Sacred place · Medieval
Combermere Abbey
Cheshire
A rendered Gothic facade hides a genuine 1502 monastic roof timber frame: one of only three surviving hammerbeam roofs in Cheshire, still standing…
- Near Chester
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Combs Ditch
Dorset
Combs Ditch is a scheduled Dorset earthwork (a mound or ditch formed by moving soil, not by building) whose excavated sequence suggests an Iron Age…
- Near Charlton Marshall
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Fortified place · Medieval
Comlongon Castle
Dumfries and Galloway
Comlongon Castle is an exceptionally complete south-west Scottish tower house, where Murray lordship, rich internal defensive detail and a later ba…
- Near Newton Stewart
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Fortified place · Medieval
Compton Castle
Devon
Compton Castle combines a medieval manor, Tudor defensive front and the long Gilbert family history within a still-occupied National Trust property.
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Concangis
County Durham
A garrison of ex-soldiers left behind altars to war gods, sun gods, and Celtic deities alike, buried now beneath a modern town that grew directly o…
- Near Chester-le-Street
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Building or ruin · Roman
Condercum
Tyne and Wear
A life-size head of the local god Antenociticus came out of a temple here in 1862, wearing a Celtic neck torc.
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Coney's Castle
Dorset
Coney’s Castle is a protected defended settlement on a narrow Dorset ridge, dating from roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest. Its ramparts, late…
- Near Morecombelake
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Coneybury Henge
Wiltshire
A vanished henge: a prehistoric earthwork of bank and ditch enclosing a circular space, with the ditch inside the bank: whose ditch enclosed a timb…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Cong Abbey
County Mayo
A High King built his last home here and died within its walls, and its greatest treasure, the Cross of Cong, took its name from this riverside rui…
- Near Cong
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Conisbrough Castle
South Yorkshire
A private tower built to flaunt rank rather than defend it: six buttresses ring the drum-shaped keep in a design found nowhere else in England.
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Conishead Priory
Cumbria
A medieval hospital reborn three times over: as an Augustinian priory, a vast Victorian mansion, and a miners' convalescent home: before becoming,…
- Near Ulverston
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Conwy Castle
Conwy
Conwy Castle is an exceptionally complete Edwardian fortress and royal residence, built with its walled town during the conquest of Wales. Its abbe…
- Near Conwy
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Conwy town walls
Conwy
Conwy’s town walls form one of Europe’s most complete medieval defensive circuits, built with the castle to enclose Edward I’s new town.
- Near Conwy
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Conygar Hillfort
Somerset
A triangular fort with three feet of bank left on one side, half a mile from the M5.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Cook Street Gate
West Midlands
One of only two of Coventry's original twelve medieval town gates to survive: and the only one a road still runs through.
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Cookhill Priory
Worcestershire
A Cistercian nunnery so poor it was repeatedly excused royal taxation now survives as a farmhouse holding a recording studio and a tax case that re…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Coolcoulaghta Standing Stones
County Cork
A Bronze Age (the period from about 2500 to 800 BC) stone pair near Durrus that was removed and then accurately reinstated after local protest, pre…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Coolhull Castle
County Wexford
A tower house and hall house fused into a single building, still guarded by a murder-hole and a corner bartizan: a defensive pairing that survives…
- Near Wellingtonbridge
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Cooling Castle
Kent
Cooling Castle is an innovative 14th-century Thames-estuary fortress, unusually built for gunpowder weapons and arranged as two independently defen…
- Near Cooling
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Sacred place · Medieval
Coombe Abbey
Warwickshire
Coombe is Warwickshire’s largest medieval Cistercian house, whose unusual survival inside a Tudor country house lets the monastery’s fabric remain…
- Near Coombe Fields
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Corbridge Vicar's Pele
Northumberland
Corbridge Vicar’s Pele is a compact defensive vicarage built with stone from nearby Roman Coria, linking medieval border security directly to the t…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Corby Castle
Cumbria
Behind its confident Regency facade survives a 13th-century Salkeld tower and a cluster of Grade I listed follies: caves, a cascade, a garden templ…
- Near Carlisle
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Sacred place · Medieval
Corcomroe Abbey
County Clare
Corcomroe Abbey is a Cistercian ruin in the Burren whose exceptional Gothic carving, royal tomb and long record of monastic adaptation show how a r…
- Near Ballyvaughan
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Corfe Castle
Dorset
Corfe Castle is an exceptional early stone Norman fortress whose royal rebuilding, Lady Mary Bankes’s Civil War defence and Parliamentarian demolit…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Corgarff Castle
Aberdeenshire
Burned three times over two centuries in family feuds and Jacobite risings, the tower was finally rebuilt as a government barracks to police the pa…
- Near Corgarff
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Coria (Corbridge)
Northumberland
Coria was a key Roman fort and town at the meeting of Dere Street, the Stanegate (the Roman road running behind Hadrian's Wall), and the Tyne, wher…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Corinium Dobunnorum
Gloucestershire
Its 2nd-century walls enclosed the second-largest city in Roman Britain, and its forum and basilica were bigger than any other in the province bar…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Cornworthy Priory
Devon
Cornworthy Priory preserves the record of an Augustinian nunnery whose post-Dissolution (Henry VIII's closure of the monasteries in the 1530s) esta…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Corrimony chambered cairn
Highland
One of the best-preserved Clava cairns in the Highlands, its passage still roofed by the original cup-marked capstone and its burial chamber found…
- Near Drumnadrochit
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Cotherstone Castle
County Durham
A small County Durham motte-and-bailey (an early Norman castle of a timber tower on an earth mound, with a walled yard alongside) whose remaining m…
- Near Cotherstone
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cotley Castle
Devon
Cotley Castle is a large hill fort from the period from roughly 800 BC to the Roman conquest, on the Haldon Hills ridge, set on high ground near Du…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Cotton Fort
Dorset
Cotton Fort marks a now-lost coastal defence at Melcombe, where scarce evidence preserves the outline of an early modern rampart (the raised bank t…
- Near Weymouth
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Coventry Castle
West Midlands
A royal prisoner and a monastery's expulsion both happened on this one plot: the castle itself is gone, but its surviving tower still carries both…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Coverham Abbey
North Yorkshire
A knight's stone effigy still leans against a garden wall here, carved with a stag hunt at his feet: the last fragment of a community twice founded…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cow Castle
Somerset
An isolated hilltop in Exmoor ringed by a single bank and ditch, west-south-west of Exford.
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Cow Cave
Devon
Cow Cave is a scheduled limestone cave at Chudleigh Rocks containing significant Paleolithic deposits and investigated in a major 2016 excavation.
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Coxall Knoll
Shropshire
An Iron Age defended settlement on a 262-metre summit at the Shropshire and Herefordshire boundary.
- Near Bucknell
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Coxford Priory
Norfolk
Coxford Priory is a small but legible Augustinian foundation whose move from East Rudham to Coxford records how a twelfth-century community reshape…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Craggaunowen
County Clare
Craggaunowen combines a sixteenth-century tower house with an open-air archaeological museum, using reconstructed Irish buildings and boats to inte…
- Near Quin
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Craig Gwrtheyrn
Carmarthenshire
A hillfort whose ramparts still carry the name of Vortigern, the warlord blamed for inviting the Anglo-Saxons into Britain, burned here in legend b…
- Near Llandeilo
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Craig Phadrig
Highland
Its stone rampart was fused to glass by fire in the 4th century, and tradition: never proven: casts it as the seat where a Pictish (of the Picts, t…
- Near Inverness
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Craig Rhiwarth
Powys
One of the highest hill forts in Wales, on a summit that also carries the remains of slate quarrying.
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Craig Ty-Isaf
Neath Port Talbot
Craig Ty-Isaf is a compact but well-defined scheduled hillfort, an Iron Age: the centuries before Rome arrived: settlement defended by banks and di…
- Near Baglan
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Craig-y-Nos Castle
Powys
An opera singer's private estate with its own theatre, its own railway carriage and its own electricity: later a tuberculosis sanatorium for sixty…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Craigievar Castle
Aberdeenshire
A merchant's Baltic trading fortune built a seven-storey pink tower whose plasterwork ceilings rank among Scotland's finest, and whose silhouette r…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Craigmillar Castle
City of Edinburgh
Craigmillar Castle is one of Scotland's best-preserved medieval castles, combining a Preston tower house and defensive courtyards with the pivotal…
- Near Edinburgh
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Craigs Dolmen
County Antrim
Despite its name, this is not a dolmen at all but the remains of a three-chambered passage tomb, its huge capstone still resting on seven upright s…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Crail Castle
Fife
Crail Castle survives mostly as a moat and a short wall, but its records connect a vanished royal castle to the early history of one of Fife’s medi…
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Fortified place · Roman
Cramond Roman Fort
City of Edinburgh
Cramond Roman Fort preserves evidence of Rome's Antonine and Severan campaigns at the River Almond, including inscriptions, a long-used road and th…
- Near Cramond
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cranbrook Castle
Devon
Cranbrook Castle is an Iron Age (from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest) hill fort on a high Devon hilltop overlooking the Teign valley and ne…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cranmore Castle
Devon
Cranmore Castle is a large enclosure above Tiverton, dating from from about 800 BC until the Romans came, whose unusual siting raises important que…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Craswall Priory
Herefordshire
Built for the Order of Grandmont in the 1220s, Craswall Priory's surviving ruins are now so fragile that Historic England lists them among heritage…
- Near Craswall
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Crathes Castle
Aberdeenshire
Beneath a 16th-century Burnett tower house lies Warren Field, where pits dug some 10,000 years ago form what analysis in 2013 identified as the wor…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Crayke Castle
North Yorkshire
A 15th-century tower house whose foundations conceal a monastic site and a motte-and-bailey (an early Norman castle of a timber tower on an earth m…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Creake Abbey
Norfolk
Creake Abbey is a Grade I Augustinian ruin where an almshouse became an abbey, medieval charitable care endured, and a 1506 epidemic abruptly ended…
- Near North Creake
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Credenhill Camp
Herefordshire
One of the largest hillforts in the West Midlands, its ramparts sheltered a working timber settlement for over three centuries and later gave a Sax…
- Near Hereford
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Creech Hill
Somerset
A Romano-Celtic temple on the highest ground at Lamyatt Beacon, in use from AD 250 to 375, and a hill fort at the other end of the same hill.
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Creevelea Abbey
County Leitrim
The last Franciscan friary, a house of friars, founded in Ireland before Henry VIII's closure of the monasteries later ran a hedge school where pio…
- Near Dromahair
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Cresswell Castle
Pembrokeshire
Three buildings on the bank of the River Cresswell that once made a fortified manorial complex around a rectangular court.
- Near Carew
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Cresswell Pele Tower
Northumberland
Cresswell Pele Tower is a well-preserved three-storey response to Border Reiver risk whose defensible stair, altered access, and recent new roof ma…
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Creswell Crags
Derbyshire
Its cave walls carry the northernmost Ice Age art yet found in Europe, engraved by people who timed their work to the one shaft of sunlight that re…
- Near Bakewell
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Fortified place · Medieval
Crewkerne Castle
Somerset
A hilltop called a castle since 1839, which may be a Norman motte, a manor house, or somebody's folly.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Criccieth Castle
Gwynedd
Criccieth Castle is a Welsh-built coastal stronghold later adapted by Edward I, where a nearly full-height twin gatehouse overlooks the ruins of a…
- Near Criccieth
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Crichton Castle
Midlothian
Crichton Castle preserves the rise and fall of two powerful Scottish families, a Reformation (the sixteenth-century closure of the monasteries)-era…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Crickhowell Castle
Powys
Ruined castle walls on a spur above Crickhowell, at the meeting of a stream and the River Usk.
- Some walking
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Crinan Canal
Argyll and Bute
Fifteen locks and two burst reservoirs of history connect Loch Gilp to the Sound of Jura, sparing ships the long, exposed passage around the Mull o…
- Near Crinan
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Croft Ambrey
Herefordshire
Its two gateways were rebuilt so often over six centuries that archaeologists counted twenty successive sets of gateposts: among the most heavily r…
- Near Yarpole
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Roman
Crofton Roman Villa
Greater London
A working Roman farmhouse rebuilt across 260 years survives with its floors and heating intact, unearthed by accident beneath a council driveway me…
- Near Orpington
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Fortified place · Medieval
Crom Castle
County Fermanagh
Crom Castle layers a Plantation stronghold, resistance to two Jacobite sieges, and a nineteenth-century country house across an Upper Lough Erne es…
- Near Newtownbutler
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Building or ruin · Roman
Cromwell House
Greater London
Behind its carved brick front stands the finest surviving oak staircase of its kind in London, and for 74 years the house was the first Jewish-owne…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Cromwell's Castle
Cornwall
A Civil War gun tower on Tresco, built to bar hostile ships from New Grimsby harbour and later enlarged for a new imperial conflict.
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Crooke Preceptory
County Waterford
A ruined church whose thick, shell-flecked mortar and chiselled quoins still show the hand of masons working for an order that once held both Templ…
- Near Waterford
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Crookston Castle
Glasgow City
The only medieval castle still standing within Glasgow's boundaries, and the very first property the National Trust for Scotland ever acquired.
- Near Gloucester
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Fortified place · Medieval
Croom Castle
County Limerick
Two broken tower walls at a bend in the River Maigue mark a fortress that gave the FitzGeralds of Kildare their cry, Crom Abú: ‘Croom for ever’.
- Near Croom
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Croome Court
Worcestershire
The house served as Capability Brown's first architectural commission, then later a Catholic school, the Hare Krishna movement's UK headquarters, a…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Cross Bath
Somerset
A bath fed by rain that fell on the Mendips and spent its journey four kilometres underground: and a royal birth that got a monument for it.
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Crosskirk Broch
Highland
A broch built inside an older promontory fort, fully excavated and then bulldozed into the sea in 1972: it survives only as a record, not a ruin.
- Near Reay
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Crossraguel Abbey
South Ayrshire
A ruined Cluniac monastery near Maybole that still keeps its church, covered walkways and dovecote.
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Sacred place · Medieval
Crowland Abbey
Lincolnshire
A hermit's cell on a Fen island grew into a Benedictine house that produced a disputed medieval chronicle, a skull-relic stolen and later returned…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Croxden Abbey
Staffordshire
The monks of this abbey, a monastery headed by an abbot, barricaded themselves inside for sixteen weeks in 1319 against their own patron, and paid…
- Near Croxden
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Croxton Abbey
Leicestershire
An abbot of Croxton embalmed King John's body in 1216 and buried his heart in the abbey (a religious community led by an abbot) church, a rare dire…
- Near Croxton Kerrial
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Fortified place · Roman
Croy Hill
North Lanarkshire
Croy Hill is the Antonine Wall’s exceptional unditched sector, combining difficult geology, frontier forts, a bathhouse and rich religious finds.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Crug Eryr Castle
Powys
A Welsh prince's castle where the Archbishop of Canterbury stopped in March 1188 to recruit for the Third Crusade.
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Crug Hywel
Powys
An Iron Age fort on a flat-topped hill that gave Crickhowell its name: though the name may not have belonged to the hill first.
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Cruggleton Castle
Dumfries and Galloway
Cruggleton Castle is a rare multi-period coastal stronghold where excavations revealed occupation from the Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman…
- Near Newton Stewart
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Fortified place · Medieval
Cuckney Castle
Nottinghamshire
Cuckney is a short-lived lordly experiment whose low castle mound and faint enclosed yard still meet the edge of the parish churchyard.
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Cuckoo Stone
Wiltshire
A squat sarsen lying forgotten in a field turned out, on excavation, to have replaced a wooden post on the very same spot before 2000 BC: a rare ph…
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Prehistoric
Culbone Stone
Somerset
An early medieval cross-marked stone found lying flat in wartime and stood up again: with one arm of its cross running outside the circle.
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Cullahill Castle
County Laois
A MacGillapatrick tower house with a Sheela na Gig on its outer wall, including patterned stonework around its mullioned windows and traces of an O…
- Near Cullahill
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Combwell Priory
Kent
Combwell Priory records a rare institutional change from Premonstratensian abbey (a religious community led by an abbot) to Augustinian priory, fol…
- Near Goudhurst
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Condolden
Cornwall
Tintagel parish's highest point, where an unexcavated Bronze Age barrow: roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking spread, and a prehistoric burial mo…
- Near Tintagel
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Corick
County Londonderry
A stone circle and stone row stand together here, close enough to be read as one deliberate arrangement rather than two separate monuments.
- Near Magherafelt
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Roman
Cowbridge (Roman town)
The Vale of Glamorgan
Bricks stamped by the Second Legion, recovered from a Roman bath house beneath the modern town of Cowbridge, are among the earliest hints that sold…
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Craddock Moor stone circle
Cornwall
Sixteen fallen stones and a single possible stump, all so overgrown that the circle ranks among the harder monuments to locate on Bodmin Moor, make…
- Near Penzance
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Cranborne Priory
Dorset
Cranborne Priory preserves a major thousand-year religious foundation in Dorset, whose surviving priory church combines Norman fabric, medieval pai…
- Near Cranborne
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Crawley Edge Cairns
County Durham
A Weardale cairnfield where Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first spread) burial practice and evidence of early field clearance o…
- Near Bishop Auckland
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Creevekeeran Castle
County Armagh
Creevekeeran Castle preserves a rare three-storey wall on a rocky County Armagh outcrop, a protected fragment whose survival defines the site.
- Near Newry
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Fortified place · Medieval
Crevenish Castle
Fermanagh
Crevenish Castle is a rare Plantation-period Fermanagh house-and-bawn whose brief history traces settler ambition, rebellion-era transfer and rapid…
- Near Enniskillen
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Cross at Croes Llwyd Farm
monmouthshire
One of only two crosses in Monmouthshire to keep its head through the iconoclasm of 1643, out of seventy-nine: and the survival is credited to its…
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Crowle Stone
Lincolnshire
Crowle Stone is a richly carved Anglo-Saxon cross shaft with a runic inscription, preserved through reuse in the Norman rebuilding of St Oswald’s C…
- Near Crowle
- Easy path
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