Fortified place · Medieval
Gannocks Castle
Bedfordshire
Its name promises a castle but hides a Norman fortified manor house, possibly raised over a Viking stronghold tied to a ninth-century battle for Te…
- Near Tempsford
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Garbally Castle
County Galway
A tower house razed within five years of its completion, then re-inhabited three centuries later by an evicted family with nowhere else to shelter.
- Near Ballinasloe
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Garendon Abbey
Leicestershire
A Georgian mansion was built directly across the footprint of the vanished abbey church, its drains reusing the monks' own sewer: two buildings, fo…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Garn Boduan
Gwynedd
Garn Boduan is a major Llŷn Iron Age hillfort: a defended hilltop settlement of the Iron Age: where evidence for more than 170 roundhouses and perh…
- Near Nefyn
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Garway Dovecote
herefordshire
A circular Knights Hospitaller dovecote of 1326 with nineteen rows of nesting boxes, rebuilt on a Templar original and called by some the finest me…
- Near Hereford
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Gatcombe, Somerset
Somerset
A house at Ashton Watering in the parish of Long Ashton, protected by law for its architecture.
- Near Long Ashton
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Gatton Park
Surrey
Ten flagstones quarried near Thurso carry 2,000 years of quotation across a park shaped by Capability Brown: a millennium monument standing inside…
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Gaulstown Portal Tomb
County Waterford
Its capstone spans over four metres across twin portal stones taller than a person: one of the finest surviving portal tombs in the region.
- Near Waterford
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Gautries Rake
Derbyshire
Scheduled in 2013, the rake preserves an intact surface record of a lead vein worked as a single open trench rather than through scattered shafts a…
- Near Bakewell
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Building or ruin · Roman
Gayton Thorpe Roman Villa
Norfolk
Gayton Thorpe Roman Villa is a scheduled Norfolk villa complex, where mosaics, heated rooms and detached bathhouses reveal a substantial rural esta…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Giant's Castle, Isles of Scilly
Cornwall
Giant's Castle uses sea cliffs and a triple line of earthworks to defend a small Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) promontory on S…
- Near Penzance
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Giant's Ring
County Down
One of Ireland's largest Neolithic (the late Stone Age, about 4000–2500 BC in Britain) henges, raised centuries before the pyramids, hiding a small…
- Near Belfast
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Gib Hill
Derbyshire
Two burial monuments share one mound: a late Stone Age oval mound, dating roughly 4000–2500 BC in Britain, and a later round mound from roughly 250…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Gidleigh Castle
Devon
Gidleigh Castle is a rare fortified manor on Dartmoor’s edge, combining a fourteenth-century Prouz residence with later collapse, conservation and…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Gidlow Hall
Greater Manchester
Gidlow Hall preserves the moated, partially surviving home of an Aspull family recorded from the 13th century, with visible fabric from its 1574 re…
- Near Aspull
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Minor monument · Medieval
Giggleswick Market Cross
North Yorkshire
Giggleswick Market Cross preserves the village’s late-medieval market status and, through later relocation and competing local traditions, captures…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Gilling Abbey
North Yorkshire
A monastery founded as blood-price for a murdered king: the weregild for Oswine of Deira paid not in silver but in stone and prayer.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Gilling Castle
North Yorkshire
Its Elizabethan Great Chamber was stripped for shipment to a Hollywood mogul's castle in 1930, then spent decades in storage before returning intac…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Girdle Stanes
Dumfries and Galloway
Twenty-six standing stones curve in a crescent above the bank of the White Esk near Eskdalemuir, in Dumfries and Galloway. The gap in the ring is n…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Gisborough Priory
North Yorkshire
Gisborough Priory was a wealthy Augustinian foundation rebuilt after catastrophic fire and then dismantled at the Dissolution (Henry VIII's closure…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Glamis Castle
Angus
One family, the Lyons, has held this Strathmore estate since the 1370s, and its rooms have hosted a murdered king, a woman burned for witchcraft, a…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Glandyfi Castle
Ceredigion
Ceredigion's only castellated Georgian country house, built as a Gothic Revival fantasy for a family whose fortunes came from local industry.
- Near Glandyfi
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Glantane East
County Cork
Glantane East brings a wedge tomb: a Neolithic tomb whose chamber narrows and drops towards the back, from the late Stone Age roughly 4000–2500 BC…
- Near Millstreet
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Glanworth Abbey
County Cork
A Dominican priory whose true founding date is disputed: left out of the order's own 1300 catalogue, which points to an origin nearer 1475 than the…
- Near Fermoy
- Some walking
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Crossing or structure · Roman
Glasgow Bridge, Kirkintilloch
East Dunbartonshire
Glasgow Bridge marks a largely invisible Antonine Wall fortlet known through aerial evidence, beside a canal crossing that now connects Kirkintillo…
- Near Kirkintilloch
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Glasgow Cathedral
Glasgow City
One of only two medieval Scottish cathedrals: alongside St Magnus in Orkney: to survive the Reformation (the sixteenth-century suppression of monas…
- Near Gloucester
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Sacred place · Medieval
Glasney College
Cornwall
Glasney College was medieval Cornwall's leading clerical and literary institution, and its destruction severed a major formal base for Cornish-lang…
- Near Penzance
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Glastonbury Abbey
Somerset
Monks dug up King Arthur here in 1191, seven years after a fire destroyed the abbey, a monastery headed by an abbot, and pilgrim numbers collapsed.…
- Near Glastonbury
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Glastonbury Lake Village
Somerset
Timber and a thousand tonnes of imported clay, laid on a swamp to make solid ground for up to 200 people. The wood is still down there, reburied to…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Gleaston Castle
Cumbria
Four sandstone-dressed towers still stand around a limestone enclosure abandoned within a century of being built, left untouched by any later rebui…
- Near Ulverston
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Glebe Cairn
Argyll and Bute
A jet necklace recovered from one of its two Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC) stone cists is a rare surviving trace of the personal ornaments burie…
- Near Kilmartin
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Glenarm Castle
County Antrim
Glenarm Castle layers a thirteenth-century Bisset capital with the MacDonnell family’s 1636 estate, a long-lived centre of power on the Antrim coast.
- Near Glenarm
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Roman
Glenbank
Perth and Kinross
The Romans pulled it down themselves when they left. Aerial photography found it again in 1983.
- Near Dunblane
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Glenbuchat Castle
Aberdeenshire
In 1948 a local club bought the surrounding parkland just so the castle's setting would stay intact: a community rescue of a landscape, not the bui…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Glendalough
County Wicklow
A single monastic settlement produced two cathedrals' worth of ruins, a 30-metre round tower, and a saint's cave-retreat, all set between two glaci…
- Near Glendalough
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Fortified place · Roman
Glenlochar Roman Fort, Camps and Road
Dumfries and Galloway
Roughly seven acres of Roman fort lie buried on the eastern bank of the River Dee, opposite the hamlet of Glenlochar in the parish of Balmaghie. Fo…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Glenluce Abbey
Dumfries and Galloway
Glenluce Abbey preserves a Cistercian foundation in Galloway whose post-Reformation (the sixteenth-century closure of the monasteries) seizure, Ken…
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Glenquicken stone circle
Dumfries and Galloway
At the centre of an oval ring of 29 stones, two miles east of Creetown in Dumfries and Galloway, a single tall pillar stands upright. This arrangem…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Glenquin Castle
County Limerick
Glenquin Castle's square limestone tower rises six storeys beside the R515, about 2.4 kilometres west of Killeedy in County Limerick. The structure…
- Near Ballingarry
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Glenstal Abbey
County Limerick
A castle built new in the 1830s to look medieval later became a working Benedictine monastery whose monks charted commercial chant albums and sang…
- Near Murroe
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Glevum
Gloucestershire
One of only a handful of coloniae in Roman Britain, and the likely provincial capital of Britannia Secunda: a rank Glevum shared only with York and…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Glin Castle
County Limerick
The Georgian house at Glin is one family's third seat on this spot by the Shannon: 700 unbroken years of the Knights of Glin, from tower house to h…
- Near Glin
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Glinsk Castle
County Galway
A mid-seventeenth-century Galway tower house, reputedly Ireland's last castle, whose intact defensive and domestic features survive despite an earl…
- Near Glinsk
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Globe Theatre
Greater London
The playhouse built from another theatre stolen beam by beam over Christmas 1598: and found again under a Southwark car park in 1989.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Glossop Castle
Derbyshire
A Norman stronghold raised by William Peverel on a ridge already old with Celtic use: the same builder responsible for Peveril Castle a dozen miles…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Glottenham Castle
East Sussex
Glottenham Castle preserves the earthwork (a bank, ditch or mound shaped from soil rather than built in stone) trace of a thirteenth-century moated…
- Near Battle
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Fortified place · Medieval
Gloucester Castle
Gloucestershire
A Plantagenet prisoner with a rival claim to the crown was once held within it: yet the castle was so thoroughly erased that its foundations lay bu…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Gloucester Cathedral
Gloucestershire
Its cloisters hold the earliest fan vaulting raised anywhere in England, built on wealth that pilgrims brought to the shrine of a murdered king.
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Pictish & early medieval
God's House Tower
Hampshire
One of England's earliest purpose-built cannon forts survives here fused onto a medieval town gate, its gunports still facing the water it was rais…
- Near Winchester
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Gog Magog Hills
Cambridgeshire
A hillfort with Bronze Age origins borrowed its name from a lost giant: a chalk hill figure recorded in the 17th and 18th centuries, then never see…
- Near Great Shelford
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Goldcliff Priory
Newport
A Benedictine house whose monks wore white, not black, and whose farmland foundations still trace a 37-metre range beside a double-banked earthwork…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Goodrich Castle
Herefordshire
A square Norman keep survives at the heart of a fully concentric castle whose design influenced later English building, and which fell only after a…
- Near Hereford
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Goodrich Court
Herefordshire
A vanished antiquarian (an early collector-scholar of antiquities, working before modern archaeology)'s fantasy castle, built to outstare a real me…
- Near Hereford
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Goonhilly Downs
Cornwall
Goonhilly Downs combines protected serpentinite heath with one of Britain's defining satellite-station landscapes, showing scientific infrastructur…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Goosehill Camp
West Sussex
An Iron Age earthwork of two concentric circuits in Kingley Vale, dug three times in sixty years: a record of how archaeological method changed.
- Near Stoughton
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Gorley Hill
Hampshire
A promontory fort (a coastal spur defended by banks thrown across its neck) on a gravel spur above the Avon valley, all but erased in the 1950s and…
- Near Winchester
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Gorton Monastery
Greater Manchester
Gorton Monastery is Edward Welby Pugin’s major Gothic Revival friary, a house of friars who worked among townspeople, church, saved from derelictio…
- Near Gorton
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Gosforth Cross
Cumbria
A single carved stone shows a Christian crucifixion and Norse gods sharing the same four faces, caught mid-way between two belief systems rather th…
- Near Gosforth
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Gough's Cave
Somerset
A long cave in Cheddar Gorge with large chambers, an underground river and evidence of very early occupation.
- Near Cheddar
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Grabbist Hillfort
Somerset
An enclosure that may not be a hillfort, an Iron Age, roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest, settlement defended by banks and ditches on high gro…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Grace Dieu Abbey, Monmouth
Monmouthshire
Grace Dieu was the last Cistercian foundation in Wales: a poor, repeatedly displaced abbey (a monastery headed by an abbot) whose attacks, royal ti…
- Near Dingestow
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Granard Motte
County Longford
At 163 metres above sea level this is Ireland's highest motte, the great earth mound at the heart of an early castle, raised by a Norman knight dir…
- Near Granard
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Grange Abbey
County Dublin
The modest ruin preserves how the monastic farm of All Hallows served an estate community, then became a site of repeated conservation and archaeol…
- Near Dublin
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Grange Castle
County Kildare
Grange Castle preserves a protected tower house whose Irish name recalls the monastery’s outlying farm, making its setting as meaningful as its sur…
- Near Kildare
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Grange stone circle
County Limerick
A carving invisible for millennia was found on one of its stones only in 2022: proof this Bronze Age (the period from about 2500 to 800 BC) circle…
- Near Limerick
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Grangefertagh
County Kilkenny
Grangefertagh layers a sixth-century foundation, a 31-metre round tower and a later Augustinian church around one of Kilkenny’s most unusual mediev…
- Near Johnstown
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Granny Kempock Stone
Inverclyde
A weathered mica-schist pillar above a shopping street carries a rare double legacy: a supposed Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools f…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Granuaile's Castle
County Mayo
One of only a handful of surviving strongholds of Gráinne Ní Mháille, the O'Malley seafarer whose Atlantic reach earned her the name of Ireland's p…
- Near Clare Island
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Gravesend Blockhouse
Kent
Gravesend Blockhouse was a key Henry VIII Device fort protecting London’s Thames approach with Tilbury, and its changing guns, platforms and eventu…
- Near Gravesend
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Fortified place · Medieval
Great Ashfield Castle
Suffolk
An earth mound 130 feet across the base and 24 feet high, with a surrounding ditch that some investigations suggest was added later.
- Near Great Ashfield
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Great Barford Bridge
Bedfordshire
A single crossing shows nearly six centuries of continuous change in one structure: medieval stonework widened first in timber, then rebuilt in bri…
- Near Great Barford
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Great Barford Castle
Bedfordshire
A Norman timber stronghold that quietly became a farm: its motte, the great earth mound at the heart of an early castle, and bailey, the defended y…
- Near Great Barford
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Great Canfield Castle
Essex
Great Canfield Castle’s surviving earthworks preserve a lowland Norman motte-and-bailey (a Norman earth-and-timber castle, a tower on a mound besid…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Great Coxwell Barn
Oxfordshire
A working monastic barn from the 1290s survives almost complete, its timber roof still resting on the same pairs of posts a Cistercian granger once…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Great Langdale
Cumbria
The scree below Pike of Stickle supplied a type of polished stone axe traded as far as Orkney and Cornwall, making this valley a working hub of Neo…
- Near Ambleside
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Great Limber Preceptory, Limber Magna
Lincolnshire
A quiet Lincolnshire farm site passed in turn through Cistercian, Templar and Hospitaller hands before ending as a Pelham family holding: three cen…
- Near Great Limber
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Sacred place · Medieval
Great Limber Priory, Limber Magna
Lincolnshire
A Lincolnshire manor and church handed by charter to a Norman abbey, then sold on two centuries later to a Coventry priory: its status as priory or…
- Near Great Limber
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Sacred place · Medieval
Great Malvern Priory
Worcestershire
Its 15th-century stained glass forms the largest surviving display of its kind in England, saved partly through the patronage of a man who had help…
- Easy path
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Settlement · Medieval
Great Manson Farm, Monmouth
Monmouthshire
Great Manson Farm is an active sheep farm whose three listed buildings preserve a late-medieval hall adapted as a barn, an eighteenth-century farmh…
- Near Monmouth
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Great Wilbraham causewayed enclosure
Cambridgeshire
Two ditches drawn as near-perfect circles, a rare geometric variant among Britain's causewayed enclosures, laid out beside a Cambridgeshire fen som…
- Near Great Wilbraham
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Sacred place · Medieval
Great Wilbraham Preceptory
Cambridgeshire
A working parish church still carries a hidden Templar tombstone beneath its tower and a Templar cross on its outer wall, physical survivals of a p…
- Near Great Wilbraham
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Building or ruin · Roman
Great Witcombe Roman Villa
Gloucestershire
Excavated, admired, then largely destroyed by rain and poor conservation within decades: its bath house mosaic and shrine room still survive to rew…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Gariannonum
Norfolk
Gariannonum is a debated Saxon Shore fort identity, likely tied to Burgh Castle and/or Caister-on-Sea, revealing how Rome guarded the Yare estuary…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Garvaghullion
County Tyrone
Garvaghullion preserves a Scheduled Bronze Age wooden trackway found deep in a raised bog landscape heavily reduced by peat extraction.
- Near Omagh
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Giant's Grave, Cumbria
Cumbria
Two standing stones at the foot of Black Combe carry rare prehistoric (before any written account of Britain existed) cup and ring carvings, one st…
- Near Penrith
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Sacred place · Medieval
Gillingham Friary
Dorset
Gillingham Friary is a sparsely recorded possible Dominican house in Dorset, whose uncertain identification is itself an important limit on what ca…
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Fortified place · Roman
Gobannium
Monmouthshire
Stamped into the fabric of roof tiles recovered from beneath the centre of Abergavenny is the mark of the Legio II (the Second Legion, whose base w…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Goffers Knoll
Cambridgeshire
A wooded chalk knoll conceals a substantially intact Bronze Age: roughly 2500–800 BC: burial mound, sited to loom over the ancient Icknield Way below.
- Near Royston
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Sacred place · Medieval
Gokewell Priory
Lincolnshire
A tiny Cistercian community of nuns that never grew beyond a handful of women, remembered chiefly through a bishop's blunt verdict: poor in means,…
- Near Broughton
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Goodaver stone circle
Cornwall
Goodaver's reconstructed ring remains a major Bodmin Moor stone circle, where its altered standing stones are themselves part of the record of twen…
- Near Penzance
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Gortalowry
County Tyrone
Gortalowry is a rural–urban County Tyrone townland where a Scheduled rath (an early-medieval Irish farmstead ringed by an earth bank), church and f…
- Near Dungannon
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Fortified place · Medieval
Gosford Castle
County Armagh
Gosford Castle is Ulster’s largest nineteenth-century country house, tracing Plantation estate power, Norman Revival ambition, wartime use and inve…
- Near Markethill
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Goward Dolmen
County Down
A granite capstone weighing many tons has slipped from its original level seat, tilting a late Stone Age burial chamber into the dramatic lean visi…
- Near Newry
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Grace's Old Castle
County Kilkenny
Grace's Old Castle carries over eight centuries of Kilkenny civic history from a private Anglo-Norman town residence to gaol, courthouse and a buil…
- Near Kilkenny
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Grafton Preceptory
Warwickshire
The village is called Temple Grafton because of a clerical error under Henry VIII. The Templars were never here; the Hospitallers had been for thre…
- Near Temple Grafton
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Fortified place · Medieval
Grallagh Castle
County Tipperary
Grallagh Castle is a protected late-medieval Tipperary tower house whose surviving bawn, battered walls and internal defensive features document a…
- Near Thurles
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Grannie stone
North Ayrshire
The Grannie Stone is an enduring Irvine river landmark whose uncertain origin: glacial erratic or last stone-circle survivor: reveals how folklore,…
- Near Irvine
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Great Bricett Priory
Suffolk
Its head was summoned to Westminster in 1346 with the other alien priors, on pain of forfeiting the house, its lands and its goods.
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Sacred place · Medieval
Great Connell Priory
County Kildare
Great Connell was a powerful Augustinian priory, a monastery run by a prior, of the Pale, founded from Wales and later dismantled for Newbridge bar…
- Near Newbridge
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Great Haigh Sough
Greater Manchester
Great Haigh Sough is a 17th-century mine-drainage tunnel whose surviving portal records the engineering that prolonged coal workings and later shap…
- Near Aspull
- Rough ground
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