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Fortified place · Iron Age
Wraxall Camp
Somerset
A small round bank and ditch in woodland, probably an ancient farmstead rather than a fort.
- Near Failand
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Wressle Castle
East Riding of Yorkshire
A great lord's palace built to impress rather than defend, its four towers and gatehouse still stand witness to a family that fell and rose again w…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Wychbury Ring
Worcestershire
Two full circuits of bank and ditch enclosing nearly three hectares of Wychbury Hill: a serious defensive statement, not a modest lookout.
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Wymondley Castle
Hertfordshire
A grassed-over motte, the earthen mound a castle was raised on, and bailey, the defended yard attached to the mound, tied to a wider group of castl…
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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 · Medieval
Yarmouth Castle
Isle of Wight
Yarmouth Castle is Henry VIII’s pioneering artillery fort, the first English example of an arrow-head bastion and a long-lived guardian of the Sole…
- Near Yarmouth
- Easy path
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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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Fortified place · Medieval
Yattendon Castle
Berkshire
A dropped handkerchief at a 1520 dance here became courtroom evidence in the Anne Boleyn trial sixteen years later: the earthworks are almost all t…
- Near Yattendon
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Yeavering Bell
Northumberland
Yeavering Bell combines a massive defended hilltop enclosure with views toward the Anglian royal centre below, joining upland settlement to early N…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Yester Castle
East Lothian
Yester is remembered for its extraordinary underground Goblin Ha’, a surviving medieval hall bound to the enduring folklore of the ‘Wizard of Yester’.
- Near Dunbar
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Fortified place · Medieval
Yielden Castle
Bedfordshire
A double-baileyed stronghold of the Trailly family for over a century, now reduced to a grassed mound whose buried stone curtain was only confirmed…
- Near Yelden
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
York Castle
North Yorkshire
A single motte (the great earth mound at the heart of an early castle) has carried a wooden fort, a quatrefoil stone keep, a Georgian jail and a Vi…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ystrad Peithyll
Ceredigion
A Norman motte thrown up on the River Peithyll and burned out by Welsh rebels within a few years: a fortification whose failure is as telling as it…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Roman
Ythan Wells
Aberdeenshire
Two marching camps of different size and date lie stacked on the same patch of ground: among the northernmost Roman camps ever built in Scotland.
- Near Huntly
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Zouches Manor
Cambridgeshire
One of five historic manors packed into a single Cambridgeshire village, its documented life spans 1066 to 1539 and threads together a Breton earl,…
- Near Cambridge
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Y Garn Goch
Carmarthenshire
Two Iron Age hillforts crown a common-access hill above the Towy Valley, together described as the largest in southern Wales.
- Near Bethlehem
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Yarrowbury
Devon
Yarrowbury is an Iron Age hillfort: a defended enclosure on high ground, ringed with banks and ditches, dating from the centuries before Rome arriv…
- Near Bigbury
- Some walking
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