
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Prehistoric
Leper Stone
Essex
The Leper Stone is a large sarsen near Newport whose association with a medieval leper hospital and possible prehistoric (predating the written rec…
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Tomb or burial place · Medieval
Letterbrat
County Tyrone
Letterbrat combines a Tyrone townland’s portal tomb, a Stone Age tomb of upright stones carrying a single great capstone, with a working quarry exp…
- Near Omagh
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Building or ruin · Roman
Leucarum
Swansea
Beneath the streets of Loughor, at the mouth of the River Loughor where it meets the estuary that carries its name, lie the buried defences of a Ro…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Lindinis
Somerset
A small Roman town in Britannia, on the ground now occupied by Ilchester.
- Near Ilchester
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Building or ruin · Roman
Lindum Colonia
Lincolnshire
Lindum Colonia, Roman Lincoln, developed from a legionary fortress into a veteran colonia with walls, public buildings, aqueduct, sewerage and indu…
- Near Lincoln
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Fortified place · Medieval
Liskincon
County Tyrone
Liskincon is a small Tyrone townland whose Scheduled rath (an early-medieval Irish farmstead ringed by an earth bank) preserves an ancient fort wit…
- Near Omagh
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Fortified place · Medieval
Lisnagade
County Down
Lisnagade is a large protected multivallate ringfort whose three massive banks and deep ditches preserve an early historic enclosure, with finds su…
- Near Downpatrick
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Building or ruin · Roman
London to Lewes Way
Kent
The London to Lewes Way is a 71-kilometre Roman road whose engineered route and surviving slag surfaces reveal long-distance movement across the We…
- Near Edenbridge
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
London Wall
City of London
The Roman and medieval wall that made the City of London, shaping its gates, roads and boundary from around AD 200 into the modern street plan.
- Near City of London
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Loughinisland Churches
Down
Loughinisland’s three church ruins make one island graveyard a record of changing worship, from medieval fabric to seventeenth-century rebuilding a…
- Near Downpatrick
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Luentinum
Carmarthenshire
In the early 1970s the River Cothi cut into its own bank near Pumsaint in Carmarthenshire and exposed a stamped Samian ware inkwell. That single fi…
- Near Carmarthen
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Tomb or burial place · Roman
Lullingstone Country Park
Kent
Few country parks combine a Domesday deer-park inheritance, Roman pottery, Second World War decoy works, and veteran trees supporting nationally ra…
- Near Lullingstone
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Ancient place · Medieval
M. S. Factory, Valley
Flintshire
For a few weeks in 1942, a converted munitions shed in a quiet Flintshire valley held the leading edge of nuclear physics. Building P6, one of seve…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Magnis (Carvoran)
Northumberland
Magnis at Carvoran is a pre-Hadrianic road fort whose rare Hamian archers, civilian settlement, and Roman Army Museum preserve the military life of…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Mallabeny
County Tyrone
Mallabeny’s large Scheduled hillfort (a hilltop enclosure ringed by earth ramparts) preserves a substantial ancient enclosure within a small County…
- Near Dungannon
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Building or ruin · Roman
Manduessedum
Warwickshire
Up to seventy Roman pottery kilns have been found here. Boudica's final battle may have been fought nearby.
- Near Mancetter
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Manor of Scadbury
Greater London
The Manor of Scadbury links medieval Chislehurst, the Walsingham family and Christopher Marlowe to a 300-acre nature reserve, preserving a former e…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Margery Hill
South Yorkshire
A moorland summit whose stone cairn (a mound of piled stones, often covering a burial) turned out, on dating, to be a deliberately built Bronze Age…
- Rough ground
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Settlement · Medieval
Massereene Lower
Antrim
Massereene Lower is a County Antrim barony with Ireland's largest documented concentration of ringforts, making this administrative landscape unusu…
- Near Antrim
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Building or ruin · Roman
Mediolanum (Whitchurch)
Shropshire
Mediolanum shows Whitchurch’s change from a Roman military fort to an industrial and commercial town on the Chester–Wroxeter route, with timber tra…
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