Building or ruin · Roman
Hardknott Roman Fort
Cumbria
Hardknott’s dramatic mountain setting preserves an unusually complete Roman garrison, whose parade ground, workshops and rebuilt walls show how the…
- Near Eskdale
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Hardwell Castle
Oxfordshire
A pair of concentric banks and ditches folded into a hidden curve of the scarp rather than set to command it, seemingly built to be missed, not seen.
- Near Uffington
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Harewood Castle
West Yorkshire
Put up for sale in 1656 as 'an upstanding source of stone and timber'. Turner painted it several times in 1797.
- Near Harewood
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Harlech Castle
Gwynedd
Harlech Castle is Edward I’s sea-supplied Welsh stronghold, later Owain Glyndŵr’s headquarters and the last mainland Royalist fortress to surrender…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Harlowbury
Essex
Harlowbury brings together an abbey (a monastic house under the rule of an abbot)-founded manor, Harlow’s oldest standing building and a wider arch…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Harlsey Castle
North Yorkshire
Hidden within Grade II* farm buildings, Harlsey preserves fifteenth-century keep fabric, barrel-vaulted rooms and a chimney remnant shaped by centu…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Harold's Stones
monmouthshire
Three puddingstone monoliths in a row eleven metres long, raised in the Bronze Age: the era of metalworking from about 2500 to 800 BC: and aligned…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Harrold Priory
Bedfordshire
A small nunnery whose own chartulary preserves an unusually candid account of medieval convent life, ending in a disputed 1535 visitation letter al…
- Near Harrold
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Harrow Hill, West Sussex
West Sussex
A flint mine of the Neolithic, the late Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC in Britain, of some 245 shafts, one of them proved 6.7 metres deep with six…
- Near Angmering
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Hartland Abbey
Devon
Hartland Abbey carries the history of an Augustinian foundation established in the twelfth century through dissolution (Henry VIII's closure of the…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hartlebury Castle
Worcestershire
A working bishop's palace for nearly 800 years, whose Civil War siege ditch lay hidden until cropmarks revealed it in 2022: history still surfacing…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Hartlepool Abbey
County Durham
A double monastery of monks and nuns led by two of early Northumbria's most influential abbesses, its cemetery is the most thoroughly excavated of…
- Near Hartlepool
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hartley Castle
Cumbria
A stronghold whose owner was hanged, drawn and quartered for treason, later rebuilt as an Elizabethan house on the Scottish Marches, then quarried…
- Near Kirkby Stephen
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hartshill Castle
Warwickshire
Excavated in 2000 without archaeological supervision, and robbed of curtain wall in 2016. Ten thousand years earlier people came here for flint.
- Near Hartshill
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Hascombe Hill
Surrey
A single 24-metre entrance passage, cut through reinforced ramparts and ditches, shows how deliberately this Surrey hillfort (a defended enclosure…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hastings Castle
East Sussex
A castle raised in days on the eve of 1066 and then, for seven centuries since, slowly surrendered to the sea that made the town below it worth def…
- Near Hastings
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Hastings Priory
East Sussex
One of the few English monasteries driven from its home not by dissolution (Henry VIII's closure of the monasteries in the 1530s) or fire but by th…
- Near Hastings
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Sacred place · Medieval
Hatfield Peverel Priory
Essex
Hatfield Peverel Priory links a pre-Conquest religious foundation, a Benedictine cell of St Albans and a long post-Dissolution (Henry VIII's closur…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Haugham Priory
Lincolnshire
A tiny Norman-endowed cell whose three-century fate was decided by war, not by monks: passed between king, bishop and rival religious house before…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Haughley Castle
Suffolk
A medieval castle in the village north-west of Stowmarket.
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Sacred place · Medieval
Haughmond Abbey
Shropshire
A ruined Augustinian monastery near Shrewsbury, probably of the early twelfth century and long tied to the FitzAlans.
- Near Shrewsbury
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Haughton Castle
Northumberland
Haughton Castle turns a thirteenth-century tower house, once ruined and vulnerable to reivers, into a Grade I listed North Tyne mansion shaped by J…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Haverfordwest Castle
Pembrokeshire
A castle holding an isolated ridge-end position in the middle of the town.
- Near Haverfordwest
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Haverfordwest Priory
Pembrokeshire
A religious house on the banks of the Western Cleddau, its setting shaped by the river.
- Near Haverfordwest
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Haverholme Priory
Lincolnshire
Haverholme Priory preserves the layered story of a Gilbertine double monastery, later Gothic country house and listed ruin, connecting medieval rel…
- Near Lincoln
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Fortified place · Medieval
Haw Hill
Northumberland
Haw Hill is the mound of Morpeth’s first castle, preserving the original de Merlay motte-and-bailey (an early Norman castle of a timber tower on an…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hawarden Castle (18th century)
Flintshire
A plain Georgian mansion built for a country baronet was later reworked into a castellated Gothic house and became the home where Britain's four-ti…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Hawarden Castle (medieval)
Flintshire
Its capture one Easter morning in 1282 lit the fuse for the war that ended Welsh independence: a border stronghold whose fall reshaped a nation's f…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Hawk Stone
Oxfordshire
A Neolithic (the first farming period in Britain, roughly 4000–2500 BC) monolith whose polished hollow records centuries of hopeful hands, and whos…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Hawkesdown Hill
Devon
Hawkesdown Hill is a scheduled Iron Age hillfort: a settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground: above the Axe Estuary, whose surviving…
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Hawkesyard Priory
Staffordshire
A Dominican house under a prior, built between 1896 and 1914 off Armitage Lane, with its church of St Thomas.
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hawridge Court ringwork
Buckinghamshire
One of only around 200 surviving ringworks in Britain, its oval bank and ditch still rise almost to their original height, entrance causeway intact.
- Near Hawridge
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hay Castle
Powys
Attacked and burnt at least five times in three centuries, gutted by fire twice in the twentieth, and opened to the public for the first time in it…
- Near Hay-on-Wye
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hay Tump Castle
Powys
The first castle at Hay, raised within five years of the Battle of Brecon: now a mound beside a cattle market.
- Near Hay-on-Wye
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hayton Castle
Cumbria
A working farmhouse today, the castle carries a shield and inscribed stone slab reading its Musgrave owners' devotion in Latin, and a tradition tha…
- Near Carlisle
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Sacred place · Medieval
Hazleton Abbey
Gloucestershire
A twelfth-century Cistercian foundation so troubled by water shortage that the monks abandoned it for Tetbury within years, leaving only a barn beh…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Hazleton long barrows
Gloucestershire
Genetic analysis of its dead reconstructed one of the earliest known family trees from a population living before written records reached Britain,…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Healaugh Park Priory
North Yorkshire
A working farmhouse near Tadcaster still carries the bones of an Augustinian priory, a monastery run by a prior, inside its walls, its descent trac…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Heaning Wood Bone Cave
Cumbria
A tiny girl buried here roughly 11,000 years ago is among the oldest human burials yet identified in northern England, pushing the region's story b…
- Near Kendal
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Heapstown Cairn
County Sligo
At roughly 60 metres across, Heapstown ranks among Ireland's largest cairns, yet its untouched south-eastern flank may still conceal a passage tomb…
- Near Sligo
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Heart of Neolithic Orkney
Orkney Islands
The Orkney World Heritage group is made up of monuments from the closing Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC, whose remains illuminate the islands’ cha…
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Heath Wood barrow cemetery
Derbyshire
Fifty-nine mounds in a Derbyshire wood mark the only known Scandinavian cremation cemetery in the British Isles, raised by the Viking Great Army it…
- Near Bakewell
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Heathery Burn Cave
County Durham
A single cave near Stanhope yielded over two hundred Late Bronze Age objects: gold, bronze, bone and pottery together: among the richest hoards of…
- Near Stanhope
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Fortified place · Medieval
Heaton Castle
Northumberland
Heaton Castle preserves fragmentary evidence of a de Grey quadrangular castle destroyed in a Scottish raid and adapted into a bastle (a fortified f…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hedingham Castle
Essex
Hedingham Castle contains one of England’s best-preserved Norman keeps, where an exceptional ashlar (smooth-dressed stone laid in even courses)-fac…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Heelstone Ditch
Wiltshire
A narrow, steep-sided trench encircling the Heel Stone whose own relationship to that famous sarsen is still unresolved: did the ditch follow the s…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Heighley Castle
Staffordshire
Held for Charles I, destroyed by Parliament in the 1640s, and now on the Heritage at Risk Register in very bad condition, privately owned and closed.
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Hell Stone
Dorset
Hell Stone is a Neolithic (the first farming period in Britain, roughly 4000–2500 BC) chambered tomb whose visible arrangement is shaped as much by…
- Near Portesham
- Some walking
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Helmsley Bridge
North Yorkshire
The oldest bridge still standing over the River Rye, its narrow medieval arch surviving inside a structure later doubled in width to carry modern t…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Helmsley Castle
North Yorkshire
Helmsley Castle reveals nearly five centuries of adaptation: a Norman timber stronghold rebuilt in stone, reshaped into a Tudor mansion, damaged in…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Helsby hill fort
Cheshire
Helsby’s defended hilltop, occupied in the centuries before Rome arrived, uses sheer sandstone cliffs and double ramparts to command the Cheshire P…
- Near Helsby
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Roman
Hembury
Devon
Hembury is a rare Devon site with occupation spanning a Neolithic causewayed enclosure, an Iron Age hillfort: a defended hilltop settlement of the…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Hembury Castle, Buckfast
Devon
Hembury Castle combines an Iron Age hillfort: a hilltop enclosure ringed by earth ramparts: with a later medieval castle mound on a Dartmoor-edge p…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Hembury Castle, Tythecott
Devon
Hembury Castle near Tythecott preserves an Iron Age hillfort: a defended enclosure on high ground, ringed with banks and ditches: on elevated Devon…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hemyock Castle
Devon
Hemyock Castle preserves the remains of a late medieval quadrangular castle whose short working life, Civil War use and later rebuilding make its d…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hen Domen
Powys
The first Montgomery Castle, abandoned when its replacement was built a mile away: which is why its timber buildings could be excavated at all.
- Near Hendomen
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Hen Gaer
Ceredigion
Hen Gaer’s small fortified enclosure uses a massive defensive bank and rock-cut ditch to command the narrow valley where the Afon Clarach begins.
- Near Bow Street
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hen Gwrt Moated Site
Monmouthshire
A moat built with no defensive purpose at all now guards nothing but empty grass: every trace of the bishops' manor and the Herberts' hunting lodge…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Henblas Burial Chamber
Isle of Anglesey
Henblas Burial Chamber is a Neolithic (the closing Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) dolmen whose unusually massive quartz-rich uprights and displac…
- Near Llangristiolus
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Henderskelfe Castle
North Yorkshire
A four-towered medieval castle that vanished so completely beneath a stately home's gardens that its exact plan was only recovered by television ar…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hereford Castle
Herefordshire
A royal stronghold besieged and recaptured across three centuries of English and Welsh conflict, reduced now to a park lawn crossed by a Nelson mon…
- Near Hereford
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Hereford Cathedral
Herefordshire
Its library holds the largest surviving collection of chained books in the world, alongside the Mappa Mundi, a circa-1300 map of the known world dr…
- Near Hereford
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hermitage Castle
Scottish Borders
A single Border stronghold ties together a witchcraft forfeiture, Mary Queen of Scots' most reckless ride, and generations of Douglas and Hepburn p…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Heronbridge Roman Site
Cheshire
Beneath a quiet Cheshire field lie a Roman quayside, a mass grave possibly tied to a 7th-century battle, and an earthwork (banks and ditches raised…
- Near Chester
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Fortified place · Medieval
Herstmonceux Castle
East Sussex
Herstmonceux is one of England’s earliest major brick castles, repeatedly transformed from fifteenth-century display residence to ruined shell, obs…
- Near Hastings
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hertford Castle
Hertfordshire
A working Tudor gatehouse still stands over a site that held two kings as prisoners and sheltered a queen who died within its walls.
- Near Hertford
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hethpool House
Northumberland
Hethpool House combines an Edwardian country house on Admiral Lord Collingwood’s former seat with the remains of a fourteenth-century pele tower in…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hever Castle
Kent
Hever Castle combines medieval defences with the Boleyn family story, including Anne Boleyn’s early life and Henry VIII’s later ownership.
- Near Hever
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hewelsfield Motte
Gloucestershire
No masonry survives here at all: only earth and a buried ditch mark a Norman stronghold raised over an emptied, then resettled, village.
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Hexham Abbey
Northumberland
Hexham Abbey is a 1,300-year religious site where Wilfrid’s Roman-material Saxon crypt survives beneath a later Augustinian church that became Hexh…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Heynings Priory
Lincolnshire
Its last prioress surrendered a house so poor from its very founding that the exact site of its buildings has since been lost, leaving only a farm…
- Near Knaith
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Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Heysham rock-cut tombs
Lancashire
Eight graves cut straight into the bedrock, some shaped to the human body and fitted with sockets for stone or wooden crosses: a form of burial fou…
- Near Lancaster
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Sacred place · Medieval
Hickling Priory
Norfolk
Hickling Priory was a wealthy Augustinian house with holdings across thirty-two Norfolk parishes, whose collapse after plague and dissolution (Henr…
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
High Bridge, Lincoln
Lincolnshire
The oldest bridge in Britain still carrying standing buildings: a working row of Tudor shops perched on stonework raised eight and a half centuries…
- Near Lincoln
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Building or ruin · Roman
High Dyke (road)
Lincolnshire
A modern B-road that still runs, mile after mile, along the exact line Roman surveyors cut through Lincolnshire two thousand years ago, past the Ro…
- Near Ancaster
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
High Head Castle
Cumbria
A medieval pele tower rebuilt as a Georgian mansion in the 1740s, gutted by fire in 1956, and now being reroofed wing by wing in a slow private eff…
- Near Ivegill
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Building or ruin · Roman
High Street (Lake District)
Cumbria
A 828-metre fell in the Lake District carries a Roman road along its very summit, sunk in a hollow rather than raised on a bank, still puzzling arc…
- Near Kendal
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Highbury Hill, Clutton
Somerset
Three hectares of earthwork - a bank or ditch dug and heaped from the ground itself, with no masonry - at the end of a narrow ridge, under woodland…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Highclere Castle
Hampshire
A Victorian remodelling by the architect of the Houses of Parliament sits over a working estate where Howard Carter's patron once lived, and where…
- Near Winchester
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Highdown Hill
West Sussex
A Late Bronze Age enclosure replaced by a fort of the Iron Age, roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest: and the hill where a miller built his own…
- Near Worthing
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Hill of Fiddes stone circle
Aberdeenshire
Reduced from a full stone circle to two boundary stones in a field wall, the site nonetheless carries the same legal protection as much larger monu…
- Near Ellon
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hillsborough Castle
County Down
Hillsborough Castle is Northern Ireland’s official royal and government residence, where a Georgian country house became a setting for constitution…
- Near Hillsborough
- Some walking
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Hilton of Cadboll Stone
Highland
Broken by a storm, stripped for a memorial, and split between two museums and a modern replica, this Pictish (of the Picts, the people of northern…
- Near Hilton of Cadboll
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Hinckley Priory
Leicestershire
A tiny alien priory, a monastery run by a prior, whose loyalty to a Norman abbey, a monastic house under the rule of an abbot, made it a casualty o…
- Near Hinckley
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Hinton Priory
Somerset
A Carthusian house founded because the monks found their first site insufficiently solitary: and named God's Place.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hinton Waldrist Castle
Oxfordshire
A modest Thames-valley motte-and-bailey (an early Norman form, a timber tower raised on a mound with a walled court beside it) where Mary de Bohun…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Harlow Marsh
Hertfordshire
A medieval moat, scheduled as a nationally important monument, survives quietly inside a modern wetland reserve of reed beds, wildflower meadow and…
- Near Harlow
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Fortified place · Medieval
Harry Avery's Castle
County Tyrone
Harry Avery’s Castle is a rare Gaelic Irish stone castle whose twin D-towers adapt gatehouse imagery into a distinctive late medieval tower house.
- Near Castlederg
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Sacred place · Medieval
Hatfield Regis Priory
Essex
Hatfield Regis Priory records an English Benedictine house negotiating dependence on a Breton mother abbey (a monastery headed by an abbot), aristo…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Haughey's Fort
Armagh
Haughey's Fort is a large late Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC) hilltop enclosure near Armagh, whose concentric ditches preserve an earlier ceremon…
- Near Armagh
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Heel Stone
Wiltshire
A single sarsen block leaning nearly 27 degrees from vertical, with as much of its bulk buried below ground as most people ever see standing above it.
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Helenstowe Nunnery
Oxfordshire
Tradition ties it to a rare paired arrangement: a sister's nunnery and her brother's abbey (a monastery headed by an abbot) standing on opposite hi…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Helston Castle
Cornwall
Helston Castle is a vanished late-thirteenth-century Cornish stronghold known chiefly through sparse medieval references and the surviving topograp…
- Near Helston
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Hempton Priory
Norfolk
Hempton Priory was an Augustinian hospital-priory near Fakenham, where surviving earthworks record a community that combined care, fairs and estate…
- Near Fakenham
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Hengistbury Head
Dorset
Hengistbury Head is an internationally important coastal archaeological landscape, recording human activity from the Upper Palaeolithic through an…
- Near Christchurch
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Hensbarrow Beacon
Cornwall
Hensbarrow Beacon combines a medieval stannary centre, a scheduled beacon cairn (a mound of piled stones, often covering a burial) and the mapping…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
High Peak, Devon
Devon
High Peak is an eroding coastal hillfort: a defended hilltop settlement dating from the Iron Age, roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest: above th…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Higham Gobion Castle
bedfordshire
The earthworks at Higham Gobion were once called a castle, but later research identifies them as a fishery with a breeding island.
- Near Higham Gobion
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Hillsborough, Devon
Devon
Hillsborough preserves a large, partly eroded Iron Age promontory fort: a headland cut off by ramparts to make a defensible enclosure: within an Il…
- Some walking
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