Sacred place · Medieval
Newminster Abbey
Northumberland
Newminster was more than a lost Cistercian monastery: its founding abbot’s shrine, vast estate and three daughter houses made it a northern powerho…
- Some walking
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Newnham Priory
Bedfordshire
Bedfordshire's oldest religious foundation, tracing an unbroken line from pre-Conquest secular canons to a dissolved Augustinian priory: a monaster…
- Near Bedford
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Building or ruin · Roman
Newport Arch
Lincolnshire
A working Roman gate that traffic still passes beneath today, its limestone ring still carrying the road it was built to carry eighteen centuries ago.
- Near Lincoln
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Fortified place · Medieval
Newport Castle
Newport
Newport Castle’s surviving river façade shows how a fourteenth-century Marcher stronghold controlled the Usk crossing, collected dues and served a…
- Near Newport
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Newport Castle, Pembrokeshire
Pembrokeshire
A castle first raised in the thirteenth century, with a later house built into the surviving fabric.
- Near Newport
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Building or ruin · Roman
Newport Roman Villa
Isle of Wight
Newport Roman Villa is a well-preserved late Romano-British (Britain under Roman rule, AD 43–410) farmhouse whose bath suite, decorated rooms and r…
- Near Newport
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Newstead Abbey
Nottinghamshire
Newstead layers Henry II’s penitent Augustinian foundation, its conversion after Henry VIII’s closure of the monasteries in the 1530s, Lord Byron’s…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Newton Longville Priory
Buckinghamshire
A tiny Cluniac outpost whose loyalty to a French mother house made it a target in wartime, and whose estates ultimately built the foundation of an…
- Near Newton Longville
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Fortified place · Medieval
Newton St Loe Castle
Somerset
A fortified manor said to have held King John under arrest: with an early gunport in its gatehouse and a university in its grounds.
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Sacred place · Medieval
Newtown Abbey
County Meath
The Augustinian house on the Boyne east of Trim, founded about 1206, where a synod reordered five Meath sees in 1216 and a prior stood accused of m…
- Near Trim
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Pictish & early medieval
Nico Ditch
Greater Manchester
Nico Ditch is a six-mile early-medieval earthwork (a bank, ditch or mound shaped from soil rather than built in stone) crossing Greater Manchester…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Nidum
Neath Port Talbot
Nidum is a repeatedly occupied Roman auxiliary fort beneath modern Neath whose changing size, stone rebuilding, road-network position and uniquely…
- Near Neath
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Nigg Stone
Highland
A shattered, staple-mended slab carries the oldest known depiction of a European triangular harp alongside carving so fine it is thought to share c…
- Near Nigg
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Nine Ladies
Derbyshire
Ten weathered stones pretending to be nine, watched over by a leaning outlier scratched with a conman's graffiti, and defended for a decade by a pr…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Nine Maidens stone row
Cornwall
Nine Maidens is a late Neolithic (the first farming period in Britain, roughly 4000–2500 BC) Cornish stone row whose nine irregular stones align to…
- Near Penzance
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Nine Stones Close
Derbyshire
Four surviving stones on Harthill Moor retain two shallow cup marks, while the lost uprights explain the traditional name Nine Stones Close.
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Nine Stones, Altarnun
Cornwall
Nine Stones is Bodmin Moor’s smallest stone circle, restored from near collapse in 1889 and retaining an unusual central granite post.
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Nine Stones, Winterbourne Abbas
Dorset
The Nine Stones is a small Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first spread) Dorset circle whose unusual pair of tall stones, long an…
- Near Winterbourne Abbas
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Ninestane Rig
Scottish Borders
Legend says the lord of Hermitage Castle was boiled alive here in 1320, in a cauldron slung between the two big stones.
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Nocton Priory
Lincolnshire
A monastic house whose stone was recycled twice over: first into a Tudor-era mansion, then into nothing at all: leaving only earthworks on Abbey (a…
- Near Lincoln
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Noltland Castle
Orkney Islands
A castle of the later sixteenth century near Pierowall on Westray, never fully completed.
- Near Pierowall
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Nordy Bank
Shropshire
A single bank rings ground on Brown Clee Hill near Clee St Margaret, enclosing a settlement defended between about 800 BC and the Roman conquest. I…
- Near Ludlow
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Norham Castle
Northumberland
Norham’s keep stands where the Tweed itself became a border, a bishops’ fortress repeatedly taken, rebuilt and later immortalised by Turner.
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Norman Cross Prison
Cambridgeshire
Tens of thousands of carved bone ships, dominoes and straw-work marquetry made by bored, ingenious captives survive in museums today: the largest b…
- Near Peterborough
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Building or ruin · Roman
Normandykes
Aberdeen City
A Roman marching camp misread for fifty years as a Danish fort, its true imperial origin restored only when its rectangular plan gave the game away.
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Normanton Down Barrows
Wiltshire
One grave here held a gold lozenge, a bronze dagger and a mace among the richest Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first spread) bu…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Norsebury Ring
Hampshire
Its name sounds Norse but has nothing to do with Vikings, and its buried inner enclosure may echo the shrine once dug up at nearby Danebury.
- Near Winchester
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
North Abbey, Youghal
County Cork
A thirteenth-century Dominican priory: a monastery headed by a prior rather than an abbot: whose Marian image made Youghal a centre of devotion unt…
- Near Youghal
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
North Elmham Castle
Norfolk
North Elmham Castle is a rare bishop’s fortified church site where an Anglo-Saxon cathedral tradition, an eleventh-century Norman church, Henry le…
- Near North Elmham
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Building or ruin · Roman
North Leigh Roman Villa
Oxfordshire
The only Roman building left standing and open to visitors anywhere in Oxfordshire, with sixty rooms and nineteen mosaic floors surviving from a ho…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
North Mains
Perth and Kinross
Two pits and a cremation were placed here before the henge was built: a prehistoric earthwork of bank and ditch enclosing a circular space, with th…
- Near Crieff
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
North Ormsby Priory
Lincolnshire
A double house of nuns and canons under the rare Gilbertine order, its enclosure of a hundred women and fifty men now reduced to grass-grown earthw…
- Near North Ormsby
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Northallerton Castle
North Yorkshire
Seized by a Scottish claimant in the 1140s and rebuilt by a rebel bishop, this timber stronghold was destroyed on a king's direct order: and the ra…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Northampton Castle
Northamptonshire
A stage for a state trial of Thomas Becket and two baronial wars, obliterated so completely by a Victorian railway that only a gatehouse and some e…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Northburgh Castle
County Donegal
Its design deliberately echoes Edward I's conquest castles in Wales: a calculated political statement in stone by the Anglo-Norman earl who built it.
- Near Carndonagh
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Northolt Manor
Greater London
Northolt Manor preserves the archaeological footprint of a moated medieval manor on a site occupied from at least the 7th or early 8th century, whi…
- Near Northolt
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Northshield Rings
Scottish Borders
A hillfort whose outer defences are stronger than its inner ones: and an eight-metre gap that shows which were built first.
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Norton Camp
Somerset
A defended hilltop at Norton Fitzwarren near Taunton, raised in the age of the first metalworkers.
- Near Norton Fitzwarren
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Norton Priory
Cheshire
Excavated from 1971 over twelve years by modern archaeological methods on a scale unmatched anywhere in Europe, this is the most thoroughly underst…
- Near Runcorn
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Norwich Castle
Norfolk
Norwich Castle is a richly ornamented Norman royal keep whose long afterlife: from Conquest stronghold and refuge amid anti-Jewish violence to coun…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Norwich Cathedral
Norfolk
Norwich Cathedral is one of England’s most complete Norman cathedrals: a vast flint-and-Caen-stone church whose towering spire, exceptional cloiste…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Nostell Priory
West Yorkshire
A Palladian house of 1733 built for the Winn family on the site of a twelfth-century Augustinian priory: a monastic house under a prior rather than…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Notgrove Long Barrow
Gloucestershire
A chambered long barrow, a communal burial mound, whose stone passage and side chambers stood open to the sky for millennia before being sealed shu…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Notley Abbey
Buckinghamshire
A private house built from the bones of one of the Oxford region's richest Augustinian monasteries, later home to Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Nottingham Castle
Nottinghamshire
Nottingham Castle layers William’s 1068 conquest stronghold, Civil War destruction and a Restoration mansion above the city’s defining sandstone rock.
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Noviomagus Reginorum
West Sussex
The Roman town beneath Chichester, almost nothing of which stands above ground: and whose very name is a modern reconstruction from five scraps of…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Nuneaton Priory
Warwickshire
Nuneaton was one of only four English nunneries of Fontevraud, a large female religious community whose surviving church plan and precinct gave the…
- Near Nuneaton
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Nunney Castle
Somerset
A castle that escaped deliberate demolition after the Civil War because the besiegers' cannon had already wrecked it.
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Nympsfield Long Barrow
Gloucestershire
Excavators found red ochre in this barrow, a burial mound of heaped earth, prehistoric in date: possibly face-paint to make the dead look alive: an…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
O'Brien's Castle (Inisheer)
County Galway
A carved human face still watches from a stone bracket projecting from the tower wall, while the ground beneath the castle's main tower hides a muc…
- Near Inis Oirr
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
O'Rourke's Castle
County Leitrim
A survivor of the doomed March to Leitrim died within its walls' shadow: this small tower house witnessed the last act of Gaelic Ulster's resistanc…
- Near Dromahair
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Oakham Market Cross
Rutland
A sixteenth- or seventeenth-century market cross, of the kind that served as a gathering point and market venue.
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Oakley Down Barrow Cemetery
Dorset
Oakley Down is a scheduled Cranborne Chase cemetery whose thirty Bronze Age, the period from about 2500 to 800 BC, mounds and early excavated buria…
- Near Sixpenny Handley
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Oakmere hill fort
Cheshire
One of only seven Iron Age hill forts in Cheshire, and the only one built low beside water rather than on a hilltop: its ramparts once met the shor…
- Near Oakmere
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Roman
Oakwood Roman Fort and Camp
Scottish Borders
A cohort fort and the builders' camp that put it up, both found from the air in 1949: and abandoned because of a war on the Danube.
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Odiham Castle
Hampshire
One of only three castles King John built himself, and the probable departure point for his ride to seal Magna Carta in 1215.
- Near Winchester
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Building or ruin · Roman
Odin Mine
Derbyshire
Trading on a name possibly given by Danish settlers, this is the oldest documented lead mine in Derbyshire: worked, on and off, for over five centu…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Offa's Dyke
Powys
An earthwork whose ditch faces Wales along its whole length: and whose radiocarbon dates now run from three centuries before Offa to two centuries…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Ogbourne Priory
Wiltshire
A Benedictine priory, a monastery headed by a prior, that spent much of its two-century life not as a monastery but as the paper name for a Norman…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ogle Castle
Northumberland
Ogle Castle shows why a Northumbrian manor needed crenellations: a captured Scottish king was held here, and its earthworks still surround a Grade…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ogmore Castle
Vale of Glamorgan
A butler held it against the Welsh in 1116 while its lord was away, and was knighted and given a castle of his own for it.
- Near Ogmore-by-Sea
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Okehampton Castle
Devon
Okehampton Castle charts the transformation of a Norman stronghold guarding a Devon crossing into a luxurious Courtenay hunting lodge, followed by…
- Near Okehampton
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Old Beaupre Castle
Vale of Glamorgan
Windows and fireplaces were blocked up here, most likely to reduce the tax owed on them. Water still flows along the drain the privies emptied into.
- Some walking
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Old Bridge, Bridgend
Bridgend
Only two of its five original medieval arches are visible; a third is walled into a shop, and a fourth lay hidden until a chance discovery in 2015.
- Near Bridgend
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Old Bridge, Huntingdon
Cambridgeshire
Its central pier still carries a visible kink from 1332, when two building crews working from opposite banks failed to meet in a straight line.
- Near Huntingdon
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Old Bridge, Pontypridd
Rhondda Cynon Taf
William Edwards's single-span arched footbridge over the Taff at Pontypridd.
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Old Buckenham Priory
Norfolk
Old Buckenham Priory transformed an abandoned Norman castle site into an Augustinian house with estates in 42 Norfolk parishes, showing how monasti…
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Old Castle Bridge
Warwickshire
Half its width was already in ruins by 1373, and it was repaired by charity. A flood swept most of the rest away in 1795.
- Near Warwick
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Old Castle Lachlan
Argyll and Bute
A clan stronghold bombarded into ruin by government order after Culloden: its fall traces the collapse of Jacobite Cowal in a single act of naval g…
- Near Strathlachlan
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Old Church of St Nidan, Llanidan
Isle of Anglesey
Old St Nidan’s is a partly ruined double-naved medieval church near the Menai Strait, preserving a six-arch arcade and relic traditions despite 19t…
- Near Brynsiencyn
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Roman
Old Dee Bridge
Cheshire
Chester's oldest crossing survived a Roman timber-and-stone original, a 14th-century royal rebuilding order, and a fortified gatehouse before losin…
- Near Chester
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Old Exe Bridge
Devon
The Old Exe Bridge is England’s oldest surviving bridge of its scale and Britain’s oldest bridge with a chapel still on it, preserving Exeter’s med…
- Near Exeter
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Old Gorhambury House
Hertfordshire
A working Elizabethan statesman's house reduced to a porch, a chapel and a clock tower, built in part from the stones of a dissolved abbey (a relig…
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
Old Minster, Winchester
Hampshire
For over a century this was reputedly the largest church in Europe, and the resting place of Anglo-Saxon kings whose bones now lie in chests around…
- Near Winchester
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Old Oswestry
Shropshire
Old Oswestry is one of Britain’s best-preserved Iron Age (from about 800 BC until the Romans came) hillforts, where four defensive phases and later…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Old Rectory, Warton
Lancashire
A 14th-century rector's house standing to almost its full gable height, its private hall, kitchen courtyard and even a well still traceable on the…
- Near Warton
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Old Sarum Castle
Wiltshire
A Norman castle with a timber tower on an earth mound and a walled yard, raised inside a defended hilltop settlement dating from 400 BC, it once he…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Old St Bartholomew's Church, Lower Sapey
Worcestershire
Its 1990s restorers worked "to make it appear as though we had never been on the site": conservation by near-total restraint rather than repair.
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Old St Peter's Church, Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd
Denbighshire
A roofless medieval church whose paper trail: a 1291 tax record and a 1535 valuation of £418: survives more fully than the building itself.
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Old Warden Castle
Bedfordshire
Nobody has ever settled whether the earthwork on Quince Hill was a motte (a castle mound) or a ringwork: a rare case where the basic identity of a…
- Near Old Warden
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Old Winchester Hill
Hampshire
A hillfort (a defended enclosure on high ground, ringed with banks and ditches) and older Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first s…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Oldberry Castle
Somerset
It watches the ancient crossing of the River Barle, half a mile from Dulverton.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Oldbury Camp
Kent
Oldbury Camp is south-eastern England’s largest Iron Age (from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest) hillfort, a 50-hectare Weald-route stronghol…
- Near Ightham
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ongar Castle
Essex
Ongar Castle preserves a rare urban castle mound-and-yard complex whose moat, two enclosed yards and later mansion history reveal nearly a millenni…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Oola Castle
County Limerick
A late-Renaissance tower house whose corner turrets and fireplaces survive largely intact, and whose grounds gave up a hoard of prehistoric (from t…
- Near Adare
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Oram's Arbour
Hampshire
An Iron Age oppidum whose buried perimeter still underlies a Winchester park: and whose eastern edge the Roman town wall of Venta Belgarum was late…
- Near Winchester
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Oranmore Castle
County Galway
A working home, not a ruin: this Galway towerhouse survived a 17th-century siege and later became the lived-in house of a Leslie family and an Iris…
- Near Oranmore
- Easy path
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Newnham Castle
Kent
Newnham Castle is a compact Anarchy-period motte-and-bailey (an early Norman castle of a timber tower on an earth mound, with a walled yard alongsi…
- Near Newnham
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Sacred place · Medieval
Newstead Priory
Lincolnshire
Newstead Priory records a medieval transition from hospital to Augustinian canonry, anchored by the River Gwash between Stamford and Uffington.
- Near Stamford
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Sacred place · Medieval
Newstead-on-Ancholme Priory
Lincolnshire
Newstead-on-Ancholme Priory preserves a rare physical remnant of a small Henry II Gilbertine foundation: a vaulted former priory room incorporated…
- Near Newstead-on-Ancholme
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Fortified place · Medieval
Newtown Castle
County Clare
Newtown Castle is uniquely shaped among Irish tower houses: a cylindrical tower rising from a square pyramidal base, now restored as part of the Bu…
- Near Ennis
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Newtownards Priory
County Down
Newtownards Priory preserves a medieval Dominican church whose layered nave (the western body of the building, where the congregation gathered), cl…
- Near Newtownards
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Nine Maidens stone circle
Devon
The Nine Maidens is a Bronze Age (the period from about 2500 to 800 BC) Dartmoor stone circle whose damaged burial setting, survival among clitter…
- Near Belstone
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Norman's Law
Fife
Norman’s Law pairs a scheduled defended settlement dating from from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest with commanding views over Fife, the Tay…
- Near St Andrews
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Nuncotham Priory
Lincolnshire
Nuncotham Priory preserves the earthworks of a Cistercian nunnery whose records reveal both the ordinary constraints of episcopal discipline and th…
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Fortified place · Medieval
O'Dea Castle
County Clare
O’Dea Castle is the restored tower-house centre of a County Clare clan stronghold whose history runs from medieval victory through Cromwellian dama…
- Near Crusheen
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Obadiah's Barrow
Cornwall
Obadiah’s Barrow: a burial mound of earth from from the era before writing arrived in these islands: is Gugh’s largest entrance grave, where a 1901…
- Near Penzance
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Old Church of St Gwenllwyfo, Llanwenllwyfo
Isle of Anglesey
The Old Church of St Gwenllwyfo is a roofless medieval chapel whose reduced walls, lost furnishings and 12th-century font preserve the layered memo…
- Near Amlwch
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Old Scatness
Shetland Islands
Construction of a perimeter road for Sumburgh Airport in the late 1970s sliced into a grassy mound at the southern tip of Shetland Mainland, exposi…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Olderfleet Castle
County Antrim
Olderfleet Castle is a protected Larne tower whose changing identities: from medieval Bissett stronghold to possible warehouse: reflect centuries o…
- Near Belfast
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