Fortified place · Medieval
Ashford Castle
County Galway
A stronghold built onto the edge of a monastic site in 1228 has been rebuilt by three ruling families into a five-star hotel that has hosted a king…
- Near Cong
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Ashleworth Tithe Barn
Gloucestershire
A Grade II* survivor of the medieval tithe system, its owl holes and buttressed limestone walls still show how a Bristol abbey (a monastery headed…
- Near Gloucester
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ashley Castle
Hampshire
A castle knocked down by royal order in 1155 and rebuilt in stone half a century later under one of King John's most powerful (and most notorious)…
- Near Stockbridge
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Ashleypark Burial Mound
County Tipperary
Radiocarbon dating fixes a burial here at roughly 3350 BC, one of the most precisely dated Neolithic (the late Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC in B…
- Near Clonmel
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Ashridge Priory
Hertfordshire
A future queen was arrested here as a suspected traitor, and the order that built the place traced its odd double name to whispers of a French heresy.
- Near Hertford
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ashton Keynes Castle
Wiltshire
Locals call it The Battlefield, and nothing in the record says what battle: a ringwork, a castle enclosure ringed by a bank and built without a mot…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Askeaton Abbey
County Limerick
The east-bank ruin north of Askeaton combines a church with domestic ranges; records differ over which FitzGerald earl founded the Franciscan commu…
- Near Askeaton
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Askerton Castle
Cumbria
Its two crenellated towers were raised for comfort, not war: a rare case where a border stronghold's battlements were really about extra bedrooms.
- Near Askerton
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Fortified place · Medieval
Aslockton Castle
Nottinghamshire
Aslockton Castle’s adapted castle mound and waterworks show how a Norman stronghold was recycled into a manor, fishponds and formal gardens over ce…
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Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Asthall barrow
Oxfordshire
A seventh-century cremation burial yielded a Merovingian glass bottle, a silver bowl and gilded drinking-horn fittings: grave goods placing an obsc…
- Near Asthall
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Astley Castle
Warwickshire
A fortified house rather than a true castle, home to Elizabeth Woodville before she became queen, gutted by fire in 1978 and rebuilt inside its own…
- Near Astley
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Iron Age
Aston Valley Barrow Cemetery
Wiltshire
The mounds hold burials from two different ages: Bronze Age cremations reopened, centuries on, for Saxon dead: a rare double life for one small gro…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Astwell Castle
Northamptonshire
A single embattled gatehouse tower, its spiral stair still climbing to a castellated roof, is almost all that survives of a forty-room courtyard ma…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Athassel Priory
County Tipperary
At roughly 1.6 hectares, this is the largest medieval priory, a monastery headed by a prior and usually smaller than an abbey, a religious communit…
- Near Cashel
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Athcarne Castle
County Meath
Its tower house was signed away into the future King James II's own name after Cromwell seized it, and locals themselves gutted it for salvage in 1…
- Near Dunshaughlin
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Sacred place · Medieval
Athelney Abbey
Somerset
Founded by King Alfred after his refuge in the Somerset marshes, this Benedictine abbey (a monastery headed by an abbot) endured for centuries befo…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Athenry Abbey
County Galway
Athenry Abbey is a Dominican priory: a monastery headed by a prior rather than an abbot: whose substantial church and tombs preserve centuries of p…
- Near Athenry
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Athenry Castle
County Galway
A squat 1230s keep was raised into a soaring tower house within a generation: carved in a local style found nowhere else, at a ford the Bermingham…
- Near Athenry
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Athlone Castle
County Westmeath
A squat, much-rebuilt riverside stronghold that has guarded the Shannon crossing at Athlone for over eight centuries, from Gaelic timber fort to Na…
- Near Athlone
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Athlumney Castle
County Meath
A tower house and its Tudor mansion were burned not by an attacking army but by their own defenders, twice, rather than surrender the site intact.
- Near Navan
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Athy Priory
County Kildare
A Dominican house refounded twice after suppression, its friars returning in the 1620s and again in the 1750s to keep an unbroken thread running to…
- Near Athy
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Aubrey holes
Wiltshire
A precise ring of 56 buried pits older than Stonehenge's famous stones, and later reused as Britain's oldest known cremation cemetery.
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Roman
Auchendavy
East Dunbartonshire
Auchendavy was an Antonine Wall fort with an exceptional concentration of inscriptions, altars and military finds, despite severe damage from the F…
- Near Kirkintilloch
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Roman
Auchinhove
Moray
Auchinhove is a large Roman marching camp east of Keith, discovered from the air in 1949 and preserving evidence of Roman military movement in Moray.
- Near Keith
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Auckland Castle
County Durham
Twelve canvases of Jacob and his sons by Francisco de Zurbarán have hung in the Long Dining Room since 1756, and its converted great hall is rated…
- Near Bishop Auckland
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Audleystown Court Tomb
County Down
Audleystown is Ireland’s only known double-court, double-gallery tomb: excavations recovered 34 people and rare burial evidence, while later conser…
- Near Downpatrick
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Aughlish
County Londonderry
One stone row here points precisely at the moon's southernmost rising or setting point: rare physical evidence that Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC…
- Near Maghera
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Aughnanure Castle
County Galway
The only medieval castle in Connemara still intact enough to walk through, with a rare double bawn, a round watchtower, and carved grapevines in it…
- Near Oughterard
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Augill Castle
Cumbria
A Victorian fantasy of medieval architecture, Augill Castle passed through half a dozen owners in barely fifty years before finding its true callin…
- Near Brough
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Auld Bourtreebush
Aberdeenshire
Long dismissed as a recumbent stone circle like its neighbour at Aquhorthies, modern scholarship has overturned that reading, restoring Auld Bourtr…
- Near Portlethen
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Austin Friars, London
City of London
Thomas Cromwell built one of London's grandest private mansions on land seized from this friary (a community of friars, an order that lived among t…
- Near London
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Austin Friary, Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
Two Cambridge friars who once lived here, Robert Barnes and Myles Coverdale, went on to help drive the English Reformation, and the only book known…
- Near Cambridge
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Avebury
Wiltshire
Huge standing stones rise among cottages, lanes and open grass, making Avebury feel less like a monument beside a village than a village caught ins…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Avebury Priory
Wiltshire
One of only two English cells of a Norman abbey: a monastery headed by an abbot: sending its rents and tithes back to Boscherville for four centuri…
- Near Avebury
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Sacred place · Medieval
Axholme Charterhouse
Lincolnshire
Its last prior, Augustine Webster, chose the Tower of London and martyrdom over the Oath of Supremacy: a small Carthusian house whose ending produc…
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Axmouth Old Bridge
Devon
Believed to be the oldest surviving concrete bridge in England, it needed steel reinforcement bolted into its unreinforced spans decades after they…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Aydon Castle
Northumberland
Aydon Castle is a rare fortified manor whose merchant-built stone house survived Scottish raids, capture, farming reuse, and later heritage protect…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Aymestrey burial
Herefordshire
A child buried on its side in a stone-lined pit with a beaker and a flint knife, some four thousand years ago, in a gravel bed beside the River Lugg.
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ayton Castle, North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire
A rare surviving pele tower in northern England, raised to guard a river crossing against Scottish raiders: and still holding a largely intact vaul…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bach Camp
Herefordshire
A single defensive bank still rises over five metres around four hectares of hilltop above the Whyle Brook, yet no spade has ever tested what lies…
- Near Leominster
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Baconsthorpe Castle
Norfolk
Baconsthorpe Castle is a rare fortified manor whose gatehouses, moat, wool-processing range and gardens show how the Heydons turned status, sheep f…
- Near Baconsthorpe
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Badbury Hill
Oxfordshire
A near-circular Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC) enclosure whose name once drew comparison with Arthur's greatest vi…
- Near Great Coxwell
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Roman
Badbury Rings
Dorset
Badbury Rings preserves early burial mounds, a large defended settlement, Roman activity and later reuse on a chalk ridge above the Stour valley.
- Near Shapwick
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Baddesley Clinton
Warwickshire
A moated recusant manor where Nicholas Brome’s reputed murder of a priest was followed by rebuilding St Michael’s as penance, leaving defensive fab…
- Near Baddesley Clinton
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Badminton House
Gloucestershire
A private ducal seat whose Great Hall gave a global sport its name, while four centuries of rebuilding by Kent, Gibbs and the Somerset family layer…
- Near Gloucester
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Baginton Castle
Warwickshire
A castle with two names and almost no visitors, where the Earl of Northumberland was held after Hotspur's defeat at Shrewsbury in 1403.
- Near Baginton
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Baguley Hall
Greater Manchester
Baguley Hall is one of England’s oldest surviving timber great halls, preserving exceptionally large 14th-century timbers and the layered story of…
- Near Winchester
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Fortified place · Medieval
Baile Hill
North Yorkshire
The last surviving trace of a twin-castle system William the Conqueror threw up on both banks of the Ouse within a year of taking York.
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Baile Mhargaite (Sandy Dun)
Highland
Never excavated and only waist-high in places, its walls, annexe, ditch and outer defence still trace a complete Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the…
- Near Bettyhill
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Bailieborough Castle
County Cavan
A Plantation-era fortified house that shaped an entire Cavan town, then vanished so completely that a lakeside forest trail is now the only trace.
- Near Bailieborough
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Baker's Hole
Kent
Baker’s Hole is a nationally important Palaeolithic quarry landscape, known for evidence of large-scale Neanderthal stone-tool production but compl…
- Near Northfleet
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Bakewell Bridge
Derbyshire
One of its five cutwaters still carries the stump of a medieval wayside cross, tying this working road bridge back to the market routes that once p…
- Near Bakewell
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Bakewell Castle
Derbyshire
Its very origin is disputed: was it a Saxon burh raised by Edward the Elder in 924, or a 12th-century Norman motte, the earthen mound a castle was…
- Near Bakewell
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Balbirnie Stone Circle
Fife
A circle of which only five stones stood when excavation began in 1970, four more stumps and a tenth socket being found beneath.
- Easy path
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Balbridie
Aberdeenshire
The largest Neolithic (the late Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC in Britain) long house ever excavated in Britain, its scale rivalling only a handfu…
- Near Banchory
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Balfarg
Fife
Balfarg preserves a multi-phase Neolithic (the late Stone Age, about 4000–2500 BC in Britain) ceremonial landscape within modern Glenrothes, includ…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Balgarthno Stone Circle
dundee-city
Nine stones on a circle six and a half metres across, all but one of them down, with a causeway running thirty metres east: surrounded now by the h…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Balgonie Castle
Fife
Balgonie Castle shows five centuries of incremental change, from a 14th-century tower house to a restored residence within the remains of a 17th-ce…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Balkerne Gate
Essex
Balkerne Gate is the largest surviving Roman gateway in Britain, a monumental four-entrance approach to Camulodunum that preserves the scale and ci…
- Near Colchester
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Balladoole
Isle of Man
Six thousand years of continuous ritual use culminate in a Viking chieftain's boat grave, deliberately cut into the Christian burials it displaced.
- Near Douglas
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ballands Castle
Somerset
A surviving motte (the great earth mound at the heart of an early castle), bailey (the defended yard attached to the mound) and encircling ditches…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ballinacarriga Castle
County Cork
Ballinacarriga Castle is a structurally sound sixteenth-century tower house that retains rare defensive details and a Sheela Na Gig high on its eas…
- Near Ballineen
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ballinafad Castle
County Sligo
A ten-man Elizabethan garrison post that survived two separate attacks in Ireland's turbulent seventeenth century, and today stands open, free and…
- Near Sligo
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ballindalloch Castle
Moray
Continuously lived in by one family since 1546, its Z-plan tower survived a burning by Montrose's men and a feud that ended in murder at a neighbou…
- Near Ballindalloch
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ballinlough Castle
County Westmeath
One of a handful of Irish Catholic families still living in the same house they held since the seventeenth century, under a coat of arms whose foun…
- Near Delvin
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Ballinskelligs Abbey
County Kerry
On the western shore of Ballinskelligs Bay, the ruined church, covered walkway and Prior's House of an Augustinian monastic house stand within a fe…
- Near Ballinskelligs
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Ballintubber Abbey
County Mayo
Ballintubber's unusual continuity lies in its Catholic use: worship continued through the penal times even after fire, suppression and Cromwellian…
- Near Ballintubber
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Ballochroy
Argyll and Bute
Alexander Thom argued its central stone's flat face was cut to point exactly at sunset over a named Jura peak at the solstices: making Ballochroy o…
- Near Campbeltown
- Some walking
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Balluderon Stone
Angus
Only the lower half of this Pictish (of the Picts, the people of northern and eastern Scotland from about AD 300 to 900) cross slab survives, yet l…
- Near Dundee
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Ballyboggan Abbey
County Meath
A wooden cross drew pilgrims here for centuries and met a public burning in Trim in 1538, giving this ruined priory, a monastery headed by a prior,…
- Near Kildare
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ballycar Castle
County Clare
A tower house so thoroughly erased that even the house later built on its footings was a roofless ruin by the 1890s: known today almost entirely th…
- Near Newmarket-on-Fergus
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ballycowan Castle
County Offaly
A Gaelic tower house, an English fortified house, and a Cromwellian bombardment all marked the same ridge west of Tullamore within less than a cent…
- Near Tullamore
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ballyfounder Rath
County Down
Ballyfounder Rath preserves the compact earthwork (a bank, ditch or mound shaped from soil rather than built in stone) form of a ringfort on the Ar…
- Near Downpatrick
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ballygally Castle
County Antrim
Built by a Scottish settler in 1625, Ballygally is a sea-facing fortified house that resisted attacks in 1641 before becoming a hotel without losin…
- Near Larne
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Ashleys Copse
Wiltshire
The earthworks at Ashley's Copse sit not on the crown of their hill but slightly to its eastern side, below the 166-metre summit, on ground that le…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Aslackby Preceptory
Lincolnshire
Until about 1891 a tower, possibly belonging to the preceptory (a local estate of a military order such as the Knights Templar) church, stood toget…
- Near Aslackby
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Sacred place · Medieval
Astley Priory
Worcestershire
The only fabric of Astley Priory that survives above ground is the Prior's Well, sitting near the entrance to St Peter's churchyard, and a fragment…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Atherstone Priory
Warwickshire
Before he was crowned, the man who would become Henry VII took communion at an Augustinian religious house in Atherstone on the eve of the Battle o…
- Near Atherstone
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Auchagallon Stone Circle
North Ayrshire
Auchagallon is a fifteen-stone Arran monument whose circle and central cairn, a mound of piled stones covering a burial, preserve evidence of Stone…
- Near Machrie
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Audley's Castle
County Down
Audley’s Castle is a compact late-medieval tower house whose rooms, bawn and County Down turret form reveal how lesser gentry combined storage, hos…
- Near Strangford
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Sacred place · Medieval
Augustinian Friary of the Most Holy Trinity, Dublin
County Dublin
The Augustinian Friary of the Most Holy Trinity was medieval Dublin's Augustinian college, later revealed by excavation beneath Temple Bar.
- Near Dublin
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Augustinian Friary, York
North Yorkshire
A writ of protection issued by Henry III in July 1272 marks the first firm documentary trace of the Augustinian friars in York. Their house stood i…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Ault, Northern Ireland
County Antrim
Ault preserves a Scheduled wedge-shaped burial monument whose mound of stones, kerb and chamber reveal a carefully built ancient tomb within County…
- Near Ballymena
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Sacred place · Medieval
Austin Friars, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Tyne and Wear
Founded about 1290, dissolved about 1540, and the site afterwards held hospitals, prisons, guild houses, a gas company and a barber surgeons' hall.
- Near Newcastle upon Tyne
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Aveline's Hole
Somerset
Britain's earliest scientifically dated cemetery and its largest known assemblage of Mesolithic (the middle Stone Age, roughly 9000–4000 BC) human…
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Avinagillan standing stone
Argyll and Bute
A solitary standing stone raised somewhere in prehistory, its silent presence over the Kintyre shoreline outlasting any record of who put it there…
- Near Campbeltown
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Axminster Monastery
Devon
A named Anglo-Saxon prince, Cyneheard the Ætheling, was buried here: the one fact anchoring this otherwise undocumented Devon minster (originally a…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Aylesford Priory
Kent
Aylesford Priory is a nationally important Carmelite pilgrimage site where a 1242 foundation, Reformation (the sixteenth-century closure of the mon…
- Near Aylesford
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Backwell Hillfort
Somerset
Once defended by a ditch and bank, this Iron Age (from about 800 BC until the Romans came) fort was nearly erased by quarrying after its discovery,…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Baddesley Preceptory
hampshire
A house of the Knights Hospitaller that moved after the Black Death and left its surviving buildings behind at the place it moved from.
- Near Basingstoke
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Fortified place · Medieval
Bagenal's Castle
Down
A sixteenth-century Newry fortified house hidden within a bakery for generations, rediscovered in 1996 and restored as a public museum.
- Near Newry
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Balksbury
Hampshire
A once-triangular Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC) hillfort (a hilltop enclosure ringed by earth ramparts) largely swallowed by a bypass and housin…
- Near Andover
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ballinalacken Castle
County Clare
Ballinalacken Castle is a Burren tower house built in stages, where fifteenth-century defensive fabric and a 1641 Tudor chimney record centuries of…
- Near Doolin
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ballincollig Castle
County Cork
Ballincollig preserves the keep (the great tower at a castle's heart), curtain wall and towers of a Barrett stronghold whose ownership and conditio…
- Near Ballincollig
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Ballindoon Friary
County Sligo
A Dominican religious house that endured barely three generations beside Lough Arrow before Henry VIII's closure of the monasteries reached even th…
- Near Sligo
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Ballinran Court Tomb
County Down
Ballinran shows how excavation recovered the plan, coastal orientation and burial deposits of a largely destroyed court tomb, a tomb built thousand…
- Near Newry
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Sacred place · Medieval
Ballinskelligs
county-kerry
Ballinskelligs brings a medieval Augustinian religious house into the coastal setting shared with the Skellig Islands and their older religious com…
- Near Ballinskelligs
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ballinskelligs Castle
County Kerry
A tower raised by the MacCarthy Mórs to watch a bay, now itself being watched over by the sea that is slowly taking its ground away.
- Near Ballinskelligs
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Ballybeg Priory
County Cork
Ballybeg is a substantial Augustinian priory: a monastery headed by a prior rather than an abbot: whose exceptional medieval dovecot, a stone house…
- Near Ballybeg
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ballycarbery Castle
County Kerry
Less than half of the high curtain wall that once enclosed Ballycarbery Castle still stands, its base pierced by arrow slits and a staircase buried…
- Near Cahersiveen
- Rough ground
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