Sacred place · Medieval
Hitchin Priory
Hertfordshire
A Palladian-fronted hotel wraps around a genuine medieval cloister (the covered walkway round a monastery's central courtyard) garth, its blocked m…
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Hoarstones
Shropshire
A stone circle in the parish of Chirbury with Brompton, known also as Hoar Stone Circle.
- Near Shelve
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Hob Hurst's House
Derbyshire
Almost every burial mound in Britain from the Bronze Age, the period from about 2500 to 800 BC, is round; this one on Beeley Moor is rectangular, a…
- Near Bakewell
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hobs Moat
West Midlands
A fortified manor house reduced to bare earthworks, its true age still argued over: traditionally 12th century, yet the pottery and stonework found…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Hobson's Conduit
Cambridgeshire
A working four-way water-splitting system engineered in 1610 still carries chalk-spring water through open street gutters past Cambridge's oldest c…
- Near Cambridge
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hoddom Castle
Dumfries and Galloway
Hoddom Castle is a large Annandale tower house whose Marian-era sieges, later courtyard expansion and surviving watchtower show how Border fortific…
- Near Ecclefechan
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Fortified place · Medieval
Holdgate Castle
Shropshire
A Domesday castle that housed a college of clergy for over a century: and whose one surviving tower is now part of a farmhouse.
- Near Holdgate
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Holford Hall
Cheshire
Holford Hall is a rare surviving fragment of a richly decorated 1601 timber-framed manor, still standing within its moated setting beside the separ…
- Near Plumley
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Fortified place · Medieval
Holland House
Greater London
Holland House is a rare London ruin where a Jacobean country estate, a 19th-century Whig intellectual salon and the destructive legacy of the Blitz…
- Near Kensington
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Hollingbury Castle
East Sussex
Hollingbury preserves a substantial defended settlement dating from from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest on Brighton’s edge, where later exc…
- Near Brighton
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Holm of Papa Westray Chambered Cairn
Orkney Islands
A chambered cairn twenty metres long: a burial tomb of stone-built compartments under a mound: on an uninhabited islet of twenty-one hectares off P…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Holmbury Hill
Surrey
Its double ramparts were cut not just to defend the summit but to announce control over the trade routes through the Weald below.
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Holmcultram Abbey
Cumbria
Founded on land that belonged to Scotland before England reclaimed it, the abbey (a self-governing monastery, its head an abbot) was raided by Robe…
- Near Abbeytown
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Holne Chase Castle
Devon
Holne Chase Castle preserves a defended hilltop position above the River Dart on the northern slopes of Holne Chase in Devon.
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Holt Castle
Wrexham
Barely a fragment of its sandstone base survives, yet Holt once formed a five-towered, moat-ringed pentagon on the Dee: fierce enough in appearance…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Holy Sepulchre Priory, Thetford
Norfolk
Holy Sepulchre Priory preserves the only surviving English remains of a Canons of the Holy Sepulchre priory, linking a fourteenth-century Thetford…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Holy Trinity Abbey, Lough Key
County Roscommon
A canon-scribed chronicle of Irish history and the tomb behind one of Connacht's best-known tragic love stories both survive on this one small lake…
- Near Boyle
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
Holy Trinity Church, Colchester
Essex
Holy Trinity Church is Colchester’s oldest standing building and its only surviving Anglo-Saxon structure, preserving a rare Saxon tower, later med…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Holy Trinity Church, Cork
County Cork
A single-parish campaign of ordinary Corkonians, spread across sixty years and a famine, finally raised a tapering Gothic spire on marshy quayside…
- Near Cork
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Holy Trinity Church, Westbury on Trym
Bristol
Its 10th-century Benedictine community, briefly reformed by Bishop Oswald, was the seed from which Ramsey Abbey grew after Oswald relocated its mon…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Holy Trinity Priory
City of London
A queen's own foundation that grew powerful enough for its prior to sit as an Alderman of London, yet vanished so completely that only a few pointe…
- Near London
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Sacred place · Medieval
Holy Well, Malvern
Worcestershire
Believed to be the site of the world's oldest commercial water-bottling operation, with production recorded here since 1622 and revived again in 2009.
- Some walking
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Holyhead Mountain Hut Circles
Isle of Anglesey
Holyhead Mountain Hut Circles are one of Wales’s best-preserved prehistoric (predating the written record in Britain) settlement groups, with recon…
- Near Holyhead
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Holyrood Abbey
City of Edinburgh
Holyrood Abbey is Edinburgh's ruined royal abbey, founded by David I and central to Scottish parliaments, coronations and palace life before a cata…
- Near Edinburgh
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hope Castle
County Monaghan
A Georgian mansion that passed from a Welsh baron to a diamond-owning banking dynasty to a royal duke, only to be gutted by an arson attack after d…
- Near Monaghan
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Sacred place · Medieval
Hope Church of All Saints
Kent
This Romney Marsh church ruin offers physical evidence of a lost medieval parish and possible deserted village, now interpreted through a sculpture…
- Near New Romney
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hopton Castle
Shropshire
A castle midway between Knighton and Craven Arms, a ruin since the early eighteenth century and since partly repaired.
- Near Hopton Castle
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Hordron Edge stone circle
Derbyshire
Only ten of a ring some believe once held 26 stones survive above Ladybower reservoir: three of them lying hidden and unnoticed until 1992.
- Near Bakewell
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Hore Abbey
County Tipperary
The last Cistercian house founded in Ireland before the monasteries closed under Henry VIII, Hore Abbey sits beside a ridge whose medieval cathedra…
- Near Cashel
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Horkstow Roman villa
Lincolnshire
Its buried pavement yielded one of only thirteen known Orpheus mosaics from Roman Britain, and one of just two found this far north.
- Near Horkstow
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hornby Castle, Lancashire
Lancashire
A single peer's forgotten warning about the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 links this Lune Valley house directly to the most notorious conspiracy in Englis…
- Near Hornby
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hornby Castle, North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire
A Yorkshire seat passed by marriage through five families in six centuries, from the St Quintins to the Dukes of Leeds, before three-quarters of th…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Hornby Priory
Lancashire
A small Premonstratensian cell answering to Croxton Abbey nearly 150 miles away, its founding credited across three generations of one family befor…
- Near Hornby
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Horse Pool Camp
Somerset
An oval hillfort twice as long as it is wide, on the Devon border: and almost nothing else is recorded about it.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Horsford Castle
Norfolk
Horsford Castle is a low but significant castle mound and enclosed yard whose post-Conquest foundation, deliberate placement in pastureland, linked…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Horsley Priory
Gloucestershire
A tiny Norman-founded cell built for just a prior, a monk and a chaplain, traded between two mother houses and then erased from record before 1380…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Horston Castle
Derbyshire
A royal stone castle reduced to a single overgrown keep by centuries of quarrying: and now formally listed among England's heritage most at risk of…
- Near Bakewell
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Sacred place · Medieval
Hospital of St John the Baptist, High Wycombe
Buckinghamshire
A 12th-century almshouse chapel became, without ever moving site, the seedbed of a Royal Grammar School still teaching boys eight centuries later.
- Near High Wycombe
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Howley Hall
West Yorkshire
The ruins of an Elizabethan country house between Batley and Morley, scheduled since 1997.
- Near Morley
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Hoxne Priory
Suffolk
Built at what was held to be the place where Edmund, king of East Anglia, was martyred. The chapel came first, around 950, and a priory: a monaster…
- Near Hoxne
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Fortified place · Roman
Huckhoe Settlement
Northumberland
Huckhoe Settlement records at least four occupation phases across more than a millennium, from one of the region’s earliest defended enclosures to…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hull Castle
East Riding of Yorkshire
An entire Tudor artillery fortress, built partly with stone stripped from dissolved monasteries, has vanished beneath a working dockyard, leaving o…
- Near Beverley
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Sacred place · Medieval
Hulne Priory
Northumberland
Hulne Priory is a rare Northumberland Carmelite foundation whose substantial ruins combine contemplative friary, a religious house for the order, l…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Hulton Abbey
Staffordshire
A former monastery in Stoke-on-Trent, now protected by law for its archaeology.
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Humberston Abbey
Lincolnshire
A rare case where a bishop's own 1422 testimony ties an English abbey (a monastic house under the rule of an abbot)'s monks directly back to a name…
- Near Humberston
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Ancient place · Iron Age
Humbleton Hill
Northumberland
Humbleton Hill combines a long settlement sequence from before written records with the site of the 1402 Battle of Homildon Hill, layering early, l…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Hundatorra
Devon
Hundatorra is a rare Dartmoor landscape where Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking spread) settlement, a medieval farming hamlet and…
- Near Exeter
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Building or ruin · Roman
Hunnum
Northumberland
Hunnum, or Halton Chesters, is a Hadrian’s Wall cavalry fort whose unusual L-shaped expansion and internal bath complex reveal changing garrison ne…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Hunsbury Hill
Northamptonshire
Its inner ramparts were burned so fiercely that timber-laced stone fused together: vitrification almost never found on an English hillfort (a defen…
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Hunter's Hill Stone
Angus
Its rear face still carries an older set of incised symbols beneath a later relief-carved cross: one of only two stones nearby known to have been r…
- Near Glamis
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Hunter's Tor, Lustleigh Cleave
Devon
Hunter’s Tor combines a granite Dartmoor viewpoint with an Iron Age (from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest) hillfort (a hilltop enclosure rin…
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Huntersquoy chambered cairn
Orkney Islands
An exceptionally rare two-storey tomb, its opposed entrances and flooded lower chamber reveal two burial spaces stacked within one small Eday mound.
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Huntingdon Castle
Cambridgeshire
A royal stronghold once held by the kings of Scotland themselves, deliberately torn down on Henry II's orders after a rebellion: leaving only its m…
- Near Huntingdon
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Fortified place · Medieval
Huntington Castle
Herefordshire
A Marcher stronghold that changed hands by conquest, marriage and royal seizure for two centuries, ending as a ruin still listed at risk today.
- Near Huntington
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Huntingtower Castle
Perth and Kinross
The Ruthven name was suppressed by Act of Parliament in 1600, and the castle had to be renamed. It had been Ruthven Castle for centuries.
- Near Perth
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Huntsham Castle
Devon
Huntsham Castle is a well-defined hillfort, a hilltop enclosure from the Iron Age, the centuries before Rome arrived, above the Lowman tributary va…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Hurley Priory
Berkshire
A Norman priory church still in parish use stands beside a working medieval dovecote, barn and inn: a rare case where almost every part of a monast…
- Near Hurley
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hurst Castle
Hampshire
A single shingle spit carries four centuries of continuous coastal defence, from Henry VIII's Device Fort to Victorian rifled monster guns to Secon…
- Near Milford-on-Sea
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Hyde Abbey
Hampshire
A Winchester prison's foundation trenches once turned up stone coffins, a gilded crozier and the disturbed grave of England's most famous early kin…
- Near Winchester
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Hygga House Dovecote, Trellech
Monmouthshire
This unusually complete late-sixteenth-century dovecote preserves the scale and organisation of a gentry estate, and scholars identified it as one…
- Near Trellech
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hylton Castle
Tyne and Wear
A castle datable only by the coats of arms carved along its west front.
- Near Sunderland
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Hypocaust Museum
Hertfordshire
A Roman underfloor heating system preserved exactly where excavators found it, and unlike its counterpart at Welwyn, one that warmed a house rather…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Ightham Mote
Kent
Ightham Mote is an exceptionally complete medieval moated manor, whose inward-facing courtyard plan and original features reveal how a defended hou…
- Near Ightham
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Building or ruin · Roman
Ilkley Roman Fort
West Yorkshire
Its Roman name is disputed. Ptolemy's Olikana may be corrupt, may belong to another fort entirely, or the place may have been called after the rive…
- Near Ilkley
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Illauntannig Monastic Site
County Kerry
A cluster of beehive cells, oratories and a carved stone cross survives almost whole inside a drystone island wall: a rare complete early Christian…
- Near Dingle
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Ince Manor
Cheshire
One of only two surviving monastic manor buildings left in Cheshire, its stone hall and cottages saved from ruin by a 1990s-2002 restoration after…
- Near Ince
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Fortified place · Medieval
Inch Castle
County Donegal
Built by a son-in-law for his own father-in-law, the ruin sealed a marriage alliance between two of Gaelic Ulster's most powerful clans: and is sti…
- Near Inch
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Inchcolm Abbey
Fife
Inchcolm Abbey is Scotland’s most complete surviving monastic complex, preserving an Augustinian island community whose buildings also reveal the F…
- Near St Andrews
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Sacred place · Medieval
Inchmacnerin Abbey
County Roscommon
A monastery reputedly founded by Columba on its own island in Lough Key, later refounded as an Augustinian priory, a monastery headed by a prior an…
- Near Roscommon
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Fortified place · Roman
Inchtuthil
Perth and Kinross
The only legionary fortress in the Roman empire whose complete plan survives: abandoned after four years, with 875,400 nails buried in a pit so the…
- Near Dunkeld
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Roman
Inchtuthil / Castra Pinnata
Moray
A Roman fortress whose longest day Ptolemy recorded as 18.5 hours, one of only four such observations he held from Britain.
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Settlement · Medieval
Ingarsby
Leicestershire
One of England's best-preserved deserted medieval villages, its earthworks tracing streets abandoned when the abbey (a religious community led by a…
- Near Hungarton
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Inishkeel
County Donegal
A monastery reachable only by a sandy tidal path once held the bell of its founding saint: now in the British Museum, an ocean's width from the rui…
- Near Glenties
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Inishmaine Abbey
County Mayo
Refounded for an Augustinian community of nuns after 1223, on the site of a seventh-century monastic foundation, this Lough Mask ruin was later dis…
- Near Lough Mask
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Inishmurray
County Sligo
A monastery founded by Saint Columba's own confessor, raided twice by Vikings, then resettled, farmed and finally evacuated entire in 1948: the isl…
- Near Sligo
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Inislounaght Abbey
County Tipperary
Its dismantled stone still stands elsewhere: reused in Clonmel's Main Guard and in local mills: while the abbey (a religious community led by an ab…
- Near Clonmel
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Fortified place · Medieval
Inkberrow Castle
Worcestershire
A castle raised sometime under the Angevin kings and pulled down within a lifetime: its true walls now reduced to a moat whose very origin is dispu…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Innes Chonnel Castle
Argyll and Bute
A rival Highland clan once held this island fortress against Robert the Bruce himself, and a captive heir to the Lordship of the Isles later spent…
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Inschfield stone circle
Aberdeenshire
Only three stones survive from a ring that once spanned some 27 metres: a fragment of Aberdeenshire's rare recumbent stone circle tradition, now le…
- Near Insch
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Inshlampie Broch
Highland
A drystone tower mound perched between two ravines above the river Naver, ringed by cairns, hut circles and settlement traces that together form on…
- Near Bettyhill
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Inveraray Castle
Argyll and Bute
One of the first Gothic Revival buildings anywhere, raised by a Highland clan chief to replace a medieval stronghold rather than restore it.
- Near Inveraray
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Roman
Inveravon
Falkirk
Inveravon is one of the Antonine Wall’s most uncertain fort sites, where limited excavation, geophysics and aerial photography reveal faint foundat…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Roman
Inveresk Roman Fort
East Lothian
Inveresk is a large Antonine-period fort with a civilian settlement, cavalry evidence and Britain’s earliest dated Mithraeum, making it one of Scot…
- Near Dunbar
- Some walking
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Hod Hill
Dorset
Hod Hill is a large Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) fort with a short-lived Roman camp inside it, combining Durotrigan settlemen…
- Near Stourpaine
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Hogshaw Nunnery
Buckinghamshire
A modest Buckinghamshire nunnery that, by the 15th century, had been recast as a commandery bearing the name of the Knights Templar.
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Holbury, Holbeton
Devon
Holbury records an Iron Age hillfort: an upland enclosure defended by earthen banks: overlooking the Erme Estuary, preserving a strategically place…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Holkham Camp
norfolk
An oval enclosure on a sandy spit, reachable only by eye: the site is not normally walkable, and is watched from a bird hide in the woods to the no…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Hollybush Hill
Herefordshire
One hillfort spans two summits: its earthworks run unbroken from Hollybush Hill onto neighbouring Midsummer Hill, binding the pair into a single de…
- Near Hollybush
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Holywell Priory
Greater London
Holywell Priory was a long-lived Augustinian house of women in Shoreditch whose former precinct later hosted The Theatre, the playhouse whose timbe…
- Near Shoreditch
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Holywood Priory
County Down
Holywood Priory layers a pre-640 monastic foundation with Anglo-Norman, Franciscan and parish-church phases, preserving a rare long religious conti…
- Near Holywood
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Sacred place · Medieval
Hornchurch Priory
Greater London
Hornchurch Priory was a small alien house that shaped the spiritual and landholding life of Havering for more than two centuries before its estates…
- Near Hornchurch
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Hound Tor
Devon
Hound Tor brings together a weathered Dartmoor granite tor, a deserted medieval settlement and nearby prehistoric (from the era before writing arri…
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Roman
Housesteads Roman Fort
Northumberland
Housesteads is one of Hadrian’s Wall’s best-preserved forts, dramatically placed on the Whin Sill and revealing nearly three centuries of garrison…
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Howick house
Northumberland
Howick House is an exceptionally early Mesolithic (the middle Stone Age, roughly 9000–4000 BC) dwelling site whose substantial post holes, hearths,…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Huntington Castle, Clonegal
County Carlow
Huntington Castle layers a fifteenth-century Irish tower house, seventeenth-century plantation history and a later country-house landscape into one…
- Near Clonegal
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Inch Abbey
County Down
Inch Abbey preserves a Cistercian refoundation on an older Quoile monastery site, linking Viking attack, Anglo-Norman penance, English monastic net…
- Near Downpatrick
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Innisidgen
Cornwall
Innisidgen preserves two Bronze Age entrance graves: roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking spread: on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, where well-prese…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Invereen Stone
Highland
Invereen’s accidental discovery saved a precisely carved Pictish stone: of the Picts, the people of northern and eastern Scotland from about AD 300…
- Near Aviemore
- Easy path
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