Building or ruin · Roman
Petuaria
East Riding of Yorkshire
Its theatre-dedication stone is the only inscription anywhere in Roman Britain naming a magistrate: a rare fragment of civic life from a small prov…
- Near Beverley
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Fortified place · Medieval
Pevensey Castle
East Sussex
A Roman shore fort turned Norman stronghold turned WWII strongpoint: three separate armies fortified the same walls seventeen centuries apart, each…
- Near Hastings
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Peveril Castle
Derbyshire
A square tower on Castleton’s limestone crag is the surviving core of a Domesday-listed stronghold that John of Gaunt later stripped for building s…
- Near Bakewell
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Pexton Moor
North Yorkshire
A gamekeeper out rabbiting turned up corroded iron that proved to be a chariot dating from the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC, bu…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Pickering Castle
North Yorkshire
A rare survivor: one of the few English castles left largely untouched by the Wars of the Roses, and the place a deposed king was held before his f…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Pict's Knowe
Dumfries and Galloway
A small sandy bank rises out of the peat-covered valley of the Crooks Pow stream, four kilometres south-west of Dumfries, and it is on this slight…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Picton Castle
Pembrokeshire
A medieval castle built at the end of the thirteenth century by a Flemish knight, near Haverfordwest.
- Near Uzmaston
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Piel Castle
Cumbria
An abbot built this fortress to police his own abbey's smuggling as much as to repel invaders: and briefly it hosted a boy-king's court before the…
- Near Askam-in-Furness
- Rough ground
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Crossing or structure · Roman
Piercebridge Roman Bridge
County Durham
Piercebridge Roman Bridge preserves massive river-crossing masonry far from today's Tees channel, revealing both the scale of Dere Street and the c…
- Near Piercebridge
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Piercebridge Roman Fort
County Durham
A Roman fort, bridge, bath house and civilian town lie buried beneath a working village green: with one of only two surviving Roman river bridges i…
- Near Piercebridge
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Pike Hill Signal Tower
Cumbria
Built decades before Hadrian's Wall existed, this signal tower was folded into the frontier at a deliberate forty-five-degree angle purely to keep…
- Near Gilsland
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Pikestones
Lancashire
Pikestones is a robbed Neolithic chambered cairn, a Stone Age burial mound built around a stone chamber, on Anglezarke Moor, one of only two chambe…
- Near Anglezarke
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Pill Priory
Pembrokeshire
A Tironensian priory: a religious house led by a prior, a rank below an abbot: founded by the Roche family near Milford Haven, reduced to four monk…
- Near Pill
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Sacred place · Medieval
Pillar of Eliseg
Denbighshire
A ninth-century royal inscription and a Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking spread) burial mound occupy the same stone, three thousa…
- Near Denbigh
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Pilsbury Castle
Staffordshire
A Norman castle on high ground above the River Dove, near the present village of Pilsbury.
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Building or ruin
Pinchbeck Engine
Lincolnshire
A coal-fired scoop wheel once lifted up to 3.7 million tons of floodwater a year to keep Pinchbeck Marsh dry: now it is the earliest surviving A-fr…
- Near Pinchbeck
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Pinley Priory
Warwickshire
A fourteenth-century cottage north-west of the farmhouse was probably where the nuns lodged their visitors. Both it and the farmhouse are listed gr…
- Near Rowington
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Pinxton Castle
Derbyshire
A three-metre mound and damp inner ditch in Castle Wood preserve Pinxton’s unusual medieval manor layout, with the moat inside its outer defences.
- Near Bakewell
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Piper's Stones
County Wicklow
Only five of the granite boulders still stand exactly where Bronze Age hands set them roughly three thousand years ago: the rest were disturbed by…
- Near Wicklow
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Pipewell Abbey
Northamptonshire
A single Northamptonshire abbey (a self-governing monastery, its head an abbot) once ran a scattered farming empire across two counties, its Warwic…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Pitstone & Ivinghoe F.C.
Buckinghamshire
A village club that rebuilt itself twice from a folded predecessor, working its way from parish leagues to county cup glory without ever losing its…
- Near Pitstone
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Pitstone Windmill
Buckinghamshire
A date carved into its timber frame makes this the oldest precisely dated windmill in the British Isles, and tree-ring science has since shown its…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Pixie's Hole
Devon
Pixie’s Hole is a scheduled Devon limestone cave whose late twentieth-century excavation revealed a rich Late Upper Palaeolithic concentration bene…
- Near Exeter
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Plainsfield Camp
Somerset
An earthwork overlooked by its own hill by fifty metres: which is why it is probably a stock enclosure rather than a fort.
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Planetrees (Hadrian's Wall section)
Northumberland
Thirty-five metres of Wall that survive because William Hutton argued a workman out of demolishing them in 1801: ninety-five yards had already gone.
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Plas Mawr
conwy-county-borough
Robert Wynn's 1576–85 Conwy house retains rare Elizabethan plasterwork and a near-original plan, preserved by centuries of later reuse and restored…
- Near Conwy
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Playford Hall
Suffolk
Thomas Clarkson leased the house in 1813, in the years between the abolition of the slave trade and the campaign against slavery itself.
- Near Playford
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Pleasley Colliery
Derbyshire
Its two steam winding engines, built in 1905 and 1922, are among the few in the world still preserved complete inside their original engine-house.
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Pleshey Castle
Essex
Pleshey is one of England’s best-preserved castle mound-and-yard complexes, its 15-metre mound and intact earthworks revealing how a wooden fortres…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Plymouth Castle
Devon
Plymouth Castle was a town-run fifteenth-century harbour defence whose four towers survive in Plymouth’s civic identity even though only a small ga…
- Near Exeter
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Plympton Priory
Devon
Plympton Priory was one of Devon’s most important Augustinian houses, occupying an Anglo-Saxon religious site and becoming the county’s richest mon…
- Near Plympton
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Pobull Fhinn
Outer Hebrides
At least two dozen stones stand in an oval on the south side of Ben Langass on North Uist, eight of them on the northern arc and sixteen on the sou…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Pocklington Iron Age burial ground
East Riding of Yorkshire
A warrior here was buried lying on his own shield, Britain's first known shield burial, and a nearby grave held the country's only chariot buried c…
- Near Beverley
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Podington Castle
Bedfordshire
A castle named in the Domesday Book of 1086 whose earthworks and building foundations still lie in a farmer's field behind a 17th-century manor house.
- Near Podington
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Poisoning of Abbot Greenwell
North Yorkshire
In 1447 a monk of England's richest Cistercian abbey tried to poison his own abbot with a bowl of soup: and the surviving letters to the mother hou…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Polesworth Abbey
Warwickshire
A Benedictine nunnery in north Warwickshire.
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Poling Preceptory
West Sussex
A West Sussex house of a military order, dissolved in 1540: its buildings listed Grade I, its history almost unrecorded.
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Polsloe Priory
Devon
Polsloe Priory preserves the story of Devon’s first religious house for women, from its twelfth-century Benedictine foundation to a rare surviving…
- Near Exeter
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Pont Fawr
Conwy
A Grade I listed, three-arched Llanrwst bridge completed in 1636, valued both for its design and for a long-running but unproven link to Inigo Jones.
- Near Conwy
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Pont Minllyn
gwynedd
A bridge with no road left on it. Two arches still span the Dyfi, but the deck has gone and grass has closed over the top, leaving a crossing to be…
- Near Dinas Mawddwy
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Pont-y-Cafnau
Merthyr Tydfil
Pont-y-Cafnau is the world’s earliest surviving iron railway bridge, built in 1793 to unite limestone transport and water power for Cyfarthfa Ironw…
- Near Merthyr Tydfil
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Pontefract Castle
West Yorkshire
The castle where Richard II is thought to have died, built about 1070 by Ilbert de Lacy and besieged repeatedly in the Civil War.
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Pontefract Priory
West Yorkshire
A Cluniac house of about 1090, dependent on la Charité-sur-Loire, whose cartulary survives and whose burials include Richard, Duke of York.
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Fortified place · Roman
Ponter's Ball Dyke
Somerset
A bank of layered yellow and grey clay running between two former swamps, with an entrance that appears to be original.
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Tomb or burial place · Roman
Ponton Heath Barrow Cemetery
Lincolnshire
At least eleven Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first spread) burial mounds once stood on this ridge; five were bulldozed for iro…
- Near Great Ponton
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Popping Stone
Northumberland
The Popping Stone preserves an unusually specific courtship tradition: and the mystery of why its single landmark boulder became three after 1870.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Popton Fort
Pembrokeshire
One half of a matched pair of Milford Haven forts, its hexagonal ramparts and eleven-gun casemates now stand fenced inside a working oil refinery r…
- Near Angle
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Porlock Stone Circle
Somerset
Thirteen stones now, ten in 2009, forty-three when the circle went up in the era before writing arrived in these islands - and some of what stands…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Port Way
Hampshire
Much of its course survives not as a monument but as a working hedgerow, lane and field boundary: a rare case study in how completely a Roman road…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Portchester Castle
Hampshire
A Roman shore fort still standing to nearly its full height, with a Norman keep, a royal palace and a prisoner-of-war depot all built inside the sa…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Portfield Hillfort
Lancashire
Portfield Hillfort is a rare north-west English enclosure later enlarged with additional banks, with excavations revealing use from the late Stone…
- Near Whalley
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Roman
Portgate
Northumberland
Portgate reveals Rome adapting to its own past: Hadrian’s Wall had to control fifty-year-old Dere Street rather than simply block it.
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Porth Wen Brickworks
Isle of Anglesey
Porth Wen Brickworks preserves a rare coastal industrial system: quartzite quarries, gravity incline, fire-brick works and loading quay, much of it…
- Near Amlwch
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Porth yr Aur
gwynedd
The seaward gate of Edward I's walled town at Caernarfon, badly damaged in the Welsh revolt of 1294 and repaired at a cost of £1,195: a third of wh…
- Near Bangor
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Fortified place · Medieval
Porth-Mawr Gatehouse
Powys
A fifteenth-century gatehouse in central Crickhowell, built for the Herbert family.
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Portingbury Hills
Essex
Portingbury Hills is an enigmatic Hatfield Forest monument where evidence from before the Roman conquest, later alteration and contested astronomic…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Portland Castle
Dorset
Portland Castle is one of Henry VIII’s best-preserved coastal artillery forts, built to defend Portland Roads and later adapted through civil war,…
- Near Castletown
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Portmahomack sculpture fragments
Highland
Roughly 200 carved stone fragments, most no bigger than a handspan, add up to one of the largest collections of Pictish (of the Picts, the people o…
- Near Portmahomack
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Portslade Manor
East Sussex
Portslade Old Manor is a rare surviving Norman manor house, linking Domesday landholding, a medieval fair and later charitable reuse within one sch…
- Near Hastings
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Portsmouth Block Mills
Hampshire
Here, in 1803, ten labourers using Brunel's all-metal machines began outproducing 110 skilled craftsmen: the moment mass production entered the ind…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Portumna Abbey
County Galway
A single church at Portumna carried three congregations in succession: Cistercian, Dominican and Church of Ireland: across more than five centuries…
- Near Portumna
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Portumna Castle
County Galway
Richard Burke’s 1610–17 house brought Renaissance planning, Italianate detail and defensive towers to Ireland, making Portumna a deliberate stateme…
- Near Portumna
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Portus Adurni
Hampshire
Almost the entire circuit of Roman wall still stands to nearly its original height, making this the best-preserved Roman fort north of the Alps.
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Building or ruin · Roman
Portus Lemanis
Kent
Portus Lemanis preserves a Roman naval and Saxon Shore stronghold above the former coast, explaining both Lympne’s name and the changing landscape…
- Near Lympne
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Poston Camp
Herefordshire
Herefordshire's hills hold dozens of Iron Age (from about 800 BC until the Romans came) strongholds, and Poston Camp's quiet earthworks near Vowchu…
- Near Vowchurch
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Poughley Priory
Berkshire
A minor Augustinian monastery known through papal bulls, a fire, a flooded mill dispute, and Cardinal Wolsey's asset-stripping of it to found his O…
- Near Chieveley
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Poulnabrone dolmen
County Clare
Poulnabrone is a Neolithic (the late Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC in Britain) portal tomb (a Neolithic tomb of upright stones carrying a single…
- Near Ballyvaughan
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Poulton Abbey
Cheshire
A Cistercian abbey (a religious community led by an abbot) that quietly relocated in 1214, leaving behind a chapel site so thoroughly forgotten tha…
- Near Chester
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Sacred place · Medieval
Poulton Priory
Gloucestershire
Founded in 1337 as a private chantry chapel, Poulton became a full Gilbertine priory within thirteen years: then vanished so completely that a Vict…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Poundbury Hill
Dorset
Poundbury Hill preserves an exceptional sequence from early farming settlement through a hillfort, a defended enclosure on high ground, ringed with…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Powderham Castle
Devon
Powderham Castle is a Grade I listed fortified manor that has remained the Courtenay family’s Devon seat through medieval conflict, Civil War damag…
- Near Exeter
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Powis Castle
Powys
A Marches castle built by a Welsh prince rather than a Norman baron, whose owners were exiled for thirty years and finished the garden anyway.
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Presaddfed Burial Chamber
Isle of Anglesey
Two Neolithic tombs stand so close together that antiquarians still cannot agree whether they were ever one chamber beneath a single mound.
- Near Bangor
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Prestatyn Castle
Denbighshire
Built in 1165 and destroyed within two years, the castle's short life ended not in ruin but in retreat: the Banastre family abandoned Wales for Lan…
- Near Denbigh
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Preston Candover Long Barrow
Hampshire
One of only two known unchambered long barrows on the North Downs, its true shape was masked for decades by farming damage and a mistaken Ordnance…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Preston Tower, East Lothian
East Lothian
Preston Tower is a rare layered survivor in Prestonpans: a medieval keep enlarged in 1626, repeatedly burned in conflict and accident, and now rest…
- Near Prestonpans
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Prestonbury Castle
Devon
Prestonbury Castle is an Iron Age Dartmoor-edge hillfort: an Iron Age settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground, dating from from aro…
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Priddy Circles
Somerset
Four circular bank-and-ditch enclosures near Priddy in the Mendips, protected by law.
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Priddy Nine Barrows and Ashen Hill Barrow Cemeteries
Somerset
Two Bronze Age barrow cemeteries on the two highest ridges in the district: scheduled in 1933, possibly to stop local schools digging them.
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Prideaux Castle
Cornwall
Prideaux Castle is a small multivallate Iron Age hillfort: an upland enclosure defended by earthen banks, from from around 800 BC up to the Roman c…
- Near Luxulyan
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Prinknash Abbey
Gloucestershire
A hunting lodge became a monastery that went on to found two more British abbeys, and whose pottery: fired from clay dug from its own foundations:…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Priory Church of St Peter, Thurgarton
Nottinghamshire
Thurgarton’s surviving tower and aisle make the scale of a wealthy Augustinian house tangible, even after an eighteenth-century owner demolished th…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Priory Cottages, Steventon
Oxfordshire
A monastic grange that never grew into the priory: a smaller monastery led by a prior: its name suggests, later saved from obscurity by five women…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Priory Gatehouse, Usk
Monmouthshire
The only substantial survivor of a Benedictine priory founded around 1135: a gatehouse whose windows suggest it may have been built after the monks…
- Near Usk
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Priory of St Mary in the Meadow, Beeston Regis
Norfolk
Beeston Priory is a substantial Augustinian ruin whose independent canons combined parish work, schooling and agricultural enterprise until the 153…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Pheleley Priory
Oxfordshire
A small twelfth-century Benedictine community in a detached part of Bloxham, near Charlbury.
- Near Charlbury
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Pilsdon Pen
Dorset
Pilsdon Pen is Dorset’s second-highest hill and a major Durotrigian hillfort, an Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC) se…
- Near Broadwindsor
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Pinnacle Hill
Herefordshire
A summit on the Malvern ridge carrying two possible Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first spread) round barrows, burial mounds se…
- Near Colwall
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Pomeroy Wood
Devon
Pomeroy Wood is a Roman military site near Honiton where excavated ramparts, ditches and biological evidence point to a cavalry presence despite un…
- Near Honiton
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Pons Aelius
Tyne and Wear
The only Roman bridge outside Rome known to be named after an emperor. Hadrian's clan name was Aelius.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ponteland Castle
Northumberland
Ponteland lets you drink in a fourteenth-century tower house that survived Scottish raiding, Jacobean rebuilding, dereliction, and conversion into…
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Poolewe Stone
Highland
A carved crescent, v-rod and a pair of spirals fused into a pelta survive on a single stone that sat unknown until 1992: a Pictish (of the Picts, t…
- Near Poolewe
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Poor Lot Barrow Cemetery
Dorset
Poor Lot Barrow Cemetery is an unusually large, low-lying Bronze Age (the period from about 2500 to 800 BC) burial landscape in Dorset, where forty…
- Near Winterbourne Abbas
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Portaferry Castle
County Down
Portaferry makes the changing role of a harbour tower unusually legible: defensive circulation survives beside evidence of a 1635 repair that resto…
- Near Portaferry
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Porth Hellick Down
Cornwall
Porth Hellick Down contains the world’s largest surviving group of entrance graves, linking Neolithic burial monuments: from the closing Stone Age,…
- Near Penzance
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Fortified place · Medieval
Portora Castle
County Fermanagh
Portora Castle guards a narrow Lough Erne outlet and preserves a Plantation-era bawn, gun-looped flankers, and traces of later domestic use.
- Near Enniskillen
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Sacred place · Medieval
Povington Priory
Dorset
Povington Priory records the economic reach of Normandy’s Abbey (a self-governing monastery, its head an abbot) of Bec into Dorset, where wool and…
- Near Tyneham
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Fortified place · Medieval
Preston Castle, Lancashire
Lancashire
Preston Castle preserves the recorded location of a lost castle built around an artificial mound and enclosed yard, whose surviving earthworks outl…
- Near Preston
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Sacred place · Medieval
Preston Greyfriars
Lancashire
Preston Greyfriars records an early Franciscan presence in Lancashire, documented by 1260 and associated with members of the Holland family.
- Near Preston
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Sacred place · Medieval
Priory of Douglas
Isle of Man
The Priory of Douglas was a Cistercian nunnery whose prioress held the secular title Baroness of Douglas, combining monastic leadership with extens…
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