Crossing or structure · Medieval
East Farleigh Bridge
Kent
East Farleigh Bridge is a rare Grade I listed and scheduled medieval River Medway crossing whose four-arch ragstone structure, cutwaters and long a…
- Near East Farleigh
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Fortified place · Iron Age
East Myne
Somerset
Recorded as a hill fort of the Iron Age, roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest, and considered to be a deserted post-medieval farmstead, from the…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
East Orchard Castle
Vale of Glamorgan
Called a castle but never fortified as one: a manor house of the Berkerolles, destroyed in Llywelyn Bren's revolt and dismantled for its stone afte…
- Near St Athan
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Medieval
East Pool mine
Cornwall
A major Cornish copper and tin mine whose preserved beam engines make its long struggle with underground water visible within a World Heritage mini…
- Near Penzance
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Eastcotts Castle
Bedfordshire
A timber motte (the great earth mound at the heart of an early castle) thrown up on the Greensand Ridge to watch the Ouse valley below, now reduced…
- Near Cardington
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Easter Aquhorthies stone circle
Aberdeenshire
One of Scotland's best-preserved recumbent stone circles, and the only one where every stone still stands exactly where its Bronze Age (roughly 250…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Easthill stone circle
Dumfries and Galloway
Easthill's ring is short of a stone. Eight survive in an oval roughly three and three-quarter miles south-west of Dumfries, and a ninth is thought…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Eastington Manor Tower
Pembrokeshire
A medieval fortified house built against the threat of pirates now stands as the last survival of a village largely swallowed by an oil refinery.
- Near Rhoscrowther
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Fortified place · Medieval
Eastnor Castle
Herefordshire
A Regency fantasy of a medieval border stronghold, built by the architect of the British Museum and still the private home of the family that commi…
- Near Hereford
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Eaton Socon Castle
Cambridgeshire
A hastily raised civil-war stronghold whose earthworks still trace a Norman ringwork: a castle enclosure ringed by a bank, built without a motte: b…
- Near Eaton Socon
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Building or ruin · Roman
Eboracum
North Yorkshire
Eboracum grew from a Ninth Legion fortress into northern Roman Britain’s largest town and provincial capital, a place where emperors died and Const…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Ebsbury
Wiltshire
A hillside enclosure that yielded two buried Roman coin hoards, a Neolithic (the late Stone Age, about 4000–2500 BC in Britain) mace-head and six s…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Eccles Roman Villa
Kent
Eccles Roman Villa was an exceptionally large Medway Valley estate whose 135-plus rooms, mosaics, ornamental pool and repeatedly rebuilt bath suite…
- Near Canterbury
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Sacred place · Medieval
Ecclesfield Priory
South Yorkshire
A Yorkshire monastic chapel survived the closure of the monasteries disguised as a farmhouse, with its medieval fabric still intact behind a sevent…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Eccleshall Castle
Staffordshire
A bishop's castle taken in 1643 to find its defenders drunk or in the taverns and the bishop dead of a heart attack.
- Near Eccleshall
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Edburton Castle Ring
West Sussex
A protected castle site on Edburton Hill, with earthworks dating from soon after 1066.
- Near Edburton
- Some walking
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Edderton Cross Slab
Highland
One slab, two scenes: a plain ringed cross on one face, three processing horsemen beneath a cross on the other, recently raised to reveal riders bu…
- Near Edderton
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Eddisbury hill fort
Cheshire
The largest and most elaborately defended of Cheshire's seven hill forts, rebuilt, deliberately slighted by Rome, then reoccupied by settlers centu…
- Near Chester
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Edinburgh Castle
City of Edinburgh
One of Scotland's most important strongholds and a seat of royal power for centuries, Edinburgh Castle claims to be the most besieged place in Grea…
- Near Edinburgh
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Edington Priory
Wiltshire
A bishop's private chantry for his family's souls grew within seven years into a full monastic house, and its church still stands complete and in d…
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Edisford Bridge
Lancashire
Nine stone spans of mismatched ages and shapes, straddling the Ribble on a course fixed since at least 1339 and painted by Turner before 1799.
- Near Clitheroe
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Edlingham Castle
Northumberland
Edlingham Castle is a compact fortified manor guarding a western approach to Alnwick, where a cracked but substantial solar tower preserves the cha…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Edmond Castle
Cumbria
A country house reshaped twice by the Smirke architects, then pressed into service sheltering Czech wartime refugees and holding delinquent boys as…
- Near Penrith
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Fortified place · Medieval
Edzell Castle and Garden
Angus
Its walled garden is carved with the only known Scottish set of relief panels depicting planetary deities and the liberal arts, a Renaissance survi…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Egglestone Abbey
County Durham
A White Canons' house so poor it struggled to keep even twelve monks, yet its rebuilt church still stands on the Tees bank a century after its firs…
- Near Barnard Castle
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Egmere medieval settlement
Norfolk
Egmere is a scheduled deserted medieval village near Walsingham, where population decline, a ruined church, manor garden, village platforms and fis…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Egremont Castle
Cumbria
Its market tolls are said to have funded the founding of St Bees Priory - a castle whose revenue helped build one of Cumbria's great religious houses.
- Near Egremont
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Eildon Hill
Scottish Borders
Nearly 300 house platforms cut into a volcanic hilltop make this one of the largest hillforts known in Scotland: later crowned by a Roman signal to…
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Eilean Donan Castle
Highland
The castle photographed on countless shortbread tins is barely a century old: a 1930s recreation of a stronghold the Royal Navy blew apart in 1719.
- Near Inverness
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Fortified place · Medieval
Elcho Castle
Perth and Kinross
Nearly burned in 1773 by a crowd who found it full of grain being held back for export during a famine.
- Near Rhynd
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Sacred place · Medieval
Elder Well
Staffordshire
A spring in a metre-square sandstone box, dressed yearly with flowers and branches, and reckoned a cure for the eyes since Robert Plot listed it.
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Elgin Pillar
Moray
A tall granite Pictish (of the Picts, the people of northern and eastern Scotland from about AD 300 to 900) stone found buried beneath Elgin's old…
- Near Elgin
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Roman
Elginhaugh
Midlothian
Elginhaugh is the Roman Empire’s most completely excavated timber-built auxiliary fort, offering rare evidence for a short Flavian occupation, mixe…
- Near Dalkeith
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Elibank Castle
Scottish Borders
A 1511 royal charter tied one family's right to farmland to a promise to build in stone, and the Italianate terraced gardens later raised here rank…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Ellerton Priory (Swaledale)
North Yorkshire
Ellerton Priory is a rare Swaledale Cistercian-nuns’ site whose uncertain foundation, 1342 Scottish destruction, revealing 1536 dissolution (Henry…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ellesmere Castle
Shropshire
A Norman motte, the earthen mound a castle was raised on, that passed between English kings and Welsh princes for sixty years: and now has a bowlin…
- Near Ellesmere
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Elmley Castle (castle)
Worcestershire
A Norman stronghold whose ownership passed by marriage into the Earls of Warwick, on ground that may already have carried a defended hilltop settle…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Elsdon Castle
Northumberland
Elsdon Castle is Northumberland’s best-preserved medieval castle site, retaining a large mound and enclosed yard on a natural hill spur despite aba…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Elstow Abbey
Bedfordshire
A Norman nunnery founded by a niece of William the Conqueror whose abbesses fought lawsuits, defied bishops, and left a parish church built from th…
- Near Elstow
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Elsyng Palace
Greater London
Henry VIII visited this brick palace more often than almost any other house not his own, yet its location was lost for over three centuries until d…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Eltham Palace
Greater London
Eltham Palace combines a great medieval royal hall with one of Britain’s finest Art Deco homes, preserving the shift from Plantagenet and Tudor cou…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Elva Plain Stone Circle
Cumbria
One of only five true Cumbrian circles, its wide open ring on Elva Hill may once have tracked the midwinter sunset over the fells to the southwest.
- Near Millom
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Elvaston Castle
Derbyshire
A Gothic Revival mansion remodelled by James Wyatt now stands empty on England's at-risk register, its 20-year romantic garden once hailed as a 'Go…
- Near Bakewell
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Elworthy Barrows
Somerset
An unfinished defended settlement of the pre-Roman centuries, despite a name suggesting burial mounds.
- Near Wiveliscombe
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ely Castle
Cambridgeshire
A grassy mound beside the cathedral is all that survives of the stronghold William the Conqueror threw up to break the last English resistance hold…
- Near Ely
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Ely Cathedral
Cambridgeshire
A Norman crossing tower collapsed in 1322 and was replaced not with another square tower but with a unique timber-and-stone octagon, still held up…
- Near Ely
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
English Bicknor Castle
Gloucestershire
Held by one of the Anarchy's most powerful magnates, this castle escaped the destruction that levelled many others in that civil war: a survivor wi…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Ennis Friary
County Clare
Ennis Friary is a National Monument whose Franciscan ruins preserve six centuries of O'Brien patronage, Gaelic education, Reformation (the sixteent…
- Near Ennis
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Enniscorthy Castle
County Wexford
A Norman keep at the head of the River Slaney that changed hands between Norman lords, a Gaelic dynasty, Elizabethan planters, Cromwellian troops a…
- Near Enniscorthy
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Ermin Way
Wiltshire
A single road stitched together Gloucester, Cirencester and Silchester into one network, and a 2026 dig beneath the A417 showed the ground beside i…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Ermine Street
Lincolnshire
One stretch of this road ran so straight across Lincolnshire for thirty-three miles that Roman surveying and Anglo-Saxon settlement history can bot…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Errew Abbey
County Mayo
A monastery said to have drawn 1,400 students from across Europe once stood on this Lough Conn peninsula, and its story survives chiefly through th…
- Near Ballinrobe
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Eshott Hall
Northumberland
Eshott Hall layers a little-known moated medieval manor beneath a later Palladian house, linking fortified residence, Northumberland estate history…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Esker Friary
County Galway
Four centuries of continuous religious life under one roof: Dominican novitiate, diocesan seminary, then Redemptorist monastery: ending only in 2022.
- Near Athenry
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Eston Nab
North Yorkshire
A sandstone summit carrying three layers of human use at once: Bronze Age burial, an Iron Age hillfort, and a beacon tower: bought back into commun…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Etal Castle
Northumberland
Etal Castle is a strategically placed medieval border fortress whose capture by James IV in 1513 and surviving tower show the costs of the Anglo-Sc…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ethie Castle
Angus
A working seat still lived in by a clan chief, Ethie carries the Trafalgar arms of an admiral earl and the murdered cardinal who once held it.
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Sacred place · Medieval
Everdon Priory
Northamptonshire
Its monks were formally investigated by the Crown in 1329 for turning justice into profit, and the priory, a monastery run by a prior, ended up own…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Evesham Abbey
Worcestershire
Simon de Montfort, the baron whose death reshaped England's parliamentary history, lies buried near the high altar of a Benedictine house that was…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Evesham Bell Tower
Worcestershire
The only fragment of Evesham Abbey the Dissolution (Henry VIII's closure of the monasteries in the 1530s) left wholly intact, saved from demolition…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Ewenny Priory
Vale of Glamorgan
Called the most complete and impressive Norman ecclesiastical building in Glamorgan: and defended like a castle, on the site its founder first mean…
- Near Ewenny
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ewloe Castle
Flintshire
Built not by an English king but by Welsh princes, its D-shaped keep sits on a rock outcrop rather than projecting from a wall: a design choice wit…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ewyas Harold Castle
Herefordshire
A castle raised before the Norman Conquest itself: one of only a handful of pre-1066 fortifications built in England, on a site later remade three…
- Near Ewyas Harold
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Exeter Cathedral
Devon
Exeter Cathedral is a thousand-year religious and architectural landmark, renowned for its Roman-to-Gothic history, medieval vaulting, misericords,…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Exeter city walls
Devon
Exeter’s walls make nearly two millennia of urban defence walkable, retaining most of a Roman circuit repeatedly adapted by Anglo-Saxon, medieval a…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Exeter Greyfriars
Devon
Exeter Greyfriars documents a Franciscan community present in the city from before 1240 until the Dissolution (Henry VIII's closure of the monaster…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Eye Castle
Suffolk
A Norman castle on its mound at Eye, sacked and largely destroyed in 1265.
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Sacred place · Medieval
Eye Priory
Suffolk
Excavation in 1926 showed the buildings here were put up as a deliberate copy of the mother house in Normandy. A ninth-century seal-die of Bishop A…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Eynsford Castle
Kent
Eynsford Castle preserves an unusually early Norman stone enclosure built over an Anglo-Saxon elite residence, with later hall, curtain wall and mo…
- Near Canterbury
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Sacred place · Medieval
Eynsham Abbey
Oxfordshire
A Thames-side abbey (a religious community led by an abbot) founded by royal licence in 1005, briefly annexed to a Lincolnshire house before return…
- Near Eynsham
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Fortified place · Medieval
Eyrecourt Castle
County Galway
Its carved baroque staircase, one of the most exuberant pieces of 17th-century woodwork to survive, was sold in 1927 and now stands in a Detroit mu…
- Near Eyrecourt
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Fair Oak Lodge
Hampshire
A country house has been renamed, rebuilt, converted to a convent and finally turned into a school, while an unproven local tradition ties the grou…
- Near Winchester
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Fairy Toot
Somerset
An oval burial mound at Nempnett Thrubwell, where a long mound still covers the chamber built for the dead.
- Near Nempnett Thrubwell
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Fortified place · Medieval
Falkland Palace
Fife
Falkland Palace is a major Scottish royal residence where a medieval hunting castle became a French Renaissance court, retaining the world’s oldest…
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Falkner's Circle
Wiltshire
Reduced to a single leaning sarsen in a hedge, it is the ghost of a twelve-stone ring whose earthfast neighbours built Avebury itself.
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Farewell Priory
Staffordshire
Founded for male hermits and then given away to a community of women by the same bishop who had just endowed it.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Faringdon Castle
Oxfordshire
A Norman castle outside the market town, raised by Robert, Earl of Gloucester.
- Near Faringdon
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Fortified place · Medieval
Farleigh Hungerford Castle
Somerset
A wife strangled her first husband and burned his body in the castle oven; a later lord starved his own wife in one of the towers. Both stories are…
- Some walking
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Farndon Bridge
Wrexham
Built by Chester monks in 1339, this red sandstone crossing still carries live traffic between England and Wales: one of only a handful of medieval…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Farnham Castle
Surrey
A bishop's stronghold occupied almost continuously for 800 years, from a Norman motte (the great earth mound at the heart of an early castle) throu…
- Near Farnham
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Farranahineeny Stone Row
County Cork
Farranahineeny Stone Row is a protected County Cork monument east of the Shehy Mountains, whose uncertain Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when met…
- Near Macroom
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Fast Castle
Scottish Borders
Once known as Fause (False) Castle for the lights its defenders hung to lure ships onto the rocks below, this stronghold made deception part of its…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Fatlips Castle
Scottish Borders
A reivers' watchtower above the Teviot whose unlikely name is said to record an indecorous greeting for visitors, later reborn as a Lorimer-designe…
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Sacred place · Medieval
East Bergholt Abbey
Suffolk
The nuns baked their own bread, brewed their own beer, kept bees and showed at local agricultural shows: and paid the bills by making vestments.
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Fortified place · Medieval
East Cowes Castle
Isle of Wight
East Cowes Castle was John Nash’s celebrated Gothic Revival home, now demolished but remembered through its surviving gatehouse, icehouse, clock an…
- Near East Cowes
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Eastminster
Greater London
Eastminster was a short-lived Cistercian abbey (a religious community led by an abbot) founded by Edward III beside the Tower of London, whose exca…
- Near London
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Eggardon Hill
Dorset
Eggardon Hill is a major Dorset landscape from before any written account of Britain existed, where a 21-hectare defended enclosure, burial mounds…
- Near Askerswell
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Eightercua
County Kerry
Local tradition names this Bronze Age stone row the grave of Scéine, wife of the Milesian leader Amergin mac Míled: tying a modest monument to Irel…
- Near Waterville
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Ellerton Priory (Spalding Moor)
East Riding of Yorkshire
Ellerton Priory is a scheduled remnant of the Gilbertine order, England’s only medieval monastic order founded for both men and women.
- Near Ellerton
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Sacred place · Medieval
Elsham Priory
Lincolnshire
Elsham’s fishpond is a fragile witness: the lone physical trace of a monastery founded by Beatrice d’Amundeville and dissolved in 1536.
- Near Elsham
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Emblance Downs stone circles
Cornwall
A closely spaced pair of ruined Bodmin Moor stone circles, preserving an unusual double-monument arrangement beside other prehistoric (before any w…
- Near Penzance
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Embury Beacon
Devon
Embury Beacon makes coastal change visible: an Iron Age (from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest) fort has been drastically reduced by erosion,…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Enfield Old Park
Greater London
Enfield Old Park preserves one of Middlesex’s rare Domesday deer parks, combining an Iron Age, from the centuries before Rome arrived, hillfort, a…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Enniskillen Castle
County Fermanagh
Enniskillen Castle preserves a Maguire stronghold remade through siege, Plantation rebuilding and military use into the town’s layered Fermanagh he…
- Near Enniskillen
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Etonbury Castle
Bedfordshire
A railway cutting was driven straight through this Danish-attributed stronghold, leaving cropmarks and fragments of earthwork: earth moved and shap…
- Near Arlesey
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Sacred place · Medieval
Exeter Blackfriars
Devon
Exeter Blackfriars marks the former Dominican presence in the city centre and carries evidence of elite medieval burial before the priory: a religi…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Fanning's Castle
County Limerick
Off Creagh Lane and Mary Street on King's Island, opposite the old tholsel, the roughly squared limestone walls of Fanning's Castle rise four store…
- Near Askeaton
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Faringdon Abbey
Oxfordshire
A Cistercian monastery at Wyke, just north of the town, on a royal manor.
- Near Faringdon
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Sacred place · Medieval
Farmcote Grange
Gloucestershire
Farmcote Grange's only firmly established fact is one link: this Gloucestershire farm answered to the great abbey (a self-governing monastery, its…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Fathom Castle
County Down
Fathom Castle records a strategically placed but vanished stronghold, moving from possible De Lacy-era occupation to O’Neill power and canal-era de…
- Near Newry
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