Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Tregiffian Burial Chamber
Cornwall
Tregiffian is a rare Cornish entrance grave whose passage, decorated stone and evidence of cremation and urn burials illuminate long-lived prehisto…
- Near St Buryan
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Tregrug Castle
Monmouthshire
The bailey here, at 164 by 78 metres, is the largest single enclosure of any castle in England and Wales: yet recent scholarship reads it not as a…
- Near Abergavenny
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Trematon Castle
Cornwall
Trematon Castle is a striking Norman motte-and-bailey (an early Norman castle of a timber tower on an earth mound, with a walled yard alongside) ab…
- Near Saltash
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Trendle Ring
Somerset
Trendle Ring is an undated Quantock earthwork (a mound or ditch formed by moving soil, not by building) whose steep slope, single rampart (a defens…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Trentham Priory
Staffordshire
A priory that claimed a seventh-century Saxon founder it probably never had: and whose tower may be standing in Derbyshire.
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Treryn Dinas
Cornwall
Treryn Dinas is an Iron Age cliff fort: the period from roughly 800 BC to the Roman conquest: whose successive ramparts, Logan Rock and coastal cul…
- Near Penzance
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Tresco Priory
Cornwall
Tresco Priory records more than five centuries of monastic life in the Isles of Scilly, alongside the vulnerability of an island community to pirac…
- Near Tresco
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Trethevy Quoit
Cornwall
Trethevy Quoit is one of Cornwall’s best-preserved Neolithic (the first farming age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) portal graves, remarkable for its immens…
- Near St Cleer
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Tretower Castle
Powys
A round keep built inside an older shell keep, with the gap between them roofed over: and abandoned because the family preferred the house next door.
- Near Tretower
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Tretower Court
Powys
A castle that turned into a house, and survived because nothing ever happened to it: until it became a piggery.
- Near Tretower
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Triermain Castle
Cumbria
A minor Cumbrian stronghold whose stone came straight from Hadrian's Wall, and whose lord's name found its way into Coleridge's gothic poem "Christ…
- Near Carlisle
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Fortified place · Medieval
Trim Castle
County Meath
Trim Castle’s unique twenty-cornered great tower grew from de Lacy’s Boyne crossing stronghold into Ireland’s most ambitious Norman castle complex.
- Near Trim
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Roman
Trimontium (Newstead)
Scottish Borders
One of the largest caches of Roman military finds in Britain: arms and armour from 117 pits: came from a fort that was, briefly, the empire's most…
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Trinity Bridge, Crowland
Lincolnshire
Built to cross two rivers at their fork, this medieval three-way bridge has stood over dry ground for more than three centuries since the waters it…
- Near Lincoln
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Tripontium
Warwickshire
A Roman frontier post of AD 47 that grew into a town and was then lost for centuries, until an antiquarian: an early collector-scholar of antiquiti…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Tristernagh Abbey
County Westmeath
Its own stone was pulled down to build a private house whose slow ruin was reputedly the model for Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent.
- Near Mullingar
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Trowbridge Castle
Wiltshire
Nothing of the fortress stands above ground today, yet its ditch still bends Trowbridge's main street around a shape laid out nine centuries ago.
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Trusty's Hill
Dumfries and Galloway
Carved into the living rock near the entrance to a small vitrified hillfort, a Pictish (of the Picts, the people of northern and eastern Scotland f…
- Near Newton Stewart
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Tullos Cairn
Aberdeen City
One of four stone burial mounds sharing Tullos Hill, raised in the Bronze Age: roughly 2500 to 800 BC, when metal tools first spread: and still out…
- Near Aberdeen
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Tullynally Castle
County Westmeath
The Pakenham family who built it are tied by marriage to the Duke of Wellington, and the house they left behind is still the largest in private han…
- Near Castlepollard
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Tunley Camp
Somerset
Tunley Camp is a nearly ploughed-down early fortified settlement that illustrates how modest earthworks fit into wider debates about power, farming…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Tupholme Abbey
Lincolnshire
Tupholme’s surviving refectory: the monks' dining hall: wall preserves a rare, legible fragment of a small Premonstratensian house shaped by the Wi…
- Near Tupholme
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Turnberry Castle
South Ayrshire
Robert the Bruce grew up here and ordered it destroyed in 1310, so the English could not have it. Nobody rebuilt it.
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Crossing or structure
Turnbridge Lift Bridge
West Yorkshire
A canal bridge whose whole deck rises on chains and counterweights: windlass-worked from 1865, electric since 2002.
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Turoe Stone
County Galway
A granite pillar carved with flowing La Tène-style ornament, likely used in prehistoric ceremonies of kingship: and a monument whose own repeated r…
- Near Loughrea
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Tutbury Castle
Staffordshire
Slighted twice, rebuilt as a princely household, used to hold Mary Queen of Scots, and finally pulled down by order of Parliament.
- Near Tutbury
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Twelve Apostles Stone Circle
Dumfries and Galloway
Eleven stones stand in a rough ring on farmland between Holywood and Newbridge, a little north-west of Dumfries. Five are still earthfast; the rest…
- Near Newton Stewart
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Twelve Apostles, West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
A circle on Rombalds Moor reduced from twenty stones to twelve, all of which had fallen by the mid twentieth century and were re-erected without au…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Twizell Castle
Northumberland
A castle on a bend of the River Till at Tillmouth Park, protected by law for its architecture and its archaeology.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Twmbarlwm
Caerphilly
A hillfort, a Norman castle mound and a giant's grave all share one summit, and the hill's silhouette is still read across Gwent as a symbol of the…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Twmpath Castle
Cardiff
Once the third-largest motte (a steep artificial mound built to carry a timber tower) in the medieval Lordship of Glamorgan, it held one link in an…
- Near Cardiff
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Twthill, Rhuddlan
denbighshire
The Norman earthwork that held North Wales before Edward I's stone castle replaced it 300 yards away: with a borough, a church and a mint beside it…
- Near Denbigh
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Building or ruin
Twyford Waterworks
Hampshire
Three of only four surviving Babcock & Wilcox boilers in existence still stand here, alongside a working 1914 steam engine that once pumped Winches…
- Near Twyford
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Tŷ Newydd Burial Chamber
Isle of Anglesey
Excavation in 1935 found flint tools, a chip from a polished axe and Beaker pottery beneath the stones: evidence that Bronze Age (the period from a…
- Near Bangor
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Sacred place · Medieval
Tynemouth Priory and Castle
Tyne and Wear
Three kings are buried on this promontory, and North Tyneside's heraldry carries three crowns to say so.
- Near Tynemouth
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Tynron Doon
Dumfries and Galloway
Three ditches and two ramparts, some of them cut directly into the rock, guard the only gentle approach to Tynron Doon. On its other three sides th…
- Near Newton Stewart
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Tyrebagger stone circle
Aberdeen City
One of only a handful of recumbent stone circles left with all eleven of its original stones still in place: including a 24-ton granite giant laid…
- Near Dyce
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Tyrrellspass Castle
County Westmeath
The only Tyrrell castle to survive, and the namesake of the 1597 battle that gave the town its name: now a working restaurant with a 1280 roof beam…
- Near Tyrrellspass
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Uffington Castle
Oxfordshire
An Iron Age hillfort: a defended settlement on high ground: whose ramparts still carry a facing of white sarsen stone, standing directly beside the…
- Near Uffington
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Uffington White Horse
Oxfordshire
A hill figure 110 metres long, cut as deep trenches packed with crushed white chalk, older than the written record here.
- Near Uffington
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Uley Bury
Gloucestershire
Its double rampart (an encircling bank built for defence), terraced for over a mile around a 13-hectare hilltop, ranks it among the largest and bes…
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Uley Long Barrow
Gloucestershire
A five-thousand-year-old gallery grave that drew burials on and off for millennia: Neolithic (the closing Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) dead, a…
- Near Gloucester
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Roman
Ulshaw Bridge
North Yorkshire
Ulshaw Bridge is a protected seventeenth-century River Ure crossing whose arches, cutwaters and refuges preserve the practical craft of a minor-roa…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Ulverscroft Priory
Leicestershire
A community that grew from three canons to nine and a prior, then talked its way past the 1536 axe that felled the other small houses before fallin…
- Near Ulverscroft
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Union Chain Bridge
Northumberland
The Union Chain Bridge’s 1820 span is the world’s oldest road-carrying suspension bridge, making an Anglo-Scottish crossing a landmark of engineeri…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Up Holland Priory
Lancashire
Up Holland Priory preserves a rare line of continuity from a 1319 Benedictine foundation to a living parish church within protected medieval remains.
- Near Upholland
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Upavon Priory
Wiltshire
A modest daughter house of a Norman abbey that left almost nothing behind: not ruins, but a single farm barn, itself pulled down two centuries ago.
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Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Updown early medieval cemetery
Kent
Updown is a large seventh-century cemetery near the Kentish royal centre of Eastry, revealing Christian burial practice and long-distance ancestral…
- Near Eastry
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Upminster Tithe Barn
Greater London
Known as Upminster Tithe Barn but more accurately a medieval grange barn, this timber-framed agricultural building preserves Waltham Abbey’s 15th-c…
- Near Upminster
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Upnor Castle
Kent
Upnor Castle guarded Chatham’s Medway anchorage, endured the 1667 Dutch raid, and then became one of England’s leading naval ammunition depots.
- Near Upnor
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Upsall Castle
North Yorkshire
Upsall Castle preserves the fragmented remains of a Scrope quadrangular castle, revealing how fortification, family succession and reuse reshaped o…
- Easy path
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Ancient place · Medieval
Upthorpe Mill, Stanton
Suffolk
Painted grey during the war so it would not serve as a landmark for aircraft: RAF Shepherds Grove was close by.
- Near Stanton
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Fortified place · Medieval
Upton Castle
Pembrokeshire
A fortified mansion near a creek of the Cleddau whose chapel is older than the castle, and whose gardens outlived two owners, a national park and a…
- Near Cosheston
- Easy path
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Ancient place · Medieval
Upton Cressett medieval settlement
Shropshire
A deserted medieval village beside the surviving hamlet of Upton Cressett.
- Near Upton Cressett
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Urishay Castle
Herefordshire
A fifteenth-century room from this ruin was shipped to Kansas and rebuilt inside a university library, while the chapel's altar with its five carve…
- Near Peterchurch
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Urishay Castle Chapel
Herefordshire
Raised in the bailey of a Herefordshire castle in the early 12th century, it is likely the county's earliest purpose-built castle chapel: and still…
- Near Peterchurch
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Urquhart Castle
Highland
Blown up in 1692 to deny it to Jacobite forces, its shattered gatehouse and leaning tower still mark almost four centuries of siege along the Great…
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Usk Bridge (Brecon)
Powys
A Tudor bridge widened in every century since, with a 1950s concrete bed its own record calls extremely ugly.
- Near Brecon
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Usk Castle
Monmouthshire
A private family home built inside the ruins of a Marcher stronghold, with disarmed WWII naval mines standing as garden ornaments beside a medieval…
- Near Abergavenny
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Uxacona
Shropshire
A Romano-British settlement: Britain under Roman rule, AD 43–410: at the highest point of Watling Street, known from cropmarks and a stretch of ditch.
- Near Telford
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Sacred place · Medieval
Vale Royal Abbey
Cheshire
At Vale Royal, a royal Cistercian foundation survives chiefly through fragments folded into a later house, with excavated foundations marking the s…
- Near Northwich
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Sacred place · Medieval
Valle Crucis Abbey
Denbighshire
The last Cistercian monastery ever founded in Wales, its west front and rose-window masonry still standing over the only surviving monastic fishpon…
- Near Bakewell
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Vaudey Abbey
Lincolnshire
A Cistercian house that grew rich on wool and sent its abbot on royal business to the Prince of Wales, yet today survives only as earthworks inside…
- Near Lincoln
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Building or ruin · Roman
Venta Belgarum
Hampshire
At 58 hectares within its walls, this was one of the largest towns in Roman Britain: and the direct ancestor of modern Winchester.
- Near Winchester
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Venta Icenorum
Norfolk
Venta Icenorum was the Roman civitas capital of the Iceni, a deliberately created second-century administrative and trading town whose 2009 excavat…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Verlamion
Hertfordshire
Tasciovanus, the first ruler in Britain known to have struck coins bearing his own name, chose this hill as the seat from which he governed the Cat…
- Near St Albans
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Verterae
Cumbria
A single ridge above Swindale Beck carries two forts stacked on top of each other: a Roman garrison abandoned around 410 and, six centuries later,…
- Near Carlisle
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Verulamium
Hertfordshire
Sacked and burnt by Boudica in AD 61, rebuilt in stone twice over, its theatre survives as Britain's only fully excavated Roman stage theatre.
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Ancient place · Iron Age
Vespasian's Camp
Wiltshire
Long before Stonehenge's stones went up, this hillside was already a gathering place: flint tools dug up here in 2010 were called ‘the most importa…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Vindobala
Northumberland
Vindobala’s cavalry-focused plan, rebuilt after fire and divided by the modern Military Road, makes buried Roman frontier strategy visible in an op…
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Building or ruin · Roman
Vindolanda
Northumberland
A Roman auxiliary fort south of Hadrian's Wall which it pre-dated, and one of the most heavily excavated sites on the frontier.
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Vindomora
County Durham
A whole English village grew directly on top of a Roman fort's footprint, so altars and rampart (a defensive embankment ringing the site) stone sti…
- Near Ebchester
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Vinquoy chambered cairn
Orkney Islands
Vinquoy is a restored Stone Age burial monument on Eday, built around a central chamber with four small side-cells and overlooking Calf Sound.
- Near Eday
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Viroconium Cornoviorum
Shropshire
A Roman city at Wroxeter, once probably Britain's fourth-largest Roman settlement.
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Voley Castle
Devon
Voley Castle is a rare Devon slight univallate hillfort: a defended hilltop settlement: whose unusual outer earthwork, a bank or ditch shaped from…
- Near Parracombe
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Wadbury Camp
Somerset
A promontory fort guarding the Mendip mining district: and probably an outwork of the larger camp across the river.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Wain's Hill
Somerset
Wain's Hill is a compact defended settlement dating from the period from roughly 800 BC to the Roman conquest. Its natural slopes and surviving eas…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Wakefield Castle
West Yorkshire
A motte: the earthen mound a castle was raised on: and two baileys in a Wakefield park, probably built without royal permission and abandoned befor…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Walbury Hill
Berkshire
The ground beneath its ramparts is the highest natural point in South East England, and on a clear day the view reaches all the way to The Shard in…
- Near Combe
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Walden Castle
Essex
Walden Castle is a rare physical trace of the Anarchy in Essex, showing how Geoffrey de Mandeville used castles to control territory before royal p…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Wallace's House
Dumfries and Galloway
Wallace's House is an earthen rampart (an encircling bank built for defence) raised on a promontory near Lochmaben in Dumfries and Galloway. The de…
- Near Newton Stewart
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Tregonan Grange
Cornwall
Tregonan Grange records the agricultural reach of Beaulieu Abbey into Cornwall and the near-total loss of a Cistercian outlying estate whose remain…
- Near Helston
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Trevelgue Head
Cornwall
Trevelgue Head is an Iron Age promontory fort: a coastal spur defended by banks thrown across its neck, the period from roughly 800 BC to the Roman…
- Near Newquay
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Trink Hill
Cornwall
Trink Hill preserves a summit barrow: a prehistoric burial mound of earth: standing stone and mining landscape above west Cornwall, showing how a s…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Trippet stones
Cornwall
The Trippet Stones are a Bodmin Moor circle whose surviving granite uprights, lost stones and visual relationship with the Stripple Stones preserve…
- Near Bodmin
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Tulach an t-Sionnaich
Highland
Excavation found the earliest known heel-shaped cairn (a mound of piled stones, often covering a burial) on the Scottish mainland folded inside two…
- Near Watten
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Tulketh Priory
Lancashire
A short-lived Cistercian foothold whose monks moved on in 1127 to found Furness Abbey, taking Tulketh's community north with them.
- Near Preston
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Fortified place · Medieval
Tully Castle
County Fermanagh
Tully Castle preserves a Plantation-era Lough Erne stronghold whose destruction in the 1641 rebellion ended Hume occupation and left a rare fortifi…
- Near Enniskillen
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Fortified place · Medieval
Tullyhogue Fort
County Tyrone
Tullyhogue Fort was the O’Neill inauguration site, where ceremonial guardians and the Leac na Rí embodied the political sovereignty of Tyrone.
- Near Cookstown
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Fortified place · Medieval
Tullykelter Castle
County Fermanagh
Tullykelter Castle preserves a heavily overgrown Plantation-era ruin whose land grant, Scottish family, and troubled tenancies reveal Fermanagh’s s…
- Near Enniskillen
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Sacred place · Medieval
Turlough Abbey
County Mayo
A monastic site with roots reputedly reaching back to Saint Patrick's own mission, marked today by an unusually low and squat round tower unlike an…
- Near Castlebar
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Ty Mawr Burial Chamber
Isle of Anglesey
Ty Mawr is a collapsed Neolithic passage grave: a tomb reached by a stone-lined passage from the late Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC in Britain: w…
- Near Llanfairpwllgwyngyll
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Tynte's Castle
County Cork
Tynte’s Castle retains a fortified late-medieval merchant tower in Youghal’s centre, its 1643 refurbishment and later prison use recording the town…
- Near Youghal
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ullerwood Castle
Greater Manchester
Ullerwood Castle is a little-documented early medieval (roughly AD 400–1100, between the Romans and the Normans) stronghold on Manchester’s souther…
- Near Ringway
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Upleadon Preceptory
Herefordshire
A name on the map is almost the whole record: Upleadon's preceptory (a local estate of a military order such as the Knights Templar) tells of a van…
- Near Upleadon
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Uragh Stone Circle
County Kerry
Five low megaliths ring a shoulder of the Beara Peninsula between Lough Inchiquin and Lough Cloonee Upper, set beside a single standing stone that…
- Near Kenmare
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Urney Glebe
County Tyrone
Urney Glebe is a small Tyrone townland where a protected ecclesiastical site and carved cross slab preserve an early sacred landscape.
- Near Omagh
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Building or ruin · Roman
Waddon Hill
Dorset
Waddon Hill is a short-lived Roman fort whose archaeology now reveals earlier Iron Age (from about 800 BC until the Romans came) activity beneath a…
- Near Stoke Abbott
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Walden Abbey
Essex
Walden Abbey’s history connects the turbulence of the Anarchy, aristocratic burial and patronage, and the later transformation of monastic land int…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Wallace Monument
Stirling
Garibaldi helped pay for it. A statue of Wallace with Mel Gibson's face stood at the foot of the crag until the public loathing became unmanageable.
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