Sacred place · Medieval
Great Yarmouth Grey Friary
Norfolk
Great Yarmouth Grey Friary preserves Grade I fragments of a Franciscan house founded around 1226, whose covered walkway survived through later reus…
- Near Great Yarmouth
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Green Island (Dorset)
Dorset
Green Island combines protected Poole Harbour habitat with archaeological evidence of former trading activity, making a small private island import…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Greenan Castle
South Ayrshire
A sixteenth-century tower on a headland fortified since before the Romans, and the place a Kennedy set out from on the morning he was murdered.
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Sacred place · Medieval
Greenfield Priory
Lincolnshire
Two generations of the Barons Welles were buried here, while surviving bishops' records lay bare a small nunnery repeatedly failing to keep its own…
- Near Aby
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Greenhalgh Castle
Lancashire
One of the last two Royalist strongholds left standing in Lancashire, held through a bitter siege until May 1645, its towers pulled down soon after…
- Near Garstang
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Greenknowe Tower
Scottish Borders
Built for comfort rather than combat, its four-storey L-plan shell still carries an original iron yett, corbelled turrets and a kitchen with meat h…
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
Greensted Church
Essex
Greensted Church retains rare oak-wall construction from the late Anglo-Saxon or early Norman period, making it an exceptional survivor in debates…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Greenway Camp
Devon
Greenway Camp is a recorded Iron Age promontory fort: a coastal spur defended by banks across its neck: above the Dart Estuary, showing how elevate…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Gregans Castle
County Clare
A Cromwellian land grant handed the O'Lochlainn chief's tower house to the Martyn family, whose descendants steered the estate through farming decl…
- Near Gort
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Grennan Hill
Dumfries and Galloway
Grennan Hill rises outside the village of Penpont in Dumfries and Galloway, and it carries on its summit the remains of an Iron Age (from about 800…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Gresham Castle
Norfolk
Gresham Castle is a moated fortified manor whose disputed fifteenth-century possession, vividly recorded in the Paston Letters, connects Norfolk ea…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Gresley Priory
Derbyshire
A small Augustinian house so thinly staffed it once had only four canons, yet its church survived the Dissolution (Henry VIII's closure of the mona…
- Near Bakewell
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Grey Croft stone circle
Cumbria
Ten upright stones stand today only because a 1949 dig found and re-set nine of them after a farmer toppled and buried the circle in 1820.
- Near Keswick
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Grey Ditch
Derbyshire
A rare dated boundary earthwork (banks and ditches raised from the earth rather than quarried stone) of the post-Roman centuries, cut across the ol…
- Near Bakewell
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Sacred place · Medieval
Greyfriars Church, Reading
Berkshire
A church that has been a friary, a town hall, a poorhouse, a house of correction and a jail before ever returning to worship: the only Franciscan c…
- Near Reading
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Greyfriars, Bedford
Bedfordshire
Two rival medieval sources credit different founders: one a noblewoman, one a knight: and its church became the resting place of a medieval baron o…
- Near Bedford
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Sacred place · Medieval
Greyfriars, Beverley
East Riding of Yorkshire
A Franciscan friary (the base of a mendicant order, whose members worked in the streets rather than behind walls) rebuilt on a knight's money after…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Greyfriars, Canterbury
Kent
England’s first Franciscan friary (a house of friars, who worked among townspeople rather than withdrawing from them) preserves rare traces of medi…
- Near Canterbury
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Greyfriars, Coventry
West Midlands
A single medieval spire still rises where an entire Franciscan priory once stood: the only fragment to survive dissolution, a Victorian rebuilding,…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Greyfriars, Leicester
Leicestershire
A car park in Leicester concealed an undisturbed medieval church floor for centuries: including the grave of a king whose bones were long rumoured,…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Greyfriars, Lincoln
Lincolnshire
A single friary building carried four wholly different institutions across seven centuries: friary, grammar school, Mechanics' Institute, and count…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Greyfriars, London
City of London
A friary (a community of friars, an order that lived among the towns instead of apart from them) church so richly endowed by queens that it became…
- Near City of London
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Greyfriars, Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
Greyfriars reveals medieval Nottingham’s lost Franciscan presence: a church rebuilt in stone for nearly a century, now erased beneath Broadmarsh.
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Sacred place · Medieval
Greyfriars, Stamford
Lincolnshire
A royal cortège carrying the exhumed Duke of York rested here in 1476, and the friary (the base of a mendicant order, whose members worked in the s…
- Near Stamford
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Sacred place · Medieval
Greyfriars, Winchelsea
East Sussex
One of England's best-preserved Franciscan friary, a religious house for a preaching order, stands beside a Gothic country house raised four centur…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Greyhound Yard
Dorset
Greyhound Yard preserves evidence of a late Stone Age timber henge: a prehistoric earthwork of bank and ditch enclosing a circular space, with the…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Greystoke Castle
Cumbria
A working private estate rather than a ruin, Greystoke traces an unbroken line of ownership back to a wooden tower raised within a year of the Norm…
- Near Penrith
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Greystone Bridge
Cornwall
Greystone Bridge is a rare surviving medieval Tamar crossing: a four-arch, Grade I listed bridge whose narrow carriageway still demands careful mod…
- Near Penzance
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Grime's Graves
Norfolk
Grime’s Graves is Britain’s largest known Neolithic (the closing Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) flint-mining complex, with at least 433 shafts th…
- Near Weeting
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Grimsbury Castle
Berkshire
A hillfort (a hilltop enclosure ringed by earth ramparts) built around a spring said to have never run dry, its ramparts so imposing that Saxon set…
- Near Hampstead Norreys
- Some walking
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Grimspound
Devon
Grimspound is a scheduled late Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first spread) Dartmoor settlement whose hut circles, enclosing wal…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Groby Castle
Leicestershire
A 1960s excavation found a stone tower built inside the earthen mound itself: evidence this ruined Leicestershire manor was once important enough f…
- Near Groby
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Fortified place · Medieval
Grosmont Castle
Monmouthshire
One of only three castles ever bound into a single Marcher lordship, its stone hall building was modelled so closely on a lord's residence in Dorse…
- Near Grosmont
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Grovebury Priory
Bedfordshire
One of only four English houses of the Order of Fontevrault, and the only one entirely destroyed by a sand quarry: rescued from oblivion by a decad…
- Near Leighton Buzzard
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Grovely Castle
Wiltshire
Five human skeletons were found inside its banks, and a circular enclosure shows within it on aerial photographs.
- Near Little Langford
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Grubstones
West Yorkshire
Someone built an orgone accumulator into it in the twentieth century: a mound meant to collect a life force that does not exist.
- Near Ilkley
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Guildford Black Friary
Surrey
The graves of plague victims, buried together in communal pits beneath the choir, are among the clearest human traces excavation found only a metre…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Guildford Castle
Surrey
A Norman keep that became a royal palace under Henry III, painted green with gold and silver stars: then quietly served two centuries as the shared…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Guildhall, London
City of London
The City of London's medieval civic heart, built over Britain's largest Roman amphitheatre and still used for ceremony, administration and public m…
- Near London
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Gun's Mills, Flaxley
Gloucestershire
A working blast furnace of the 1620s survives here complete with its original lining and covered charging platform, called by specialists the oldes…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Gurnard's Head
Cornwall
Gurnard's Head is a geologically ancient Penwith headland whose Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) fort, medieval chapel, fishing e…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Gwrych Castle
Conwy
Gwrych Castle is a Grade I listed Gothic Revival country house whose dramatic nineteenth-century design, Kindertransport refuge and near-loss befor…
- Near Conwy
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Gwydir Castle
Conwy
Gwydir Castle is a fortified Tudor manor in the Conwy valley whose reused abbey (a religious community led by an abbot) fabric and powerful Wynn fa…
- Near Conwy
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Gybson's Conduit
Norfolk
Gybson’s Conduit is a scheduled Early Renaissance water monument in Norwich, showing how Robert Gybson turned a public spring into a display of civ…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Gylen Castle
Argyll and Bute
A tower house burnt in a single 1647 siege and left roofless for nearly 360 years, until a worldwide clan fundraising effort helped bring the ruin…
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Roman
Habitancum
Northumberland
Habitancum is a repeatedly rebuilt Roman fort on Dere Street, whose surviving ditches and settlement traces record centuries of frontier instabilit…
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Hackpen, Warren & Gramp's Hill Downs
Oxfordshire
Seventy-one hectares of protected biological downland at Letcombe Bassett.
- Near Letcombe Bassett
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hadleigh Castle
Essex
Hadleigh Castle is a Thames-side royal fortress whose dramatic ruins record medieval power, Edward III’s architectural ambition, long-term coastal…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Hadrian's Wall
Northumberland
Hadrian’s Wall was Rome’s most monumental frontier in Britain: a 73-mile system of walls, forts, milecastles, turrets, and controlled gates that re…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Hafotty
gwynedd
A mid-fourteenth-century hall house on Anglesey, first built in timber and re-cased in stone, still in Bulkeley hands after five centuries and carr…
- Near Llanddona
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Sacred place · Medieval
Hagnaby Abbey
Lincolnshire
A widow's grief founded it, Becket's memory named it, and eight decades of dependency ended in full abbey status: a rare, well-documented Premonstr…
- Near Hagnaby
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Sacred place · Medieval
Hailes Abbey
Gloucestershire
A phial said to hold Christ's blood turned this Cistercian house into a major pilgrimage site: its exposure as a fake later helped seal the abbey (…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hailes Castle
East Lothian
Hailes Castle is a riverside Hepburn stronghold whose fourteenth-century towers, chapel and service rooms record border warfare and late medieval l…
- Near Dunbar
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hailes Castle, Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire
A stronghold raised for one purpose and cleared for another: reinforced during the Anarchy, then likely dismantled within a century to make room fo…
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Hale Duck Decoy
Cheshire
One of England's few surviving duck decoys still holding its original form: five pipes radiating from a central pond in a pentagon shape used to tr…
- Near Chester
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hales Castle
Somerset
A Norman ringwork above Frome whose bailey was never finished: built to hold a river and a Roman road.
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Sacred place · Medieval
Halesowen Abbey
West Midlands
Its manorial court rolls survive in unusual depth, recording three centuries of tenants openly defying a monastic landlord: a rare surviving voice…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hallaton Castle
Leicestershire
Hallaton Castle survives as a remarkably large castle mound and enclosed yard, preserving a Norman estate centre long after its buildings disappeared.
- Near Hallaton
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Halliggye Fogou
Cornwall
Halliggye Fogou is Cornwall's largest and best-preserved subterranean Iron Age (from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest) passage complex, later…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Haltadans
Shetland Islands
Thirty-eight stones once ringed this patch of ground on Fetlar, Shetland; twenty-two of them still stand fixed in the soil, describing a circle ele…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Haltemprice Priory
East Riding of Yorkshire
A powerful baron moved an entire monastery two miles across country to outwit English inheritance law, and its farmhouse successor still stands, re…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Halton Castle
Cheshire
A castle that hosted a king, imprisoned Catholic recusants, and ended its working life as a Georgian courtroom now serving pints as The Castle pub.
- Near Runcorn
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Halton Castle, Northumberland
Northumberland
Halton Castle preserves a four-storey pele tower beside Hadrian’s Wall, adapted through manor-house rebuilding into the long-held residence of the…
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Halton Cross
Lancashire
A dismantled Anglo-Saxon cross reused as a sundial for two centuries, its surviving shaft carries what one archaeologist called the clearest carved…
- Near Lancaster
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Halwell Camp
Devon
Halwell Camp marks an Iron Age hillfort: a settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground: on a pass above the Devon village of Halwell, p…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ham Castle
Worcestershire
A hoard of gold and silver, hidden in an earlier alarm and forgotten, lay buried beneath the vaults of this Worcestershire stronghold until a 17th-…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Ham Hill Hillfort
Somerset
A defended hilltop occupied across several early periods and again in Roman and medieval times.
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Ham Hill, Somerset
Somerset
A 210-acre hillfort taken by the future emperor Vespasian around AD 45: and quarried ever since for the stone that bears its name.
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Hamble Common
Hampshire
A single stretch of heathland carries a defensive ditch from the Iron Age, a Tudor coastal castle now eaten by the sea, and gun platforms from two…
- Near Winchester
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Hambledon Hill
Dorset
Hambledon Hill is a major Dorset landscape with causewayed enclosures and long burial mounds from the late Stone Age, later overlaid by an extensiv…
- Near Child Okeford
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hampstead Norreys Castle
Berkshire
A chalk mound long mistaken for a prehistoric (before written records reached Britain) burial mound turned out, on closer inspection, to be the ear…
- Near Hampstead Norreys
- Some walking
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Hampton in Arden packhorse bridge
West Midlands
At under six feet wide and still standing after five centuries, it is reckoned the longest surviving packhorse bridge in England.
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Roman
Hanging Bridge
Greater Manchester
Hanging Bridge is Manchester’s partly exposed 1421 medieval bridge, preserving a crossing over the former defensive watercourse now buried beneath…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Hangman's Wood and Deneholes
Essex
Hangman’s Wood combines ancient oak woodland, more than seventy former chalk- and flint-mining shafts and Essex’s most important underground bat hi…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hangthwaite Castle
South Yorkshire
A grass-grown mound and its water-filled ditch are all that remain of a Norman lord's stronghold, abandoned within two centuries for a fortified ho…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hanley Castle (castle)
Worcestershire
The fortress that gave a Worcestershire village its name has vanished so completely that a stand of conifers and a dry ditch are all that mark wher…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Harbottle Castle
Northumberland
Harbottle Castle is a Coquet Valley border stronghold repeatedly captured, rebuilt, and used by March wardens, with a direct connection to the Tudo…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Hardham Priory
West Sussex
A house of Black Canons in the water meadows of the Arun, whose refectory: the monks' dining hall: survives because somebody turned it into a farmh…
- Near Hardham
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Hardknott Pass
Cumbria
A Roman military road laid down around AD 110 still runs beneath a modern tarmac lane so steep it shares the title of England's toughest climb.
- Near Eskdale
- Rough ground
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Great Yarmouth Carmelite Friary
Norfolk
Great Yarmouth Carmelite Friary represents the town’s medieval White Friars community, whose 1276 foundation, 1509 fire and 1538 suppression are no…
- Near Great Yarmouth
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Greenala Point
Pembrokeshire
A promontory framed by sandstone cliffs on the Pembrokeshire south coast, some five kilometres from the nearest village.
- Near Pembroke
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Greencastle, County Down
County Down
Greencastle guards Carlingford Lough’s narrow entrance, where a thirteenth-century stone castle, earlier motte (a steep artificial mound built to c…
- Near Greenore
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Sacred place · Medieval
Greenham Preceptory
Berkshire
A working house of the crusading Knights Hospitaller stood here for over three centuries, yet today not one stone of it can be pointed to.
- Near Greenham
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Fortified place · Medieval
Greenwich Castle
Greater London
Greenwich Castle marks the hilltop predecessor of the Royal Observatory: a royal hunting lodge linked to Duke Humphrey of Gloucester and Henry VIII…
- Near Greenwich
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Grey Abbey, Down
County Down
Grey Abbey preserves a Cistercian foundation with a rare female patron and some of the earliest Early Gothic pointed arches in Ireland.
- Near Newtownards
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Sacred place · Medieval
Grey Abbey, Kildare
County Kildare
Grey Abbey joins a 1260 Franciscan foundation to the likely manuscript source of the Kildare poems, giving its ruined fabric a rare literary signif…
- Near Kildare
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Grey Wethers
Devon
Grey Wethers is an unusually well-defined pair of prehistoric (predating the written record in Britain) stone circles on Dartmoor, with surviving l…
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Greyfriars, Gloucester
Gloucestershire
Of Gloucester's three medieval friaries, only Greyfriars kept a standing church above ground - the Berkeleys' Perpendicular Gothic rebuild of about…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Greyfriars, King's Lynn
Norfolk
Greyfriars Tower is one of only three surviving Franciscan monastic towers in England, retained after the Dissolution (Henry VIII's closure of the…
- Near King’s Lynn
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Sacred place · Medieval
GreyFriars, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Tyne and Wear
Charles I was held prisoner by the Scots in the mansion built out of the Franciscans' own stone. The whole thing came down to make way for Grey Str…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Greyfriars, Shrewsbury
Shropshire
A house of friars where Owen de la Pole, the last Prince of Powys, was buried alongside his daughters.
- Near Shrewsbury
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Fortified place · Roman
Grim's Ditch (Harrow)
Greater London
Grim’s Ditch is a surviving London earthwork (banks and ditches raised from the earth rather than quarried stone) whose ridge-top line, possible la…
- Near Harrow Weald
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Grimstock Hill Romano-British settlement
Warwickshire
A circular wooden temple stood here before the conquest. Stone temples of the Roman period replaced it, in two phases.
- Near Coleshill
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Building or ruin · Roman
Guildhall Art Gallery
City of London
The City of London's art collection displayed above the remains of Britain's largest Roman amphitheatre, joining Victorian paintings to Roman archa…
- Near City of London
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Hadrian's Wall Path
Northumberland
Hadrian’s Wall Path turns the Roman frontier into an 84-mile National Trail, connecting urban Tyne-side sites, exposed Wall country, and the Solway…
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Building or ruin · Iron Age
Halangy Down
Cornwall
Halangy Down condenses five centuries of prehistoric (before written records reached Britain) and Romano-British (Britain under Roman rule, AD 43–4…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Haldon Hills
Devon
The Haldon Hills are a long Devon ridge where prehistoric (before any written account of Britain existed) monuments, historic routes, extraction, c…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Haltwhistle Castle
Northumberland
Nothing of it stands. What survives is a street called Castle Hill, a drive of the same name, and some possible remnants of a fortified bank.
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Hampton Down Stone Circle
Dorset
Hampton Down’s reconstructed stone circle offers a rare case study in how excavation corrected centuries of disturbance and revealed a much smaller…
- Near Portesham
- Easy path
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