Fortified place · Medieval
Ludlow Castle
Shropshire
Ludlow Castle grew from one of England’s first masonry castles into the administrative capital of Wales and the Marches; its surviving chapel, hall…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Luffness Castle
East Lothian
Luffness preserves a house within a former fortification, where medieval Lindsay power, a short-lived 1549 French–Scottish fort and later country-h…
- Near Dunbar
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Lugbury Long Barrow
Wiltshire
A false doorway: a capstone leaning on two uprights, leading nowhere. The real chambers held twenty-six people.
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Lullingstone Roman Villa
Kent
Lullingstone Roman Villa combines a high-status Darent Valley residence, major mythological mosaics and an exceptionally early British Christian ho…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Lulworth Castle
Dorset
Lulworth Castle is a rare Jacobean mock fortress whose long Weld-family history includes royal and exiled guests, a pioneering post-Reformation (th…
- Near East Lulworth
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Lumley Castle
County Durham
A manor house turned fortress in 1389 whose builder was executed within a decade for plotting against a king: and whose castle still bears his fami…
- Near Chester-le-Street
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Roman
Lunt Roman Fort
Warwickshire
A Roman fort of unknown name on the south-eastern edge of Coventry, now open to the public.
- Near Coventry
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Lydney Park
Gloucestershire
Lydney Park brings together a Bathurst country estate and one of Britain’s most evocative Romano-Celtic temple complexes, where the cult of Nodens,…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Lympne Castle
Kent
Lympne Castle is a Grade I listed fortified manor that preserves an archdeacon’s medieval residence above Romney Marsh, rebuilt in the 1360s beside…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Lyneham Longbarrow
Oxfordshire
A long burial mound beside the A361, with a standing stone 1.8 metres high at its end.
- Near Lyneham
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Carved stone · Medieval
Mab's Cross
Greater Manchester
Mab’s Cross is a surviving medieval Wigan waymarker whose later association with Lady Mabel Bradshaigh shows how local legend can attach to a real…
- Near Wigan
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
MacDuff's Castle
Fife
MacDuff’s Castle preserves the changing fortunes of Fife’s medieval elite, from the MacDuff earls and Wemyss family to Colville rebuilding, while i…
- Near St Andrews
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Machrie Moor Stone Circles
North Ayrshire
Machrie Moor gathers stone circles, burials and earlier timber settings into an exceptional prehistoric (before any written account of Britain exis…
- Near Machrie
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Mackworth Castle
Derbyshire
A single battlemented gatehouse is almost all that survives of a manor house grand enough to be mistaken for a castle: and historians still argue o…
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Fortified place · Medieval
MacLellan's Castle
Dumfries and Galloway
MacLellan’s Castle is a late sixteenth-century Scottish L-plan tower house whose unfinished rooms and ‘Laird’s Lug’ reveal elite domestic life in K…
- Near Newton Stewart
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Madeley Old Manor
Staffordshire
Edward III licensed its owner to make a castle of it in 1348 and made him a founder Knight of the Garter weeks later. The family lost it to an exec…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Madron Well and Madron Well Chapel
Cornwall
Madron Well and its ruined chapel combine an early Christian sacred landscape, a once vital water source and enduring Cornish traditions of healing…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Madryn Castle
Gwynedd
Madryn Castle represents a layered Llŷn estate history: an early castle tradition, a Tudor house, a later Gothic rebuilding and a surviving Grade I…
- Near Bangor
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Maen Achwyfan
flintshire
The tallest wheel cross in Britain, 3.4 metres from a single block, carved with a naked man treading on a snake: and nobody has agreed in three cen…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Maen Castle
Cornwall
Maen Castle is a coastal Iron Age promontory fort: a coastal spur defended by banks thrown across its neck, the centuries before Rome arrived, from…
- Near Penzance
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Maen Huail
Denbighshire
A humble market stone was recast by folklore as the execution block where King Arthur beheaded a rival: legend layered onto stone centuries after i…
- Near Denbigh
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Maen Llia
Powys
A diamond of Old Red Sandstone, twelve feet high, whose evening shadow reaches the river between April and September - which is probably the source…
- Near Ystradfellte
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Maen Madoc
Powys
A ten-foot stone beside a Roman road, inscribed for a man called Dervacus: and named after a Madoc nobody can identify.
- Near Ystradfellte
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Maenan Abbey
Conwy
A Cistercian house forcibly moved by Edward I, dissolved in 1537 and largely dismantled, with medieval cloister (the covered walkway round a monast…
- Near Conwy
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Maes Knoll
Somerset
An Iron Age defended settlement on the Dundry Down ridge south of Bristol, known also as Maes Tump.
- Near Norton Malreward
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Maesbury Castle
Somerset
A hillfort whose name is half Welsh and half English: recorded in 705 as the boundary fort, on the frontier it describes.
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Magazine Gateway
Leicestershire
A medieval gatehouse that once guarded a religious precinct now stands marooned on a traffic island, its rooms having served as prison, militia hal…
- Near Leicester
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Magdalen Hill Down
Hampshire
A chalk hillside east of Winchester carries three unconnected pasts in one place: a Bronze Age burial line, a medieval leper hospital turned First…
- Near Winchester
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Magnis (Kenchester)
Herefordshire
Its Roman name outlived the town itself: the Mercian sub-kingdom that absorbed this ground, the Magonsaete, took its own name directly from Magnis.
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Building or ruin · Roman
Magpie Mine
Derbyshire
Derbyshire's last working lead mine, closed in 1958, survives with its Cornish engine house, twin chimneys and winding drum intact rather than demo…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Maiden Bower hillfort
Bedfordshire
A 1913 dig found a pit packed with the disarticulated bones of some fifty people, sealed inside an entrance cut through a rampart, a defensive emba…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Maiden Bradley Priory
Wiltshire
Its last prior's own words to Henry VIII's commissioners: six children, a claimed papal licence to keep a mistress, and a boast about the Glastonbu…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Maiden Castle, Cheshire
Cheshire
One of only seven Iron Age hillforts in Cheshire, and the outlier of the group: its double bank was judged unusually strong defence for so small a…
- Near Chester
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Maiden Castle, Dorset
Dorset
Maiden Castle is Britain’s largest hillfort, a defended settlement on high ground, and a vast prehistoric, from before written records reached Brit…
- Near Dorchester
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Maiden Castle, Durham
County Durham
An Iron Age promontory fort (a headland cut off by ramparts to make a defensible enclosure) east of Durham whose steep slopes and surviving earthwo…
- Near Durham
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Maiden Castle, North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire
Possibly one of only two banjo enclosures in northern England, entered along a rare funnelled avenue whose original purpose still divides archaeolo…
- Rough ground
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Maiden Stone
Aberdeenshire
A slab of red granite standing some three metres high, carved on every face with Christian crosses, Pictish beasts and a legend of the Devil's forf…
- Near Inverurie
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Maiden's Bower
County Durham
A prehistoric burial mound: from from the era before writing arrived in these islands: became a medieval battle standard: Durham's monks raised St…
- Near Durham
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Mallow Castle
County Cork
Three castles on one site: a thirteenth-century ruin, a fortified house built for defence in the round, and a Victorian mansion.
- Near Mallow
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Malmesbury Abbey
Wiltshire
One of England's few religious houses with continuous life from the 7th century to the Dissolution (Henry VIII's closure of the monasteries in the…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Malmesbury Castle
Wiltshire
The monks petitioned King John to have it demolished, and he agreed. Archaeology has still not found where in the town it stood.
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Malmsmead Bridge
Devon
Malmsmead Bridge is a small seventeenth-century crossing whose position over Badgworthy Water makes it a shared monument of both Somerset and Devon…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Malton Castle
North Yorkshire
Fought over by English and Scottish kings alike, Malton was seized, slighted and finally destroyed by Robert the Bruce: yet its gatehouse still sta…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Malton Priory
North Yorkshire
The only church of the Gilbertine order: England's sole native monastic order: still used for regular worship, though its tower, transepts and chan…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Mam Tor
Derbyshire
The summit rampart is being eaten by the hillside it stands on: the landslip behind the hill's "Shivering Mountain" nickname has been gnawing at th…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Mannan Castle
County Monaghan
Its builders raised a Norman fortress directly over the traditional capital of the Gaelic kingdom of Airgíalla, turning the site itself into a decl…
- Near Castleblayney
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Manor Farmhouse, Crick
Monmouthshire
In July 1645, as the First English Civil War drew to its end, Nicholas Moore twice sheltered the fugitive king Charles I here: a private manor brie…
- Near Crick
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Fortified place · Medieval
Manorbier Castle
Pembrokeshire
A Norman castle founded in the late eleventh century by the Anglo-Norman de Barry family, south-west of Tenby.
- Near Manorbier
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Manorbier Dovecote
Pembrokeshire
A twelfth- or thirteenth-century dovecote within the castle estate, listed Grade II*.
- Near Manorbier
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Marden Henge
Wiltshire
Built from earth and timber rather than stone, Britain's largest known henge shaped its boundary around the River Avon: a landscape logic unmatched…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Margam Abbey
Neath Port Talbot
Margam Abbey preserves a Cistercian foundation with an active medieval intellectual legacy, including the Annales de Margan, within a church and ru…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Margam Castle
Neath Port Talbot
Margam Castle is a Grade I Tudor Revival house built by wealth from the early Port Talbot development, embedded in a 4,000-year estate landscape an…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Margam Roman villa
Neath Port Talbot
Margam Roman villa is evidence for the largest known Roman villa in Wales, preserved beneath an unploughed deer park within a wider historic estate.
- Near Port Talbot
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Margam Stones Museum
Neath Port Talbot
Margam Stones Museum holds one of Britain’s most important local collections of early Christian carving: 17 pre-Norman stones and later memorials t…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Margidunum
Nottinghamshire
Margidunum’s Fosse Way settlement outlived Roman rule by a century, preserving evidence for a frontier post that became a durable small town.
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Sacred place · Medieval
Marham Abbey
Norfolk
Marham Abbey records a small Cistercian nunnery founded by an aristocratic woman, whose limited wealth placed it in the first 1536 wave of dissolut…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Markby Priory
Lincolnshire
A 1438 visitation record survives in unusual, damning detail: debts, drink and scandal in a house the bishop judged worse-kept than any other in th…
- Near Markby
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Fortified place · Medieval
Markenfield Hall
North Yorkshire
A moated manor still owned by battlements first licensed in 1310, its restored chapel hosted a wedding in 2001: the first since 1487.
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Markyate Priory
Hertfordshire
A Benedictine nunnery that grew from the hiding place of a woman who fled an arranged marriage in men's clothing, and whose life became one of the…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Marlborough Castle
Wiltshire
The mound beneath Marlborough Castle was raised around 2400 BC, making the Norman stronghold that came later only the latest occupant of a monument…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Marshwood Castle
Dorset
Marshwood Castle is a scheduled remnant of the medieval Honour of Marshwood, where motte-and-bailey (an early Norman castle of a timber tower on an…
- Near Marshwood
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Martin Down Enclosure
Hampshire
This modest rectangular bank on Martin Down gave its name to an entire class of Bronze Age settlement: everything now called a "Martin Down style e…
- Near Winchester
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Masham Market Cross
North Yorkshire
Masham Market Cross keeps a medieval market-place landmark legible through its surviving base, later shaft, and formal protection as both listed st…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Mathrafal
Powys
The capital of Powys for some three hundred years, abandoned for Welshpool in 1212 and destroyed the year after.
- Near Llanfair Caereinion
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Sacred place · Medieval
Mattersey Priory
Nottinghamshire
Mattersey’s isolated male Gilbertine community carried on for centuries without rebuilding its church after the 1279 fire, later relying on royal m…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Maudlin Castle
County Kilkenny
Maudlin Castle is the defensive remnant of one of medieval Ireland's principal leper hospitals, where a later tower house preserves the difficult s…
- Near Kilkenny
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Maumbury Rings
Dorset
Maumbury Rings is a rare Dorchester monument repeatedly reinvented: a late Stone Age enclosure, Roman amphitheatre, Civil War artillery fort, execu…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Maxey Castle
Cambridgeshire
Maxey’s double-moated manor earthworks preserve the wetland setting of a late medieval fortified house, briefly home to Margaret Beaufort before he…
- Near Maxey
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Maxstoke Castle
Warwickshire
A chair on which Henry VII was crowned after Bosworth, and the table the Gunpowder Plot was planned around, are both in this house.
- Near Maxstoke
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Maxstoke Priory
Warwickshire
Maxstoke preserves an unusually complete fourteenth-century Augustinian precinct, including buried waterworks and a moated manor, but its standing…
- Near Maxstoke
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Mayburgh Henge
Cumbria
Its ring was raised from river cobbles rather than dug as a ditch-and-bank earthwork, a construction method that sets it apart from almost every ot…
- Near Penrith
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Maynooth Castle
County Kildare
Maynooth’s gatehouse and Solar Tower are the survivors of the Fitzgerald earls’ principal residence, damaged in the rebellion that ended their medi…
- Near Maynooth
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
McDermott's Castle
County Roscommon
A 2019 dig beneath the visible ruin found an older, far thicker wall and Gaelic finds spanning six centuries: proof the island was refortified agai…
- Near Boyle
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Building or ruin · Roman
Luentinum
Carmarthenshire
In the early 1970s the River Cothi cut into its own bank near Pumsaint in Carmarthenshire and exposed a stamped Samian ware inkwell. That single fi…
- Near Carmarthen
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Tomb or burial place · Roman
Lullingstone Country Park
Kent
Few country parks combine a Domesday deer-park inheritance, Roman pottery, Second World War decoy works, and veteran trees supporting nationally ra…
- Near Lullingstone
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Sacred place · Medieval
Lulworth Abbey
Dorset
Lulworth Abbey briefly sheltered refugee French Trappist monks after the French Revolution, recording a small but vivid episode of international mo…
- Near East Lulworth
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Lunnasting stone
Shetland Islands
The Lunnasting stone is a slab of slate, 44 inches (1.1 m) long, about 13 inches (0.33 m) wide and just an inch (2.5 cm) thick, carrying an ogham i…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Lydford Castle
Devon
Lydford Castle charts Norman control, medieval tin and forest law, imprisonment and the long afterlife of ‘Lydford Law’ in one of England’s earlies…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Lyminster Priory
West Sussex
A house of Benedictine nuns, possibly a Saxon royal minster: originally a missionary church; now kept as a title of honour: before that, whose chur…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Macosquin Abbey
County Londonderry
Macosquin was a Cistercian daughter house of Morimond whose medieval fabric vanished, leaving a thirteenth-century church window at its successor s…
- Near Macosquin
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Fortified place · Medieval
Macroom Castle
County Cork
A Muskerry lordship castle reshaped by war, confiscation and nineteenth-century town planning, with its gatehouse and river-side ruins still embedd…
- Near Macroom
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Maelmin Henge
Northumberland
Maelmin Henge is a modern, research-based reconstruction that makes the Neolithic (the first farming age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) and Early Bronze Ag…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Magnis (Carvoran)
Northumberland
Magnis at Carvoran is a pre-Hadrianic road fort whose rare Hamian archers, civilian settlement, and Roman Army Museum preserve the military life of…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Mahee Castle
County Down
Mahee Castle is a compact Strangford Lough tower house whose causeway position, layered archaeology, and twentieth-century repairs reveal a changin…
- Near Comber
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Mallabeny
County Tyrone
Mallabeny’s large Scheduled hillfort (a hilltop enclosure ringed by earth ramparts) preserves a substantial ancient enclosure within a small County…
- Near Dungannon
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Sacred place · Medieval
Maltby Preceptory
Lincolnshire
Two conflicting medieval accounts disagree on which military order founded this Lincolnshire house first: the Hospitallers directly, or the Templar…
- Near Maltby
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Building or ruin · Roman
Manduessedum
Warwickshire
Up to seventy Roman pottery kilns have been found here. Boudica's final battle may have been fought nearby.
- Near Mancetter
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Manor Farm, Ruislip
Greater London
Manor Farm, Ruislip is an unusually complete public medieval farm landscape, combining a Norman-era moat, a 13th-century aisled barn and a manorial…
- Near Ruislip
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Manor of Scadbury
Greater London
The Manor of Scadbury links medieval Chislehurst, the Walsingham family and Christopher Marlowe to a 300-acre nature reserve, preserving a former e…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Margaret's Castle
County Down
Margaret’s Castle is a protected fifteenth-century tower-house fragment whose turrets, murder-hole and vaulted ground floor help explain Ardglass’s…
- Near Ardglass
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Margery Hill
South Yorkshire
A moorland summit whose stone cairn (a mound of piled stones, often covering a burial) turned out, on dating, to be a deliberately built Bronze Age…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Markree Castle
County Sligo
A Cooper family seat on the River Unshin whose nineteenth-century observatory hosted the world's largest refracting telescope and discovered astero…
- Near Sligo
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Marland Grange
Greater Manchester
Marland Grange records the long agricultural reach of Cistercian abbeys around Rochdale, even though its buildings have disappeared and their exact…
- Near Rochdale
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Marmont Priory
Norfolk
Marmont Priory was a tiny Gilbertine chantry whose 1204 foundation joined private commemoration, King John’s provision for Eleanor of Aquitaine’s s…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Marsh Barton Priory
Devon
Marsh Barton Priory records a small Augustinian house whose Exeter property and dissolution (Henry VIII's closure of the monasteries in the 1530s)…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Martinstown Castle
County Westmeath
Its close resemblance to Talbot's Castle in Trim is the main evidence for dating this ruin, making it a rare architectural echo of a documented Mea…
- Near Delvin
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Marton Priory
North Yorkshire
Marton Priory’s surviving mill earthworks and reused masonry preserve a rare material trace of an Augustinian double house dissolved in 1536.
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Settlement · Medieval
Massereene Lower
Antrim
Massereene Lower is a County Antrim barony with Ireland's largest documented concentration of ringforts, making this administrative landscape unusu…
- Near Antrim
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Sacred place · Medieval
Maumanorig
county-kerry
Within a circular enclosure, Maumanorig gathers a church site, hut remains, grave markers and an inscribed stone that names Colmán the pilgrim.
- Near Dingle
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Sacred place · Medieval
Mayne Preceptory
Dorset
Mayne Preceptory records the Knights Hospitaller’s medieval presence in Dorset, whose estates changed the name of Friar Mayne and supported a wider…
- Near Broadmayne
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