Fortified place · Medieval
Yarmouth Castle
Isle of Wight
Yarmouth Castle is Henry VIII’s pioneering artillery fort, the first English example of an arrow-head bastion and a long-lived guardian of the Sole…
- Near Yarmouth
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Yarnbury Castle
Wiltshire
Traces of some 130 dwellings and nine infant burials in its ditches mark this out as one of Wessex's most intensively lived-in hillforts: yet it su…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Yattendon Castle
Berkshire
A dropped handkerchief at a 1520 dance here became courtroom evidence in the Anne Boleyn trial sixteen years later: the earthworks are almost all t…
- Near Yattendon
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Yeavering Bell
Northumberland
Yeavering Bell combines a massive defended hilltop enclosure with views toward the Anglian royal centre below, joining upland settlement to early N…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Yester Castle
East Lothian
Yester is remembered for its extraordinary underground Goblin Ha’, a surviving medieval hall bound to the enduring folklore of the ‘Wizard of Yester’.
- Near Dunbar
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Fortified place · Medieval
Yielden Castle
Bedfordshire
A double-baileyed stronghold of the Trailly family for over a century, now reduced to a grassed mound whose buried stone curtain was only confirmed…
- Near Yelden
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Yonder Bognie
Aberdeenshire
One of more than seventy recumbent stone circles unique to lowland Aberdeenshire, its closest architectural parallels lie not in Scotland but in so…
- Near Huntly
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
York Castle
North Yorkshire
A single motte (the great earth mound at the heart of an early castle) has carried a wooden fort, a quatrefoil stone keep, a Georgian jail and a Vi…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
York Franciscan Friary
North Yorkshire
A friary that once housed medieval nobility now survives as a single stone wall: one of the few physical traces of York's four medieval friaries to…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
York Minster
North Yorkshire
Built in stages between 1220 and 1472, it is the largest cathedral completed anywhere during the Gothic period, its east window alone holding the l…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Youghal Priory
County Cork
Oliver Cromwell made this decommissioned hospital-monastery his personal headquarters through the winter of 1649, turning a building built for pray…
- Near Youghal
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Yr Hen Gapel, Llanybri
Carmarthenshire
Believed to be the only Welsh church ever converted from Anglican to non-conformist worship: a reversal contemporaries themselves called remarkable.
- Near Llanybri
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ystrad Peithyll
Ceredigion
A Norman motte thrown up on the River Peithyll and burned out by Welsh rebels within a few years: a fortification whose failure is as telling as it…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Roman
Ythan Wells
Aberdeenshire
Two marching camps of different size and date lie stacked on the same patch of ground: among the northernmost Roman camps ever built in Scotland.
- Near Huntly
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Zouches Manor
Cambridgeshire
One of five historic manors packed into a single Cambridgeshire village, its documented life spans 1066 to 1539 and threads together a Breton earl,…
- Near Cambridge
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Yarrowbury
Devon
Yarrowbury is an Iron Age hillfort: a defended enclosure on high ground, ringed with banks and ditches, dating from the centuries before Rome arriv…
- Near Bigbury
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Yellowmead stone circle
Devon
Yellowmead is a rare Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking spread) concentric stone circle of four rings, with excavated evidence of a…
- Near Sheepstor
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Roman
York city walls
North Yorkshire
York’s city walls trace nearly two millennia of defence, from Roman Eboracum to medieval bars and a living circuit shaped by later restoration.
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Zennor Quoit
Cornwall
Zennor Quoit is one of West Penwith's best-preserved prehistoric (before any written account of Britain existed) burial chambers, retaining a huge…
- Near Zennor
- Rough ground
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