Fortified place · Iron Age
The Wrekin
Shropshire
An Iron Age tribal capital stormed and burnt by the Romans in AD 47: and a hill so familiar that its name became the local phrase for the long way…
- Near Telford
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Thelsford Priory
Warwickshire
A small friary: a house of friars, who worked among townspeople rather than withdrawing from them: near the Avon, its endowment built up acre by ac…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Theobalds House
Hertfordshire
A house built to flatter a queen became so favoured by her successor that James I chose to die within its walls, and its Elizabethan splendour was…
- Near St Albans
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Therfield Heath
Hertfordshire
One stretch of chalk grassland, still grazed as open common, carries Hertfordshire's largest known group of barrows: burial mounds of heaped earth,…
- Near St Albans
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Fortified place · Medieval
Thetford Castle
Norfolk
Thetford Castle’s motte (the earthen mound a castle was raised on) is England’s second-largest man-made mound, preserving the dramatic core of a Bi…
- Near Thetford
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Thetford Priory
Norfolk
Thetford Priory was a leading Cluniac house of East Anglia, founded by Roger Bigod and later a pilgrimage centre and burial place for the Howards a…
- Near Thetford
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Thicket Priory
North Yorkshire
A medieval nunnery vanished twice over: demolished in 1850, then quietly reborn as a Carmelite monastery in 2009, on the same wooded estate south-e…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Thickthorn Down Long Barrows
Dorset
Thickthorn Down’s paired long barrows show how Neolithic (the first farming period in Britain, roughly 4000–2500 BC) burial monuments were delibera…
- Near Gussage St Michael
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Thirlwall Castle
Northumberland
Thirlwall Castle survives as a Border tower strengthened with Hadrian’s Wall stone, its ruin linking Roman material to later medieval defence.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Thirsk Castle
North Yorkshire
Deliberately levelled by royal order in 1176, its stone is said to have gone straight into the parish church still standing in the town today.
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Thoby Priory
Essex
Thoby Priory traces an Augustinian community from a 12th-century foundation through Wolsey’s educational programme to a site reshaped by mansion bu…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Thoor Ballylee
County Galway
The tower where W. B. Yeats wrote some of his best-known poetry, once called by Seamus Heaney 'the most important public building in Ireland.'
- Near Gort
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Thor's Cave
Staffordshire
A ten-metre limestone arch that held burials from the end of the Palaeolithic: and had its own railway station from 1904 to 1934.
- Near Wetton
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Thornborough Bridge
Buckinghamshire
Thornborough’s six-arched stone bridge is Buckinghamshire’s only surviving medieval road bridge, retaining pedestrian refuges and the parish-bounda…
- Near Thornborough
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Thornborough Henges
North Yorkshire
Three colossal bank-and-ditch circles laid out to echo Orion's Belt survived a decade of gravel-quarry battles before passing whole into public han…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Thornbury Castle
Gloucestershire
Built as a residence for the wealthiest noble in England, it was left unfinished when its owner was executed for plotting against the Tudor crown.
- Near Gloucester
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Thorney Abbey
Cambridgeshire
A Fenland abbey (a monastic house under the rule of an abbot) whose Anglo-Saxon community was thought so holy that at least a dozen saints came to…
- Near Thorney
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Thornhill Hall
West Yorkshire
Excavation found two halls on this moated island: a thirteenth-century building and an H-plan stone one of about 1450.
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Thornholme Priory
Lincolnshire
Thornholme Priory was a mid-twelfth-century Augustinian house in the Ancholme carrs, preserved today as a scheduled monument (legally protected as…
- Near Broughton
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Sacred place · Medieval
Thornton Abbey
Lincolnshire
England's largest surviving monastic gatehouse, built in an early experiment with brick, guards a plague pit that made archaeological history.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Thorpe Waterville Castle
Northamptonshire
A bishop built this fortified manor with timber stolen from a neighbouring abbey's woods: then it was besieged in the Wars of the Roses and finally…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Threave Castle
Dumfries and Galloway
Threave Castle is a powerful record of Black Douglas lordship in Galloway, combining a 14th-century tower house with one of Britain’s earliest purp…
- Near Newton Stewart
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Three Brothers of Grugith
Cornwall
The Three Brothers of Grugith is a scheduled Neolithic (the first farming age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) dolmen overlooking Goonhilly Downs, preserving…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Carved stone · Iron Age
Three Holes Cross
Cornwall
Three Holes Cross is a scheduled medieval wayside cross whose unusual pierced wheelhead gives its name to a long-standing road junction east of Wad…
- Near Penzance
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Threestoneburn Stone Circle
Northumberland
Threestoneburn’s sixteen granite stones, lost sightlines and outlying alignments preserve an unusually extensive ritual landscape from about 2500 t…
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Throwley Old Hall
Staffordshire
A ruined stately home near Calton and the River Manifold, listed Grade II*.
- Near Calton
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Tomb or burial place · Iron Age
Thundersbarrow Hill
West Sussex
Three occupations on one chalk ridge, separated by more than a thousand years each way: a burial mound, a fort, and a farming village.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Thurleigh Castle
Bedfordshire
An earthen motte with a rare two-tier summit and one of the largest, most irregular baileys of any English castle of its kind: yet almost nothing o…
- Near Thurleigh
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Thurnham Castle
Kent
Thurnham Castle, or Godard’s Castle, preserves the flint bailey (the walled yard below the castle mound) wall of a small 12th-century North Downs f…
- Near Thurnham
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Fortified place · Medieval
Tibbers Castle
Dumfries and Galloway
Tibbers Castle preserves a rare Scottish example of a timber earthwork (banks and ditches raised from the earth rather than quarried stone) castle…
- Near Newton Stewart
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Sacred place · Medieval
Tickford Priory
Buckinghamshire
Not a ruin but a lived-in house: a listed obelisk and riverside gazebo in its grounds mark a Cluniac priory, a monastery headed by a prior rather t…
- Near Newport Pagnell
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Tickhill Castle
South Yorkshire
A private house behind a fortified Norman gatehouse conceals one of King John's two chief strongholds against a feared French invasion.
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Tidbury Ring
Hampshire
Beneath ploughed-out defensive banks, two Roman buildings were raised inside this fort centuries after the Britons who first enclosed the hill were…
- Near Winchester
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Tideslow Rake
Derbyshire
Its lead-poisoned soil, hostile to almost all ordinary plant life, instead hosts a rare community of metal-tolerant plants and lichens found in few…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Tilbury Fort
Essex
Tilbury Fort is the Thames defence where Tudor invasion fears became a major 17th-century star fort, later a magazine and military logistics base f…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Tilty Abbey
Essex
Tilty Abbey preserves a Cistercian church that survived the 1536 Dissolution (Henry VIII's closure of the monasteries in the 1530s) by becoming a p…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Timoleague Friary
County Cork
A friary: a house of friars, who worked among townspeople rather than withdrawing from them: burnt in 1642 with a thousand barrels of Spanish wine…
- Near Timoleague
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Tinboeth Castle
Powys
A Mortimer castle built inside an Iron Age hillfort, which served as its outer bailey: and abandoned because peace made it pointless.
- Near Llanbister
- Rough ground
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Settlement · Roman
Ting Mound
Cumbria
Its close resemblance to the Isle of Man's Tynwald Mount is the strongest evidence that Viking settlers raised this terraced mound as their own ope…
- Near Carlisle
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Tinkinswood
the-vale-of-glamorgan
Nine hundred and twenty human bones, nearly all broken, were found inside: at least forty people of every age, buried under what may be the largest…
- Near St Nicholas
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Fortified place · Medieval
Tinnakill Castle
County Laois
Its four-storey limestone walls hide a double puzzle: a construction date disputed across two centuries, and a carved figure removed and lost witho…
- Near Portarlington
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Tintagel Castle
Cornwall
Tintagel Castle unites a fifth- and sixth-century elite settlement with a thirteenth-century Cornish castle and one of Britain’s most influential A…
- Near Tintagel
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Tintern Abbey
Monmouthshire
Tintern Abbey was Wales’s first Cistercian foundation and remains one of its defining medieval ruins, where 400 years of monastic life meet the Wye…
- Near Tintern
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Tintern Abbey, County Wexford
County Wexford
A monastery founded from fear at sea rather than piety alone: its name, 'Tintern de Voto', still records the vow that built it.
- Near New Ross
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Tiptree Priory
Essex
Tiptree Priory links a modest Augustinian foundation to Wolsey’s short-lived educational endowments and to the red-brick Elizabethan house that rep…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Tirefour Castle
Argyll and Bute
A drystone broch: a round, hollow-walled tower distinctive to Scotland's Iron Age, the centuries before Rome arrived: survives to a maximum height…
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Titchfield Abbey
Hampshire
A minor monastery whose canons built one of medieval England's largest libraries, then became the private house where a royal marriage and a Shakes…
- Near Titchfield
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Tithe Barn, Maidstone
Kent
This is medieval agricultural infrastructure at civic scale: a palace storehouse that became stables and then Britain’s first carriage museum.
- Near Maidstone
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Fortified place · Medieval
Tiverton Castle
Devon
Tiverton Castle preserves a Norman and Courtenay stronghold whose dramatic 1645 capture ended its military role and led to its transformation into…
- Near Tiverton
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Toddington Castle
Bedfordshire
A grass-covered mound in a Bedfordshire village still carries the folk memory of an 'old woman' frying pancakes underground, layered over the real…
- Some walking
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Tofts Ness
Orkney Islands
Tofts Ness is a Sanday peninsula with ancient mounds, cairns, enclosures and structural remains, alongside evidence of later shipwrecks.
- Near Sanday
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Tolquhon Castle
Aberdeenshire
Built for show rather than defence, its gatehouse still carries the founder-laird's own inscription naming the exact day in 1589 he finished the work.
- Near Tarves
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Tolvan holed stone
Cornwall
Cornwall's largest holed stone, a Neolithic (the late Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC in Britain) monument altered by nineteenth-century removal bu…
- Near Penzance
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Tomb of the Eagles
Orkney Islands
Tomb of the Eagles is a late Stone Age burial chamber on South Ronaldsay, where human remains and eagle bones reveal changing funerary practices.
- Near South Ronaldsay
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Tomen y Mur
Gwynedd
A Roman fort remote enough to have kept its own small amphitheatre and inn intact: features usually ploughed away at less isolated garrisons across…
- Near Bangor
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Tomen y Rhodwydd
Denbighshire
A princely stronghold thrown up in a single year of conquest and burned within a decade: its earthworks still mark the moment Owain Gwynedd tore th…
- Near Denbigh
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Tomen yr Allt
Powys
A timber castle burnt in 1257, whose destruction shows up as daub and a scorched layer in a 1978 excavation.
- Near Llanfyllin
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Tomnaverie stone circle
Aberdeenshire
Excavation here overturned a long-held theory: the cairn (a mound of piled stones, often covering a burial) was built before the circle, not after,…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Tonbridge Castle
Kent
Tonbridge makes Norman conquest tangible through a siege-scarred Medway stronghold whose 1260 gatehouse still dominates grounds opened as a public…
- Near Tonbridge
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Fortified place · Medieval
Tong Castle
Shropshire
Capability Brown's first commission in Shropshire. The house was demolished in 1954 and the M54 now runs over the site.
- Near Tong
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Tongland Abbey
Dumfries and Galloway
Tongland Abbey records a little-documented Premonstratensian community in Galloway, where uncertain foundation evidence, a troubled late-medieval d…
- Near Newton Stewart
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Toothill Fort
Hampshire
A single defensive bank and ditch still ring the spur's tip, and a stand of planted redwoods now makes the old lookout visible for miles around.
- Near Winchester
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Topcliffe Castle
North Yorkshire
A Norman motte (the earthen mound a castle was raised on) and bailey (the walled yard below the castle mound) at a river confluence that saw a king…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Torberry Hill
West Sussex
A hilltop enclosure raised in the centuries before Rome arrived, spelled variously Tarberry and Torbery.
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Torhouse
Dumfries and Galloway
Nineteen granite boulders sit on a slightly raised platform on the land of Torhouse, three miles west of Wigtown. They form a circle roughly 22 met…
- Near Newton Stewart
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Torksey Castle
Lincolnshire
Its brick upper storey was one of the earliest uses of that lavish material in English secular building: yet Royalist soldiers, not enemies of the…
- Near Lincoln
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Torr a'Chaisteal
North Ayrshire
Torr a’Chaisteal preserves the low, turf-covered defences of an Iron Age (from about 800 BC until the Romans came) dun and its link to Arran’s wide…
- Near Blackwaterfoot
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Torre Abbey
Devon
Torre Abbey is Devon and Cornwall’s best-preserved medieval monastery, combining a Premonstratensian foundation, surviving Grade I fabric and a maj…
- Near Torquay
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Torrylin Cairn
North Ayrshire
Torrylin Cairn preserves a Neolithic (the late Stone Age, about 4000–2500 BC in Britain) Clyde cairn whose chamber, burials and later damage reveal…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Torwoodlee Broch
Scottish Borders
Roman pottery, glass and a coin found packed inside its walls turn this collapsed tower into rare physical evidence of contact: hostile or looted:…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Totnes Castle
Devon
Totnes Castle is one of England’s best-preserved Norman motte-and-bailey (an early Norman form, a timber tower raised on a mound with a walled cour…
- Near Totnes
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Totnes Priory
Devon
Totnes Priory was a Norman foundation of the feudal baron of Totnes, documented by a surviving c.1087 charter and connected to the town’s early med…
- Near Totnes
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Totnes Trinitarian Priory
Devon
Totnes Trinitarian Priory preserves the limited but tangible remains of a medieval Trinitarian house in the town, with chapel ruins surviving after…
- Near Totnes
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Carved stone · Medieval
Tottenham High Cross
Greater London
Tottenham High Cross marks the historic centre of Tottenham village on the line of Ermine Street, replacing a medieval wayside cross and preserving…
- Near Tottenham
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Totternhoe Castle
Bedfordshire
A rare double-bailey layout cut into a chalk hillside: an unusual arrangement for an English motte-and-bailey castle, an early Norman stronghold wi…
- Near Totternhoe
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Totternhoe Knolls
Bedfordshire
A single hillside reserve holds a Norman castle's earthworks, chalk grassland rich in rare orchids, and the quarry that once supplied stone for Wes…
- Near Totternhoe
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Tower of London
Greater London
Founded during the Norman Conquest, the Tower of London is both a formidable royal fortress and an evolving national institution: palace, prison, m…
- Near Winchester
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Town Walks, Dorchester
Dorset
Dorchester’s Town Walks turn the line of Roman Durnovaria’s defences into a historic public landscape, preserving two millennia of fortification, m…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Townleyhall passage grave
County Louth
A 1962 excavation here gave archaeologists their first solid proof that Ireland's passage graves date to the Neolithic period: the late Stone Age,…
- Near Drogheda
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Traquair House
Scottish Borders
Its Bear Gates have stood locked since the eighteenth century under a vow never to reopen them: a promise the family has kept for more than two hun…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Tre'r Ceiri
Gwynedd
Its dry-stone ramparts still stand up to four metres high around some 150 roundhouses: one of the best-preserved Iron Age (from around 800 BC up to…
- Near Bangor
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Treago Castle
Herefordshire
Mason's marks cut into its stone match those at Raglan Castle and trace to William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke's workshop: physical evidence link…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Tredustan Castle
Powys
A mound raised within a year of the Norman victory at Brecon, to hold down the district it stands in.
- Near Talgarth
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Treen Cliff
Cornwall
A protected Penwith cliffscape where a scheduled prehistoric (before any written account of Britain existed) cliff castle shares ground with rare m…
- Near Penzance
- Rough ground
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Treffry Viaduct
Cornwall
A 100-foot Cornish mining viaduct that carried both tramway and water power across Luxulyan Valley, binding quarries, mines and harbour into one in…
- Near Bodmin
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Trefignath
isle-of-anglesey
Three burial chambers built one after another on the same knoll over centuries, their capstones carted off for gateposts in about 1790 and the site…
- Near Bangor
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Fortified place · Medieval
Tregantle Fort
Cornwall
A Palmerston fort above the Channel approaches to Plymouth, built for 35 guns and still used for military training more than 160 years later.
- Near Looe
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Three Brothers, Lancashire
Lancashire
The Three Brothers reward a walk above Morecambe Bay with an unresolved question: are these shaped monuments or boulders carried here by ice?
- Near Warton
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Thremhall Priory
Essex
Thremhall’s moat and fishpond preserve the plan of an Augustinian house whose closure in the 1530s converted a religious estate into private countr…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Thwaite Priory
Lincolnshire
Thwaite Priory was a late-medieval Augustinian dependency of Thornton Abbey whose surviving fabric was incorporated into the Grade II listed Thwait…
- Near Welton le Marsh
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Tievebulliagh
County Antrim
Tievebulliagh is a Glens of Antrim mountain whose Neolithic (the late Stone Age, about 4000–2500 BC in Britain) porcellanite quarry supplied axes a…
- Near Cushendall
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Fortified place · Medieval
Tilsworth Castle
Bedfordshire
Two castles, not one: a lost Saxon motte on the knoll above, and the fortified moated manor below it that a forged letter, a poisoning plot and eig…
- Near Tilsworth
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Timoney Stones
County Tipperary
Nobody agrees on when these stones went up: some read them as Neolithic (the late Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC in Britain) ritual work, others a…
- Near Nenagh
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Tinnahinch Castle
County Carlow
Tinnahinch Castle is a River Barrow tower house built to control a crossing, retaining machicolation (an opening in a parapet floor for dropping mi…
- Near Graiguenamanagh
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Togher Castle
County Cork
Togher is a substantially intact late-sixteenth-century MacCarthy tower house, retaining defensive bartizans, a winding stair and dungeon from the…
- Near Bandon
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Tonnagh More
County Tyrone
Tonnagh More is a Tyrone townland where a protected rath (a ringfort, a farmstead enclosed by a circular bank and ditch) and stable 1840s populatio…
- Near Cookstown
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Fortified place · Medieval
Tower Dock
City of London
Tower Dock preserves the last visible head of a Thames inlet that helped protect the Tower of London and marked the edge of its historic Liberty.
- Near London
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Sacred place · Medieval
Tracton Abbey
County Cork
Tracton marks a lost Cistercian monastery whose vanished fabric contrasts with a sheela na gig and a horse bit from the centuries before Rome arrived.
- Near Carrigaline
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Trawscoed fort
Ceredigion
A Roman fort for up to 800 infantry, discovered from aerial marks and placed to command a river crossing on the route through Ceredigion.
- Near Trawsgoed
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Tregeseal East stone circle
Cornwall
The surviving member of a probable line of three Cornish stone circles, its restored granite ring preserving a wider ritual landscape beneath Carn…
- Near St Just
- Some walking
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