Building or ruin · Roman
Alchester
Oxfordshire
Fields near Wendlebury conceal one of the earliest legionary fortresses built in Britain after the AD 43 invasion, commanded by the future emperor…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Alderley Edge Mines
Cheshire
A carbon-dated wooden shovel and a buried hoard of Roman coins pushed this copper working's story back nearly four thousand years, from Victorian t…
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Alderman's Barrow
Somerset
An ancient burial mound that later became a meeting point for four Exmoor parishes, carrying its changing place-name through centuries of local bou…
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Aldermaston Lock
Berkshire
Its scalloped brick chamber still carries a single line of blue brick marking where a cheaper, lower wall once stood before 1984.
- Near Aldermaston
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Aldford Castle
Cheshire
A scheduled Norman stronghold whose founder and true age are still disputed, remembered locally not by name but as Blobb Hill.
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Building or ruin · Roman
Alfred's Castle
Oxfordshire
Low banks behind Ashdown Park enclose a small prehistoric (before written records reached Britain) site later tied to Alfred's legend. Alfred's Cas…
- Near Ashdown
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Settlement · Medieval
Alkmonton medieval settlement
Derbyshire
A leper hospital and a baron's chapel once stood here; both vanished, leaving only grassy platforms, sunken lanes and a recovered font as trace of…
- Near Bakewell
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Ancient place · Iron Age
All Cannings Cross
Wiltshire
A ploughed field's scatter of hammerstones led to the discovery of the site that first revealed how Britain's Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when…
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Sacred place · Medieval
All Saints Church, Segenhoe
Bedfordshire
Cobblestone walls raised soon after the Norman Conquest still stand, telling of a parish that outgrew its old church - yet never stopped burying it…
- Near Ridgmont
- Easy path
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Sacred place
All Saints Pastoral Centre
Hertfordshire
A convent chapel where two generations of one architect family worked forty years apart, now standing empty and named among the UK's most endangere…
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Sacred place · Medieval
All Saints' Church, Llangar
Denbighshire
Its wall paintings show the seven deadly sins each riding an animal, a device found in only three churches in Britain, and its abandonment in 1856…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Allesley Castle
West Midlands
A single earthen mound and ditch: never excavated: is all that survives of a castle whose builder and century remain disputed, now listed on Englan…
- Near Coventry
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Allington Castle
Kent
Allington Castle is a layered Medway fortress whose unauthorised 12th-century origin, Tudor long gallery, Wyatt rebellion, long ruin and sensitive…
- Near Maidstone
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Fortified place · Medieval
Alloa Tower
Clackmannanshire
Alloa Tower is one of Scotland’s earliest and largest tower houses, retaining its timber roof and battlements from a long Erskine family residence.
- Near Alloa
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Allt yr Esgair
Powys
A ridge above the Usk carrying an Iron Age hillfort on its summit and a Roman road along its crest: two military uses of the same high ground, cent…
- Near Bwlch
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Alnesbourne Priory
Suffolk
A small Augustinian house near Nacton above the Orwell, probably founded in the thirteenth century.
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Sacred place · Medieval
Alnwick Abbey
Northumberland
Alnwick Abbey’s surviving gatehouse gives tangible scale to a Premonstratensian community whose medieval hospitality served nobles, gentry and more…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Alnwick Castle
Northumberland
Alnwick Castle guards a crossing of the River Aln in Northumberland, its battlements crowned with carved stone figures: sentinels that have watched…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Alton Abbey
Hampshire
A monastery whose roots lay in the ports of Burma and India, caring for destitute seafarers long before it settled into a Hampshire hillside for ov…
- Near Alton
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Alton Castle
Staffordshire
A Gothic Revival castle above the Churnet Valley, on ground fortified in timber since Saxon times.
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Alvecote Priory
Warwickshire
A Benedictine house founded in 1159 as penance, according to the story attached to it, by a crusader who had accused his wife falsely and killed th…
- Near Alvecote
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Alvingham Priory
Lincolnshire
A priory, a monastery run by a prior, split down the middle by its own church wall, where canons and nuns lived under one roof but never met: Engla…
- Near Leicester
- Easy path
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Sacred place
Amaravati Buddhist Monastery
Hertfordshire
A Thai Forest Tradition monastery built inside abandoned Second World War military huts of Canadian cedar, still run entirely on donations from lay…
- Near Hertford
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Fortified place · Medieval
Amberley Castle
West Sussex
Amberley shows how a bishops’ medieval summer palace was turned into a formidable south-coast fortress in 1377, while its gatehouse, high curtain w…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Ambleside Roman Fort
cumbria
A lakeside fort held for close to three centuries, where a tombstone records a man killed inside the walls and 800 metal finds hint at the battle t…
- Near Ambleside
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Ambresbury Banks
Essex
Ambresbury Banks is a five-hectare defended settlement in Epping Forest dating from from about 800 BC until the Romans came. Its archaeology, conse…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Amesbury Abbey
Wiltshire
One of only four English houses of the Order of Fontevraud, and burial place of a queen consort and a captive princess of royal blood.
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Amesbury Priory
Wiltshire
A royal nunnery where queens and princesses took the veil, run under a French order in which the resident monks answered to a prioress rather than…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Amphitheatre (London)
City of London
A gladiatorial arena for thousands of spectators survives beneath a modern civic plaza, its curved outline still traced in the paving above.
- Near London
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Ampleforth Abbey
North Yorkshire
A working Benedictine monastery whose community traces an unbroken line back to pre-Reformation (the sixteenth-century break with the Roman Church)…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
An Dun
Highland
A drystone tower on a tidal islet, reachable only by a boulder causeway at low water: and still argued over as broch, a round, hollow-walled tower…
- Near Ardvar
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Roman
Ancaster (Roman town)
Lincolnshire
A cemetery of more than 250 Roman burials, including 11 stone sarcophagi, sits beneath a Lincolnshire village whose Latin name was never securely r…
- Near Leicester
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Anderitum
East Sussex
Its walls sheltered William the Conqueror's army the night before Hastings in 1066: a single site spanning Roman, Saxon, Norman and Second World Wa…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Anderton Boat Lift
Cheshire
A hydraulic engineering solution so unusual: two water-filled iron tanks counterbalancing each other on buried rams: that it survives as one of onl…
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Medieval
Andle Stone
Derbyshire
A prehistoric (predating the written record in Britain) boulder scored with cup-and-ring carvings was later turned into a private war memorial, its…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Andover Priory
Hampshire
Andover's monks answered to a French abbey on the Loire, not an English house: a foreign tie that made it vulnerable and saw it suppressed in 1414,…
- Near Andover
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Anglesey Abbey
Cambridgeshire
A medieval priory: a monastery headed by a prior rather than an abbot: has its chapter house and monks' day room folded whole into a Jacobean-then-…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Ankerwycke Priory
Berkshire
A small, poor house of Benedictine nuns whose 1197 case against a runaway sister reached the Pope himself, and whose site still bears a Tudor manor…
- Near Wraysbury
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Annadorn Dolmen
County Down
A Neolithic burial chamber that doubled, centuries later, as a speaking platform for a founder of the United Irishmen: two very different gathering…
- Near Downpatrick
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Anstey Castle
Hertfordshire
Its own defenders were ordered to tear it down in 1218, and the stone went to repair the parish church next door, where the castle's crest still su…
- Near Hertford
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Fortified place · Roman
Antonine Wall
East Dunbartonshire
The Antonine Wall was Rome’s short-lived northern frontier, joining nineteen forts to carved distance slabs whose paint, imagery and military messa…
- Near Kirkintilloch
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Fortified place · Medieval
Apley Castle
Shropshire
A fortified manor of 1327 that became an Elizabethan mansion, was sacked in the Civil War, and ended up as the stable block of a house that has its…
- Near Hadley
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Fortified place · Medieval
Appleby Castle
Cumbria
Four centuries under one family, then a rare-breeds farm run by an industrialist, and now a private house on the open market for millions: its owne…
- Near Appleby
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Appleby Friary
Cumbria
The friars who lived here left named patrons and a firm founding date in the record, yet the ground itself has vanished entirely: only a borrowed n…
- Near Appleby
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Sacred place · Medieval
Appuldurcombe House
Isle of Wight
Appuldurcombe House is the shell of an ambitious Worsley Baroque mansion whose 18th-century architecture, Capability Brown landscape and celebrated…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Aquae Arnemetiae
Derbyshire
About a million litres of warm mineral water rise each day from roughly a kilometre below the ground at Buxton, emerging at a steady 27 °C. The Rom…
- Near Bakewell
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Aquae Sulis
Somerset
Around 130 sheets of lead, scratched with curses and folded shut, were dropped into a steaming spring here by people who believed the goddess in th…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Aquhorthies stone circle
Aberdeenshire
One of Aberdeenshire's recumbent stone circles built with two rings rather than one, its unusual forecourt and alternating stone heights have puzzl…
- Near Inverurie
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Arbeia
Tyne and Wear
A supply fort above the mouth of the Tyne, four miles beyond the end of Hadrian's Wall, whose gravestones record a strikingly far-flung population.
- Near South Shields
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Arbor Low
Derbyshire
Rare among British henges for how completely its earthworks and stone circle survive together, with a linked Bronze Age, roughly 2500–800 BC, barro…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Arbroath Abbey
Angus
In 1320 the Declaration of Scottish Independence: the Declaration of Arbroath: is believed to have been drafted here by Abbot Bernard, Chancellor o…
- Near Arbroath
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Arbury Banks, Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire
One of only six known hillforts strung along the northern Chilterns, and a serious contender for the battle where a small Roman force destroyed Bou…
- Near Hertford
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Arbury Hill
Northamptonshire
A square Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC) earthwork (a bank, ditch or mound shaped from soil rather than built in st…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Archcliffe Fort
Kent
Archcliffe Fort is a surviving Dover coastal defence whose ramparts span Tudor invasion fears, Stuart rebuilding, railway and road losses, and a pr…
- Near Dover
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ardamullivan Castle
County Galway
Ardamullivan Castle is a restored six-storey O'Shaughnessy tower house whose surviving defensive features conceal rare late-medieval wall paintings…
- Near Portumna
- Some walking
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Carved stone · Medieval
Ardboe High Cross
County Tyrone
At 5.6 metres, Ardboe High Cross is Northern Ireland’s tallest and most complete original high cross; its twenty-two biblical panels preserve the o…
- Near Cookstown
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Ardchattan Priory
Argyll and Bute
Robert the Bruce is said to have held Scotland's last Gaelic-speaking parliament here in 1308, and local tradition credits its yews with furnishing…
- Near Bonawe
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ardee Castle
County Louth
At four storeys it is reckoned the largest fortified tower house surviving in Ireland or Britain, and it stayed in daily public use: as prison, the…
- Near Ardee
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Ardfert Abbey
County Kerry
Nine tall lancet windows run along the south wall of the friary (a house of friars, who worked among townspeople rather than withdrawing from them)…
- Near Ardfert
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ardfinnan Castle
County Tipperary
Built in 1185 by Prince John alongside its sister fortress at Lismore, Ardfinnan is among the very first castles the English Crown ever raised on I…
- Near Clonmel
- Some walking
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Ardjachie Stone
Highland
A single red sandstone boulder carries two carving traditions centuries apart: Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC) cup-and-ring marks beneath a Pictis…
- Near Tain
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Ardlair Stone
Aberdeenshire
Carved with the Pictish beast, a tuning fork and a mirror, the stone ties this quiet Aberdeenshire field into the still-unresolved symbol tradition…
- Near Kennethmont
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ardley Castle
Oxfordshire
Raised without the king's licence during the Anarchy, it stood as an illegal fortress until a peace treaty condemned it by name to demolition.
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Ardnadam Farm
Argyll and Bute
A field on the Cowal shore where a Neolithic tomb was read by nineteenth-century antiquarians as a Druidical altar, and by local tradition as the g…
- Near Dunoon
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Roman
Ardoch Roman Fort
Perth and Kinross
Five ditches deep on two sides, and among the best-preserved Roman earthworks anywhere in the Empire.
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Building or ruin · Roman
Ardotalia
Derbyshire
A thousand-strong Roman garrison once held this Pennine spur, and the same cohort's name turns up again on an altar stone far away at Hadrian's Wall.
- Near Bakewell
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ardvreck Castle
Highland
A broken keep on a spit of rock in Loch Assynt where a fugitive royalist commander was handed to his enemies in 1650, under circumstances still dis…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Ariconium
Herefordshire
Its waste heaps alone testify to an industrial scale rare in Roman Britain: furnace refuse still covering some 100 acres, built up over centuries o…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Arkin's Castle
County Galway
Arkin's Castle records the remaking of an Inishmore fortress from an O'Brien thirteenth-century structure into a Cromwellian garrison, now reduced…
- Near Athenry
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Armadale Castle
Highland
A Tudor-Gothic mock-castle built purely for show now stands roofless and abandoned, and in 2025 its entire estate went up for private sale.
- Near Armadale
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Fortified place · Medieval
Armathwaite Castle
Cumbria
A 15th-century pele tower built by the Skeltons to watch the River Eden for Scottish raiders, later refaced into a classical mansion that still hid…
- Near Armathwaite
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Fortified place · Medieval
Arnside Tower
Cumbria
A Scottish-style twin-height pele tower on English soil, raised against Border Reivers and now slowly falling to a collapsed wall and a century of…
- Near Arnside
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Aros Castle
Argyll and Bute
A single stronghold changed hands between three of the West Highlands' great dynasties in turn: MacDougall, MacDonald and Maclean: each forfeiture…
- Near Salen
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Arthur's Stone, Herefordshire
Herefordshire
A capstone of more than 25 tonnes still balances on nine stones nearly five thousand years after burial rites began here: and storytellers have sin…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Arundel Castle
West Sussex
A medieval castle established by Roger de Montgomery in the eleventh century, damaged in the Civil War and remodelled twice over afterwards.
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ascot d'Oilly Castle
Oxfordshire
Excavation here proved the mound was built around an already-standing tower, not the tower onto a ready-made mound: a rare, deliberately reversed m…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Ascot Priory
Berkshire
The mother house of an entire Anglican sisterhood, founded to serve seafaring Devonport's poor before it ever stood in Berkshire woodland.
- Near Ascot
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ascott Earl Castle
Oxfordshire
A castle of timber tower, artificial mound and walled yard in the village of Ascott Earl.
- Near Ascott Earl
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Ascott House
Buckinghamshire
A working hunting box quietly rebuilt over sixty years into one of the Rothschild family's great informal country houses, its rustic timbering deli…
- Near Ascott
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Ash Hole Cavern
Devon
A single limestone chamber near Brixham held Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC) hearths, Roman burial urns and Nero's coins, then drew treasure-hunte…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ashby de la Zouch Castle
Leicestershire
A late medieval tower house whose owner was executed before it was finished, then deliberately wrecked with gunpowder two centuries later: and whos…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Ashdown Forest
East Sussex
A stone hand axe found near Gills Lap, thought to be about 50,000 years old, is the earliest known trace of human activity on Ashdown Forest: an an…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Aldborough Castle
North Yorkshire
A circular mound called Studforth Hill marks a medieval bank-and-ditch site inside an older Roman townscape. Aldborough Castle was probably a timbe…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Aldermanshaw Priory
Leicestershire
Rubble cottage stonework in Charnwood Forest is the main clue to a monastery already ruined by the mid-fifteenth century. Aldermanshaw Priory was a…
- Near Woodhouse
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Ancient place · Medieval
Almsworthy Common
Somerset
Almsworthy Common is a small stretch of unenclosed upland on Exmoor, in south-western England, covering roughly half a square kilometre and rising…
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Altanagh
County Tyrone
Altanagh’s scheduled burial mound preserves cordoned urn burials dated to 1890–1450 BC, giving a County Tyrone townland a firmly evidenced Bronze A…
- Near Coleraine
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Altar Stone (Stonehenge)
Wiltshire
The Altar Stone lies flat at the centre of Stonehenge, a slab of purplish-green micaceous sandstone measuring 4.9 metres long, 1 metre wide and hal…
- Easy path
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Fortified place
Altinaghree Castle
County Tyrone
Altinaghree Castle is a striking but derelict 1860s Tyrone estate house whose short-lived luxury and early abandonment shaped its enduring ruin.
- Near Dungannon
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Sacred place · Medieval
Andwell Priory
Hampshire
A rare surviving fragment of an "alien priory": a monastic cell answering to a French mother house: swept away by the political fallout of England'…
- Near Basingstoke
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Annaghdown Abbey
County Galway
Annaghdown Abbey preserves a compact Arroasian foundation beside its cathedral, where surviving church, cloister (the covered walkway round a monas…
- Near Galway
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Annaghmare Court Tomb
County Armagh
Excavated with unusual care in the 1960s, its drystone walling and chambers survive largely undisturbed: a rare case where a tomb with an open cour…
- Near Newry
- Some walking
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Settlement · Medieval
Antiville
County Antrim
Antiville’s excavated house and souterrain (a stone-lined tunnel dug beneath a settlement) show how radiocarbon dating and landscape evidence can o…
- Near Ballycastle
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Fortified place · Medieval
Antrim Castle
County Antrim
Antrim Castle charts four centuries of settler power, Jacobite raiding, Georgian rebuilding and twentieth-century destruction; its surviving garden…
- Near Antrim
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Antynanum
County Antrim
Antynanum’s scheduled late Stone Age burial monument preserves a long mound of stones, court and contrasting burial galleries in County Antrim, giv…
- Near Ballymena
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Sacred place · Medieval
Arbury Priory
Warwickshire
The stones that once formed Arbury Priory were carried away, cut and dressed a second time, and reassembled as a country house. When Sir Edmund And…
- Near Chilvers Coton
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ardglass Castle
County Down
Ardglass Castle preserves a fifteenth-century fortified merchant warehouse range within a later country house and golf clubhouse, making harbour co…
- Near Ardglass
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Ardristan standing stones
County Carlow
Ardristan standing stones are a paired County Carlow monument whose grooved larger menhir survives on either side of a modern road near Tullow.
- Near Carlow
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Ardtole Church
County Down
Ardtole Church combines a fifteenth-century parish ruin, early-Christian sculpture and a stone souterrain (an underground passage, probably for sto…
- Near Downpatrick
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Sacred place · Medieval
Arundel Blackfriars
West Sussex
Structural remains of a Dominican friary: a house of friars who worked among townspeople: still stand in Mill Lane at Arundel, in West Sussex. For…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Arundel Priory
west-sussex
A religious house under a prior, founded in 1102, dissolved in 1380 and replaced on the same site by a college for twenty aged poor men: the buildi…
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