Fortified place · Medieval
Bury Castle, Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester
Bury Castle preserves the foundations of a late-medieval moated manor whose destruction after Bosworth shows the direct consequences of the Wars of…
- Near Bury
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Bury Castle, Selworthy
somerset
A defended enclosure of a fifth of a hectare on a spur above Selworthy, with a second bank thrown out thirty metres west, where the ground offers n…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bury Ditches
Shropshire
One of the most complete hillforts in the Shropshire Hills: visible only because two decades of storms took the forestry off it.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bury Hill
Hampshire
A double ring of earthen ramparts raised in two distinct building phases, then reused centuries later as a royal war-camp during the fight for the…
- Near Andover
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Bury Manor
Gloucestershire
Its castellated walls are barely two centuries old, but the cellars beneath them are a genuine survival from a 13th-century manor house on the same…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Bury Mount
Northamptonshire
A Norman motte-and-bailey, a timber tower on an earth mound with a walled yard beside it, raised during the Anarchy on ground already defended agai…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Bury St Edmunds Abbey
Suffolk
In October 1327 monks walked into the parish church, threw off their habits to show armour underneath and took hostages. The townspeople burned the…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bury Walls
Shropshire
A protected defended site on a sandstone ridge south-east of Weston-under-Redcastle.
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Bush Barrow
Wiltshire
A single Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking spread) burial on a Wiltshire ridge produced the richest grave goods found anywhere in…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Bushmead Priory
Bedfordshire
Only the refectory, where a small Augustinian community ate, and its kitchen survive, roofed by a rare king-post timber frame that has stood since…
- Near Bushmead
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bussock Camp
Berkshire
Its ramparts are lopsidedly built: doubled banks and ditches guard the south and east, while a single bank was thought sufficient for the gentler n…
- Near Chieveley
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Butley Priory
Suffolk
An Augustinian house founded by Ranulf de Glanville in 1171 and suppressed in 1538.
- Near Butley
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Sacred place · Medieval
Buttevant Franciscan Friary
County Cork
A friary porch that once doubled as the town's law court: leases signed, marriages contracted, fealty sworn: until a Parliamentarian army burned th…
- Near Buttevant
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Iron Age
Buzbury Rings
Dorset
Buzbury Rings is a multi-period Dorset enclosure where Neolithic origins: from the late Stone Age, about 4000–2500 BC in Britain: Iron Age defences…
- Near Tarrant Keyneston
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bwrdd Arthur
Isle of Anglesey
Bwrdd Arthur is an Anglesey hillfort: a settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground during the Iron Age, the centuries before Rome arri…
- Near Llanddona
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Byland Abbey
North Yorkshire
Its ruined west front still holds half a stone rose window that inspired York Minster's own, and a monk here wrote down twelve ghost stories now re…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Bytham Castle
Lincolnshire
Bytham Castle preserves the earthwork (a bank, ditch or mound shaped from soil rather than built in stone) footprint of a probable early Norman hil…
- Near Castle Bytham
- Some walking
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Ancient place · Medieval
Bytham River
Suffolk
A great Pleistocene river of central England, destroyed by ice about 450,000 years ago: and, since the mid-2010s, argued not to have existed at all.
- Near Mildenhall
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Fortified place · Medieval
Bywell Castle
Northumberland
Bywell Castle preserves the imposing gatehouse of an unfinished Neville project, overlooking the Tyne and retaining a direct link to the Wars of th…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cadbury Camp
Somerset
An Iron Age fort with Roman coins, a statue of Mars and a wartime searchlight battery: and a Camelot legend that probably belongs to a different Ca…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cadbury Castle, Devon
Devon
Cadbury Castle is a strategically placed hillfort, a defended enclosure on high ground, ringed with banks and ditches, whose exceptional views link…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cadbury Castle, Somerset
Somerset
A defended hilltop at South Cadbury, ringed by banks and ditches on high ground.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cadbury Hill
Somerset
An Iron Age fort - roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest - refortified around AD 400 after Rome withdrew, and trading with Byzantium a century la…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Cade's Road
County Durham
Cade's Road takes its name not from a Roman engineer or emperor but from John Cade, a Durham antiquarian (an early collector-scholar of antiquities…
- Near Durham
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cadson Bury
Cornwall
A single bank and ditch ringing 2.5 hectares above the Lynher, with opposed entrances east and west and not one house platform visible inside it.
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Caen Hill Locks
Wiltshire
Sixteen locks climb a hillside in an unbroken straight line, their oversized sideways pounds built purely to store enough water to keep the flight…
- Near Devizes
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Caer Bach
Conwy
A small, little-investigated hillfort: a defended hilltop settlement of the Iron Age: above the Conwy valley whose double defences still hold the p…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Caer Bran
Cornwall
The inner wall of Caer Bran was once a circular stone-lined rampart (a defensive embankment ringing the site) twelve feet thick, enclosing a space…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Caer Caradoc
Shropshire
A hill above Church Stretton, named for Caradog and distinct from the fort near Bucknell.
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Caer Caradoc (Chapel Lawn)
shropshire
Two Shropshire hillforts sixteen miles apart carry this name, and both are claimed as the site of Caratacus's last battle against Rome.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Caer Castell Camp
Cardiff
A nine-metre earthen mound still rises inside a working school's grounds, one of the few Norman-period defences to survive Cardiff's expansion larg…
- Near Rumney, Cardiff
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Caer Drewyn
Denbighshire
A dry-stone rampart (a defensive embankment ringing the site) nearly three hectares in extent, still remembered as the muster point where Owain Gly…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Caer Euni
Gwynedd
Caer Euni is a compact, expanded Iron Age hillfort: a settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground from roughly 800 BC until the Roman c…
- Near Llandderfel
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Roman
Caer Gai
Gwynedd
Caer Gai preserves a Roman road-junction fort whose walls, later Welsh literary associations and post-medieval (after about 1500) reuse reveal cent…
- Near Llanuwchllyn
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Roman
Caer Gybi (fort)
Isle of Anglesey
Caer Gybi is a rare Roman coastal fortlet at Holyhead whose substantial walls were reused for St Cybi’s monastery, linking late Roman defence with…
- Near Holyhead
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Roman
Caer Lêb
isle-of-anglesey
A double-banked enclosure on marshy ground west of Brynsiencyn where an 1865 dig found a Roman coin, a bronze brooch and Samian pottery: and, above…
- Near Brynsiencyn
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Caer Llugwy
Conwy
A Roman fort in the Llugwy valley where a later courtyard building may preserve the story of a garrison becoming a roadside posting station.
- Near Capel Curig
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Caer Mote
Cumbria
A modest Lake District fell carries a Roman fort in its shadow and an earthwork (banks and ditches raised from the earth rather than quarried stone…
- Near Wigton
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Caer y Twr
isle-of-anglesey
An Iron Age hillfort on the summit of Holyhead Mountain whose ruined ramparts still stand three metres high, with the footings of a later tower: a…
- Near Holyhead
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Caerau Hillfort
Cardiff
A ruined medieval church and an unrecorded castle mound sit inside the ramparts, three layers of settlement stacked on one Cardiff ridge.
- Near Cardiff
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Caergwrle Castle
Flintshire
The last castle built by a Welsh ruler before the conquest of 1282, it changed hands from Dafydd ap Gruffydd to an English queen within six years,…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Caerlaverock Castle
Dumfries and Galloway
Caerlaverock is the UK’s only triangular castle, retaining a moat, great gatehouse and Renaissance lodging amid a history of sieges, rebuilding and…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Roman
Caerleon Roman Fortress and Baths
Newport
Caerleon is one of only three permanent legionary fortresses in Roman Britain, with unusually accessible remains of its baths, amphitheatre and bar…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Caernarfon Castle
Gwynedd
Caernarfon Castle is Edward I’s monumental administrative fortress in north Wales, a deliberately Roman-imperial design whose defences, unfinished…
- Near Caernarfon
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Caernarfon town walls
Gwynedd
Caernarfon’s town walls are an unusually intact Edwardian circuit, built with the castle to establish a new administrative capital and still defini…
- Near Caernarfon
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Caerphilly Castle
Caerphilly
Britain's first concentric castle, ringed by artificial lakes so elaborate one historian called them the most sophisticated water defences in the c…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Caersws Roman Forts
Powys
Two Roman forts of different generations at Caersws: one an oversized campaign camp in a bend of the Severn, the other a permanent fort with the vi…
- Near Caersws
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Caerwent Training Area
Monmouthshire
A Cold War rocket-motor works turned Gulf War ammunition depot, its 400-odd bunkers now awaiting new life as a British Army barracks.
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Caesar's Camp, Bracknell Forest
Berkshire
A mile-long rampart shaped like an oak leaf, built by hand on ground too poor to farm: one of the largest hillforts in southern England, sustained…
- Near Crowthorne
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Caesar's Camp, Rushmoor and Waverley
Surrey
One of the largest multivallate hillforts in southern England, its Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) ramparts were later reused wh…
- Near Farnborough
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Caherduff Castle
County Mayo
Taken into Irish state care in 1918, this Mayo tower house survives today chiefly as a protected National Monument, its stone walls the last clear…
- Near Ballina
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Cahir Abbey
County Tipperary
A working priory, a monastery headed by a prior, whose altar end, tower and covered walkway survive largely intact from three separate building cam…
- Near Cahir
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Cahir Castle
County Tipperary
One of the largest castles in Ireland, built on a river island where a stone-fort name, a royal siege, a notorious murder trial and a Cromwellian s…
- Near Cahir
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Cainhoe Castle
Bedfordshire
Its entire village died with the Black Death in 1348, then lay forgotten until 20th-century excavation uncovered the earthworks of a Norman motte,…
- Near Clophill
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Cairn Catto
Aberdeenshire
A near-48-metre wedge of pink granite boulders on a Buchan ridge, one of north-east Scotland's longer Neolithic (the first farming age, roughly 400…
- Near Longside
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Cairnbulg Castle
Aberdeenshire
One of nine strongholds historian W. Douglas Simpson grouped as the castles of the Knuckle, Aberdeenshire's rocky north-east headland, and still he…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Cairnburgh Castle
Argyll and Bute
A single fortress split across two separate islets in the Treshnish Isles, held in turn by the heirs of Somerled and the Macleans of Duart for over…
- Near Tobermory
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Cairnderry chambered cairn
Dumfries and Galloway
Cairnderry chambered cairn: a Neolithic burial mound built around a stone chamber, dating from the late Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC in Britain:…
- Near Newton Stewart
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Cairnton stone
Aberdeenshire
Found in a field-clearance heap in 2001, its incised crescent-and-V-rod and triple disc symbols mark a seventh-century Pictish (of the Picts, the p…
- Near Newmachar
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Caisteal Grugaig
Highland
A drystone tower still rising over its own five-step internal stair and a triangular lintel massive enough to have never needed a keystone.
- Near Shiel Bridge
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Caister Castle
Norfolk
Caister Castle is a rare fifteenth-century moated castle whose Fastolf and Paston ownership stories, 1469 siege and rich documentary record in the…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Calder Abbey
Cumbria
A refounded Savigniac house that turned Cistercian, its ruined crossing tower still standing beside a private house built into the monks' own domes…
- Near Egremont
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Sacred place · Medieval
Caldey Priory
Pembrokeshire
A twelfth-century island priory: a religious house led by a prior, a rank below an abbot: that never held more than a handful of monks, and whose c…
- Near Caldey Island
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Fortified place · Medieval
Caldicot Castle
Monmouthshire
A Norman stronghold rebuilt by the king's own uncle in the 1380s, then rescued from farmyard ruin by a Victorian family who filled its towers with…
- Near Caldicot
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Caldwall Castle
Worcestershire
One tower is all that survives of a courtyard castle once laid out like Stokesay in Shropshire: four towers around a yard, now reduced to a single…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Caldwell Priory
Bedfordshire
A priory: a monastery headed by a prior rather than an abbot: whose canons armed a royal siege, fought a bishop's tithe collectors for two centurie…
- Near Bedford
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Sacred place · Medieval
Calke Priory
Derbyshire
A priory, a monastery headed by a prior and usually smaller than an abbey, a self-governing monastery, its head an abbot, whose canons left for Rep…
- Near Bakewell
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Callaly Castle
Northumberland
Callaly Castle layers a medieval pele tower within a long-evolving country house, revealing how Northumberland’s defensive residences were transfor…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Callan Augustinian Friary
County Kilkenny
Callan Augustinian Friary preserves a late-medieval observant foundation and its celebrated stone seats for clergy beside a holy well whose local h…
- Near Callan
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Callanish IV
Outer Hebrides
Five stones stand today at Callanish IV, arranged in a pronounced oval measuring 13.3 by 9.5 metres on open moorland southeast of the main Callanis…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Calleva Atrebatum
Hampshire
One of only six Roman towns in Britain that never grew into a medieval or modern town: its walls, amphitheatre and street grid survive under open f…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Calshot Castle
Hampshire
One of Henry VIII's Device Forts still standing almost exactly where the Tudor navy needed it, later reinvented three times over: as a smuggling wa…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Caludon Castle
West Midlands
One large fragment of sandstone wall is all that is left of a house restyled as a castle in 1305 and held by the Mowbrays until 1481.
- Near Coventry
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Calvay Castle
Outer Hebrides
A ruined castle occupies a small islet off the island of Calbhaigh, at the eastern approaches to Loch Boisdale on South Uist, reached only by a cau…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Calwich Abbey
Staffordshire
A priory of about 1130, then a country house, then another rebuilt in 1849: each demolished for the next, with Handel and Rousseau among the guests.
- Near Ellastone
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Camber Castle
East Sussex
A Device Fort built by Henry VIII that was already obsolete before it was finished, then left stranded a mile inland as the sea it was built to gua…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Camboglanna
Cumbria
Alone among the forts of Hadrian's Wall it sits inside the Vallum rather than beside the Wall itself, and it has been argued: controversially: to b…
- Near Carlisle
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Sacred place · Medieval
Cambridge Blackfriars
Cambridgeshire
A medieval friary (a community of friars, an order that lived among the towns instead of apart from them) suppressed in 1538 and built over by a Ca…
- Near Cambridge
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Fortified place · Medieval
Cambridge Castle
Cambridgeshire
A single earthen mound on the city's highest ground is all that survives of a royal fortress that Edward I once rebuilt at a cost topping £2,630 in…
- Near Cambridge
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Cambridge Museum of Technology
Cambridgeshire
This former municipal pumping station preserves an unusually complete account of how Cambridge handled sewage, refuse and public health from the la…
- Near Cambridge
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Sacred place · Medieval
Cambridge Whitefriars
Cambridgeshire
A single garden wall in a Cambridge college is all that remains visible of a Carmelite friary (the base of a mendicant order, whose members worked…
- Near Cambridge
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Sacred place · Medieval
Cammeringham Priory
Lincolnshire
Two rival Norman abbeys fought over ownership of this small house for decades: a dispute settled only in 1192: and today its entire physical trace…
- Near Cammeringham
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Campsey Priory
Suffolk
A house of Augustinian canonesses at Campsea Ashe, south-east of Wickham Market.
- Near Campsea Ashe
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Camus Cross
Angus
One of only two intact freestanding crosses surviving in eastern Scotland, its carving points to Irish monastic influence rather than the Viking le…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Candleston Castle
Bridgend
A fortified manor abandoned to the sand, spared the fate of neighbouring Kenfig Castle only by the extra few feet of ground it happened to stand on.
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cannington Camp
Somerset
A hilltop held through the Bronze Age, roughly 2500-800 BC, and the Iron Age, from about 800 BC until the Romans came - argued over as the site of…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Canon Island Abbey
County Clare
Canon Island Abbey preserves the ruins of an Augustinian community on the Shannon, tracing a medieval foundation, devastation, dissolution (Henry V…
- Near Inis Cealtra
- Some walking
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Buttercrambe Castle
North Yorkshire
A royal licence of 1200 ties this lost stronghold directly to King John, though little more than fragmentary earthworks now mark where it stood.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Cabra Castle
County Cavan
A nineteenth-century Cavan country house that took the name of an older ruined castle, moving from Ascendancy seat to restored hotel.
- Near Kingscourt
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Roman
Cadder
East Dunbartonshire
Cadder’s quarried-away fort survives through excavated headquarters, granaries and baths, preserving the evidence of a substantial Antonine Wall ga…
- Near Bishopbriggs
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Caerleon pipe burial
Newport
A broken lead pipe, 38 mm across and 99 cm long, once rose from a stone-lined grave to the surface of the ground. Its purpose was practical and uns…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Caernarfon Mithraeum
Gwynedd
The Caernarfon Mithraeum is a rare Roman mystery-cult temple near Segontium, identified from its distinctive architecture despite the loss of its s…
- Near Caernarfon
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Fortified place · Medieval
Caherkinmonwee Castle
County Galway
A working family home today, this five-storey tower house stood roofless for two centuries before a stonemason bought and rebuilt it by hand, nail…
- Near Kinvara
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Caister Roman Site
norfolk
A Saxon Shore fort built around AD 200 on the north side of an estuary that no longer exists: most of it now under modern housing, with a Saxon set…
- Near Caister-on-Sea
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Calf House
County Cavan
A Neolithic portal tomb: a tomb of upright stones carrying a single great capstone from the late Stone Age, about 4000–2500 BC in Britain: in Burre…
- Near Cavan
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Callanish II
Outer Hebrides
Seven thin standing stones rise from a ridge overlooking Loch Roag, on the western side of Lewis, set out in an ellipse measuring 21.6 by 18.9 metr…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Callanish III
Outer Hebrides
Two concentric ellipses of stone stand on the moor above Loch Roag on the Isle of Lewis, forming Callanish III: Gaelic name Cnoc Fillibhir Bheag. T…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Callanish VIII
Outer Hebrides
Four standing stones rise in a semicircle along a cliff edge on the southern side of Great Bernera, looking out over the narrow strait that separat…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Camulodunum
Essex
Camulodunum, modern Colchester, was Britain’s first Roman provincial capital and the successor to a vast Iron Age (from around 800 BC up to the Rom…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Cannington Priory
Somerset
A Benedictine nunnery of about 1138, dissolved in 1536 and afterwards turned into a mansion.
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