Fortified place · Prehistoric
Caus Castle
Shropshire
A ruined castle on the Long Mountain foothills, overlooking the route from Shrewsbury to Montgomery.
- Rough ground
The directory
Explore every place
Page 13 of 47 in the full directory.
Browsing 100 places — search and the map cover the whole directory.
-
-
Fortified place · Medieval
Caverswall Castle
Staffordshire
An early seventeenth-century mansion built in castellar style inside the walls of a thirteenth-century castle.
- Near Caverswall
- Some walking
-
Fortified place · Medieval
Cawdor Castle
Highland
A tower house said to have been built around a living holly tree, its site chosen by tradition after a gold-laden donkey lay down to rest beneath it.
-
Fortified place · Medieval
Cawood Castle
North Yorkshire
In 1465 a single enthronement feast at Cawood consumed 104 oxen and 25,000 gallons of wine: a display of archiepiscopal wealth rivalling a royal co…
- Easy path
-
Building or ruin · Roman
Cawthorne Camp
North Yorkshire
A Roman training ground rather than a frontier post: two forts and an oddly-planned camp built, some argue, purely to drill soldiers in the art of…
- Rough ground
-
Fortified place · Iron Age
Cefn Carnedd
Powys
A six-hectare hillfort: a defended hilltop settlement of the Iron Age: that grew from a much smaller one, and a candidate for the site of Caratacus…
- Near Caersws
- Rough ground
-
Building or ruin · Medieval
Cefn Caves
Denbighshire
Four linked passages cut by a long-vanished course of the River Elwy have yielded human and animal bone reaching back to the Old Stone Age, among t…
- Rough ground
-
Tomb or burial place · Medieval
Cefn Golau Cholera Cemetery
Blaenau Gwent
Cefn Golau Cholera Cemetery is the only surviving cholera cemetery in South Wales, preserving the human cost of three nineteenth-century epidemics…
- Near Tredegar
- Rough ground
-
Fortified place · Prehistoric
Cefnllys Castle
Powys
A new castle built here by Roger Mortimer helped push Llywelyn ap Gruffudd into refusing fealty to Edward I: and into the war that ended Welsh inde…
- Near Llandrindod Wells
- Rough ground
-
Ancient place · Medieval
Cementation Furnace, Sheffield
South Yorkshire
The last of Sheffield's hundreds of cone-shaped steel furnaces to survive with its structure intact, a solitary reminder of an industry that once r…
-
Crossing or structure · Medieval
Cenarth Bridge
Carmarthenshire
A late-Georgian river crossing built with two deliberate holes through its stonework, letting floodwater pass rather than overwhelm it: a trick its…
- Near Cenarth
- Easy path
-
Building or ruin · Pictish & early medieval
Cerne Abbas Giant
Dorset
The Cerne Giant is one of England’s best-known hill figures, a monumental chalk image whose striking design and unresolved origins continue to driv…
- Near Cerne Abbas
- Some walking
-
Sacred place · Medieval
Cerne Abbey
Dorset
Cerne Abbey was a major Benedictine house founded in 987, whose surviving guest house, porch, barns and gatehouse fabric preserve a millennium of m…
- Near Cerne Abbas
- Easy path
-
Fortified place · Medieval
Cessford Castle
Scottish Borders
A Border Reiver stronghold whose name outlived it: the ruined tower still lends its title to the Duke of Roxburghe, who is Baron Ker of Cessford to…
-
Sacred place · Medieval
Chacombe Priory
Northamptonshire
A minor Augustinian house whose closing is caught in the visiting commissioner's own uneasy words: and whose burial ground held three generations o…
-
Fortified place · Iron Age
Chalbury Hillfort
Dorset
Chalbury Hillfort is a strategically placed settlement enclosure from the centuries before Rome arrived, with storage pits, hut platforms, burial m…
- Near Bincombe
- Some walking
-
Sacred place · Roman
Chalice Well
Somerset
A spring that has run at 25,000 gallons a day without once failing, through droughts, and stains everything it touches red.
- Easy path
-
Sacred place · Medieval
Chapel Finian and Chapel Finian Well
Dumfries and Galloway
Only the foundations remain of Chapel Finian, a small chapel built between the 10th and 11th centuries on an old raised beach at Corwall Port, on t…
- Near Newton Stewart
-
Sacred place · Medieval
Chapel of St Fyndoca
Argyll and Bute
A carved grave-slab bearing arms for a galley and a boar's head ties this island ruin to the Campbells of Lochow, in a graveyard still used eight c…
- Near Cladich
- Rough ground
-
Sacred place · Medieval
Chapel of St Non
Pembrokeshire
Roofless walls facing the coast south of St Davids, beside a holy well, on ground tradition names as a birthplace.
- Near St Davids
- Easy path
-
Fortified place · Medieval
Charleville Castle
County Offaly
Roofless from 1968 until restoration began in 1973, this earl's Gothic folly is now better known for ghost hunts and film crews than for the grande…
- Near Tullamore
- Easy path
-
Fortified place · Medieval
Charlton Castle
Shropshire
A manor fortified by royal licence in 1316, lived in by the Lords of Powys for two centuries, and now too overgrown to read.
- Rough ground
-
Building or ruin · Roman
Charterhouse (Roman town)
Somerset
The only amphitheatre in England at a lead mine: 32 metres by 24, its seating banks still standing 4.5 metres above the arena floor.
-
Fortified place · Iron Age
Charterhouse Camp
Somerset
A single-rampart hillfort on Mendip beside a Roman town: and a candidate for the lost settlement of Iscalis.
- Some walking
-
Sacred place · Medieval
Charterhouse, Kingston upon Hull
East Riding of Yorkshire
A working almshouse since the 14th century, its chapel holding the tomb of a duke whose widow, Alice Chaucer, insisted he be buried here rather tha…
-
Fortified place · Medieval
Chartley Castle
Staffordshire
A ruin north of Stowe-by-Chartley, on the estate where Mary, Queen of Scots was imprisoned in 1585.
- Near Chartley
- Easy path
-
Sacred place · Medieval
Chatteris Abbey
Cambridgeshire
One of a small number of English monasteries built specifically for Benedictine nuns, and one where parish worship inside the abbey (a religious co…
- Near Chatteris
-
Fortified place · Iron Age
Cheddar Gorge
Somerset
A limestone gorge in the Mendips holding the show caves where Britain's oldest complete skeleton was found.
- Some walking
-
Building or ruin · Roman
Cheddar Palace
Somerset
A royal hunting lodge where the great council of England met three times in the tenth century: now marked out in concrete slabs on a school field.
-
Building or ruin · Roman
Chedworth Roman Villa
Gloucestershire
A 2017 discovery showed new mosaic work here was laid after AD 424: proof that Roman-style luxury and craft skill persisted in Britain decades long…
- Near Gloucester
- Some walking
-
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Cheetham Close
Greater Manchester
Cheetham Close is a damaged Early Bronze Age ritual landscape near Greater Manchester, where a broken stone circle, ring cairn (a mound of piled st…
- Near Turton
- Rough ground
-
Fortified place · Medieval
Cheney Longville Castle
Shropshire
A courtyard manor fortified by licence in 1394, shelled and captured in the Civil War, and held by one family since 1745.
-
Fortified place · Medieval
Chepstow Castle
Monmouthshire
Chepstow Castle is Britain’s oldest surviving post-Roman stone fortification, a defining Marcher stronghold above the Wye whose fabric spans Norman…
- Near Chepstow
- Some walking
-
Fortified place · Medieval
Chepstow Port Wall
Monmouthshire
A single controlled gateway through 1,100 metres of stone wall let a medieval lord tax every trader entering Chepstow's market and port at once.
- Easy path
-
Fortified place · Iron Age
Cherbury Camp
Oxfordshire
An Iron Age enclosure larger than Uffington Castle yet built on flat, marshy ground with no hill in sight: and the unlikely birthplace of the Pusey…
-
Sacred place · Medieval
Chertsey Abbey
Surrey
A Benedictine monastery at Chertsey, dedicated to St Peter.
- Near Chertsey
- Easy path
-
Fortified place · Medieval
Chester Castle
Cheshire
A single walled site holds a Norman motte-and-bailey (an early Norman castle of a timber tower on an earth mound, with a walled yard alongside) ori…
- Easy path
-
Sacred place · Medieval
Chester Cathedral
Cheshire
A working cathedral built in three distinct campaigns over five centuries, its Norman core still visible beneath a Gothic rebuild that took more th…
- Easy path
-
Building or ruin · Roman
Chester city walls
Cheshire
Britain's most complete Roman and medieval town wall circuit, still walkable almost end to end: a defence rebuilt, breached and patched across nine…
- Some walking
-
Carved stone · Medieval
Chester High Cross
Cheshire
A cross smashed by Parliamentarian soldiers in the Civil War, its scattered pieces quietly preserved for three centuries before being reassembled a…
- Easy path
-
Crossing or structure · Medieval
Chester New Bridge
County Durham
A worn parapet inscription still marks Charles Swinburne's Leap, the fatal fall of a horse and rider, on a crossing whose own age is disputed by tw…
- Near Chester-le-Street
-
Sacred place · Medieval
Chester Priory
Cheshire
Chester Priory records the presence of a Benedictine community of nuns in medieval Cheshire, even though the available account preserves only its p…
- Near Chester
-
Building or ruin · Roman
Chester Roman Amphitheatre
Cheshire
Britain’s largest excavated Roman amphitheatre preserves the arena where Deva Victrix’s legionary city staged military display, ritual and public s…
- Near Chester
- Easy path
-
Building or ruin · Roman
Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Derbyshire
A short-lived Roman garrison gave a Derbyshire market town its very name, and its church spire has leaned crooked for so long the Devil is blamed f…
- Near Bakewell
-
Fortified place · Iron Age
Chesters Hill Fort
East Lothian
A settlement of some twenty roundhouses survives inside its ramparts and ditches: Historic Environment Scotland rates it one of the best-preserved…
- Some walking
-
Building or ruin · Roman
Chesterton Windmill
Warwickshire
A Grade I windmill of 1632–33 carried on six stone arches, long claimed as an observatory: the estate accounts say otherwise.
- Near Chesterton
- Some walking
-
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Chestnuts Long Barrow
Kent
Chestnuts Long Barrow is a ruined Medway Megalith whose chamber held collective Neolithic (the closing Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) burials, po…
-
Fortified place · Medieval
Cheveley Castle
Cambridgeshire
The only castle of its kind ever built in Cambridgeshire, raised by a London Lord Mayor as a moated hunting lodge rather than a fortress.
- Near Cheveley
-
Building or ruin · Roman
Chew Green
Northumberland
Chew Green is a complex Roman military landscape on Dere Street near the Scottish border, preserving camps, fortlets, a fort, and a section of road…
-
Building or ruin · Medieval
Chichele College
Northamptonshire
Its walled garden, laid out in 1425, is a rare survival from an English monastic-era foundation, and the chapel it once served is still used for co…
-
Fortified place · Medieval
Chichester Castle
West Sussex
Two kings ordered it destroyed. The first order was ignored, the French took it, and the second was carried out.
- Easy path
-
Sacred place · Medieval
Chichester Cathedral
West Sussex
The seat of the Bishop of Chichester since 1075, when the bishopric was moved into the city.
- Easy path
-
Building or ruin · Medieval
Chichester Guildhall
West Sussex
Not a guildhall at all. It is the east end of a Franciscan church, and one of the very few such buildings in England still under a roof.
- Easy path
-
Building or ruin · Roman
Chichester to Silchester Way
West Sussex
Entirely lost, with not even a Saxon place name to mark it, until aerial photographs of Milland in 1949 showed the outline of a Roman inn.
- Some walking
-
Sacred place · Medieval
Chicksands Priory
Bedfordshire
One of only ten English religious houses where nuns and canons lived side by side: later a Cold War listening post hidden inside a medieval priory,…
- Easy path
-
Fortified place · Medieval
Chiddingstone Castle
Kent
Chiddingstone Castle preserves a Kent country-house site transformed from a Tudor timber dwelling into a Gothic Revival mansion, later becoming Den…
- Near Canterbury
-
Fortified place · Medieval
Chilham Castle
Kent
Chilham Castle pairs a still-inhabited 1174 Norman keep (the castle's main tower, and its strongest building) with a notable 1616 Jacobean manor, a…
- Near Canterbury
-
Fortified place · Medieval
Chillingham Castle
Northumberland
Chillingham Castle charts the transformation of a fortified Anglo-Scottish border stronghold into a restored historic house, while its grounds reta…
-
Fortified place · Iron Age
Chilworth Ring
Hampshire
A prehistoric hillfort survives only as the shape of a suburban street: its single rampart (the raised bank thrown up around a fortified enclosure)…
- Near Chilworth
- Easy path
-
Building or ruin · Roman
Chingle Hall
Lancashire
Chingle Hall is a moated thirteenth-century manor near Preston, retaining its oak door and a sixteenth-century bridge across the surviving moat.
- Near Whittingham
-
Fortified place · Medieval
Chipchase Castle
Northumberland
Chipchase Castle preserves a massive fourteenth-century pele tower within a Jacobean mansion, recording the conversion of a border defensive house…
-
Sacred place · Medieval
Chipley Priory
Suffolk
A taxation roll of 1291 puts this small religious house at under £5 a year. By 1455 the buildings were ruins, and a stone coffin from the site now…
- Near Poslingford
-
Fortified place · Medieval
Chirk Castle
Wrexham
A castle lost to a royal court rather than a siege: and a parkland that still hides a stretch of Offa's Dyke, rediscovered by archaeologists only i…
- Easy path
-
Fortified place · Iron Age
Chiselbury
Wiltshire
An Iron Age ring fort still flanked by two mysterious cross dykes built to block the very ridge route it commands: with WWI regimental badges later…
- Near Fovant
- Some walking
-
Fortified place · Iron Age
Cholesbury Camp
Buckinghamshire
A double ring of beech-crowned earthworks still nearly a mile round, with the parish church and a Tudor manor sitting inside defences first thrown…
- Near Cholesbury
- Some walking
-
Sacred place · Medieval
Christ Church, Oxford
Oxfordshire
The only academic institution in the world that is also a cathedral, Christ Church became simultaneously a college chapel and a bishop's seat by ro…
-
Sacred place · Medieval
Christ the King, Cockfosters
Greater London
Its plain reinforced concrete design is one of England's earliest buildings shaped by the continental Liturgical Movement, raised for a monastic co…
- Near Gloucester
- Easy path
-
Fortified place · Medieval
Christchurch Castle
Dorset
Christchurch Castle preserves Norman control of a key river crossing, with ruined keep walls and the adjacent Constable’s House forming an exceptio…
- Near Christchurch
- Easy path
-
Sacred place · Medieval
Christchurch Priory
Dorset
Christchurch Priory is one of England’s longest parish churches, preserving a thousand-year sequence from Saxon church through Augustinian priory t…
- Near Christchurch
- Easy path
-
Fortified place · Iron Age
Chûn Castle
Cornwall
A large Cornish hillfort: an Iron Age settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground, from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest: beside…
- Near Pendeen
- Some walking
-
Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Church Hill, West Sussex
West Sussex
John Pull dug six of its thirty-six shafts across two campaigns interrupted by the Second World War.
- Near Findon
- Easy path
-
Sacred place · Medieval
Church Island (Valentia Harbour)
County Kerry
On the south-west shore of a one-acre island in Valentia Harbour stands an ogham stone inscribed not only with letters but with a Maltese cross, a…
- Near Valentia
- Rough ground
-
Sacred place · Medieval
Church of St Mary and All Saints, Whalley
Lancashire
Whalley’s Grade I church links Anglo-Saxon crosses, a thirteenth-century parish church and an exceptional collection of medieval and later furnishi…
- Near Whalley
- Easy path
-
Sacred place · Medieval
Church of St Morwenna and St John the Baptist, Morwenstow
Cornwall
Cornwall's most northerly parish church combines Norman fabric, Parson Hawker's harvest tradition and a churchyard shaped by the wreck of the Caled…
- Near Penzance
- Rough ground
-
Sacred place · Medieval
Church of St Peter, Holton-le-Clay
Lincolnshire
A carved wooden mouse on the altar rail, a Saxon tower arch, and a separately scheduled medieval cross all survive within one small parish churchyard.
- Near Holton-le-Clay
- Easy path
-
Sacred place · Medieval
Church of the Holy Rude
Stirling
One of only three churches still in use in Britain where a monarch has been crowned: and for 280 years it was two churches, divided by a wall down…
- Near Stirling
-
Building or ruin · Roman
Chysauster Ancient Village
Cornwall
A remarkably legible Romano-British (Britain under Roman rule, AD 43–410) farming village where rows of courtyard houses preserve the layout of a c…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
-
Fortified place · Medieval
Cilgerran Castle
Pembrokeshire
Two stone towers crowning the gorge above the Teifi, the surviving core of a castle begun in banked earth.
- Near Cilgerran
- Some walking
-
Sacred place · Medieval
Cirencester Abbey
Gloucestershire
A 1254 valuation put its income from nineteen granted churches alone at £350 a year, over half a million pounds today, funding one of England's mos…
- Near Gloucester
- Easy path
.jpg?width=800)
.jpg?width=800)
.JPG?width=800)
More places
Briefer entries: recorded and worth knowing, with fuller pages to come.
-
Ancient place · Prehistoric
Cefn Bryn
Swansea
Over sixty stone heaps lie under the bracken. Most are field clearance; three excavated north-west of Arthur's Stone are burial monuments.
- Near Reynoldston
- Some walking
-
Fortified place · Medieval
Chalgrave Castle
Bedfordshire
A timber stronghold raised in two building phases around 1086, abandoned within two centuries, then excavated and levelled until nothing above grou…
- Near Chalgrave
-
Building or ruin · Roman
Chanctonbury Ring
West Sussex
A defended hilltop crowning Chanctonbury Hill, with burial mounds and dykes around it recording activity from four thousand years ago onwards.
- Some walking
-
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Chapel Carn Brea
Cornwall
A granite hill where Neolithic tombs: from the late Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC in Britain: and Bronze Age remains: roughly 2500–800 BC: share…
- Near St Just
- Some walking
-
Fortified place
Chapman's Pool
Dorset
Chapman’s Pool combines Jurassic Coast geology, a short-lived nineteenth-century lifeboat station and a Royal Marines memorial landscape above the…
- Near Worth Matravers
-
Building or ruin · Medieval
Charlcotte Furnace
shropshire
Richard Knight of Bringewood Ironworks was leasing this blast furnace as early as 1712, and it may have been running since the 1690s.
-
Fortified place · Medieval
Charlemont Fort
Armagh
Charlemont Fort was a strategically vital seventeenth-century Blackwater garrison, contested in Confederate and Williamite wars before its destruct…
- Near Charlemont
-
Sacred place · Medieval
Charley Priory
Leicestershire
Charley Priory records the fluid identity of a small medieval religious house: a Norman-linked gift, an independent three-monk hermitage, a later A…
- Near Charley
-
Sacred place · Medieval
Chester Carmelite Friary
Cheshire
Although no buildings survive, Chester’s Carmelite friary (the base of a mendicant order, whose members worked in the streets rather than behind wa…
- Easy path
-
Sacred place · Medieval
Chester Grey Friary
Cheshire
A house of Franciscan friars once stood within Chester's walls, part of the network of urban friaries that set the mendicant orders apart from the…
-
Crossing or structure · Roman
Chesters Bridge
Northumberland
Chesters Bridge preserves the massive eastern abutment of a Hadrian’s Wall crossing whose construction and recent reinterpretation reveal the North…
-
Sacred place · Medieval
Chibburn Preceptory
Northumberland
Chibburn Preceptory preserves the remains of a Hospitaller house whose medieval courtyard, defensive moat, and later reuse chart major changes in N…
-
Sacred place · Medieval
Chippenham Preceptory
Cambridgeshire
A religious house that endured from 1184 to 1540, spanning the entire era of the crusading military orders' presence in England before falling to H…
- Near Chippenham
-
Settlement · Iron Age
Chisenbury Camp
Wiltshire
Excavated pottery, worked stone and human burial remains now sit in Devizes Museum, the clearest surviving trace of an Iron Age (from around 800 BC…
- Near Upavon
-
Sacred place
Chithurst Buddhist Monastery
West Sussex
The first branch monastery of Wat Pah Pong established outside Thailand, founded in a West Sussex hamlet in 1979.
- Easy path
-
Sacred place · Medieval
Cholsey Abbey
Oxfordshire
An Anglo-Saxon monastery founded between 993 and 997 by King Æthelred.
- Near Cholsey
-
Sacred place · Medieval
Chudleigh Abbey
Devon
Chudleigh Abbey records a short but distinctive chapter in the long post-Dissolution (Henry VIII's closure of the monasteries in the 1530s) journey…
-
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Chûn Quoit
Cornwall
A remarkably intact Neolithic chamber tomb: from the closing Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC: whose capstone still stands in its original position…
- Near Pendeen
- Rough ground
-
Sacred place · Medieval
Church Island (Lough Currane)
County Kerry
Set into a block of sandstone in the ruined church on Church Island is a 12th-century engraving of a musician playing a bowed lyre, one of the more…
- Near Waterville
- Rough ground
-
Sacred place · Medieval
Church of St Mary and St Petroc, Bodmin
Cornwall
A former medieval monastic church in Bodmin whose modern Catholic community restored the Lateran canons to Cornwall after more than three centuries.
- Near Penzance
- Easy path
-
Building or ruin · Roman
Cilurnum
northumberland
The fort walls push north of Hadrian's Wall, with three main gates on the far side: built not to hold the frontier but to get cavalry through it qu…
.jpg?width=800)
_-_geograph.org.uk_-_809557.jpg?width=800)
No places match those filters.
Kinds of place
Ages