Fortified place · Medieval
Ballygunner Castle
County Waterford
A Georgian-fronted country house wrapped around medieval and 17th-century masonry, standing, by local belief, on the site of an earlier Viking stro…
- Near Waterford
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Ballykeel Dolmen
County Armagh
Excavation in 1963 recovered decorated Neolithic pottery, a javelin head and flint tools from a tomb whose three-metre granite capstone balances on…
- Near Lurgan
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ballylahan Castle
County Mayo
Only one of Ballylahan's twin towers survived a near-destruction in 1316, yet its bawn wall still shows the sloping base-batter of the Mac Siurtain…
- Near Castlebar
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ballyloughan Castle
County Carlow
Ballyloughan Castle is a County Carlow National Monument whose twin-towered gatehouse and high thirteenth-century walls preserve the outline of a s…
- Near Bagenalstown
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ballymalis Castle
County Kerry
Ballymalis Castle stands on the north bank of the River Laune, close to where the river meets the Gaddagh, on level ground about 4.3 km northwest o…
- Near Beaufort
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ballymoon Castle
County Carlow
Ballymoon Castle is a striking open-courtyard National Monument whose granite walls preserve a rare, possibly unfinished medieval castle plan near…
- Near Borris
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ballymore Castle
County Galway
A tower house built on a marriage settlement changed hands through Cromwellian confiscation and a Williamite siege, then quietly became a Georgian…
- Near Loughrea
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ballymote Castle
County Sligo
The most symmetrical of Ireland's keepless castles, closely paralleling Edward I's Beaumaris in Wales: and the last Norman castle ever raised in Co…
- Near Ballymote
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ballynahinch Castle
County Galway
A cricketing Indian prince, a brewer, and an animal-welfare pioneer each owned this house in turn: a private demesne that has passed through more s…
- Near Cleggan
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ballynahow Castle
County Tipperary
A five-storey tower still carries its full parapet defences intact: four evenly spaced machicolations and a walled secret chamber reached only thro…
- Near Clonmel
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Ballynoe stone circle
County Down
Its bones vanished into a Dutch basement for 90 years before a Belfast PhD student tracked them down and brought them home in 2023.
- Near Downpatrick
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ballyquirk
County Tipperary
What stands today is barely half the building: three vanished towers and a whole upper storey were stripped away in the nineteenth century, and an…
- Near Clonmel
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ballyshannon Castle
County Donegal
A vanished O'Donnell stronghold whose 1597 siege helped decide the fate of Gaelic Ulster, though not one stone of it now stands above ground.
- Near Ballyshannon
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Balmerino Abbey
Fife
Balmerino Abbey preserves rare Cistercian fabric on the Fife coast, including a vaulted chapter house, after centuries of destruction, residential…
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Fortified place · Roman
Balmuildy
East Dunbartonshire
Balmuildy is one of only two Antonine Wall forts known to have stone ramparts, with excavated baths, inscriptions and objects now held in Glasgow’s…
- Near Bearsden
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Balquhain
Aberdeenshire
A rounded hump on its ten-tonne recumbent stone echoes the outline of Mither Tap behind it, and 1980s survey work found its flanking stones deliber…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Balsall Preceptory
West Midlands
One manor grew into an administrative hub controlling nine further Templar properties across Warwickshire, run by a community arrested to a man whe…
- Near Balsall Common
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Sacred place · Medieval
Baltinglass Abbey
County Wicklow
A Cistercian church that once housed 36 monks and 50 lay brothers went on to mother its own daughter house at Jerpoint, spreading the order's stone…
- Near Baltinglass
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Fortified place · Medieval
Balvaird Castle
Perth and Kinross
Carved heads support the roundels on the wall-walk, and the cap-house over the stair is a miniature tower house of its own: detail that may have be…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Bamburgh Castle
Northumberland
Bamburgh Castle is a Northumberland coastal fortress whose Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Norman, royal, and Armstrong layers span more than 1,500 years.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Bampton Castle, Devon
Devon
A Norman motte (the great earth mound at the heart of an early castle) survived siege, a stone rebuild, and a licence to crenellate, yet stands tod…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Bampton Castle, Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire
Two irreconcilable founding stories - a queen's earthwork (a mound or ditch formed by moving soil, not by building) of 1142 and an earl's licensed…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Banbury Castle
Oxfordshire
Its 1225–50 rebuild gave it an early concentric pentagonal plan: a design historians note otherwise belongs to later castles like Harlech and Beaum…
- Near Banbury
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Banbury Hill
Dorset
Banbury Hillfort preserves a scheduled Iron Age (the period from roughly 800 BC to the Roman conquest) enclosure in Dorset, where a surviving rampa…
- Near Okeford Fitzpaine
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Banc y Betws
Carmarthenshire
Nothing is recorded of who raised this earthwork (banks and ditches raised from the earth rather than quarried stone) or why, yet at some nine metr…
- Near Carmarthen
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Bangor Abbey
County Down
Bangor Abbey was an early Irish centre of strict monastic learning whose teachers, manuscripts and missionaries linked County Down to Europe.
- Near Bangor
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Building or ruin · Roman
Bannaventa
Northamptonshire
A ploughed field straddling the parishes of Norton and Whilton in Northamptonshire holds nothing obviously Roman above ground, yet beneath it lie t…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Banwell Camp
Somerset
Stone Age artefacts, and others of the Bronze Age, roughly 2500-800 BC, have come off a hill fort raised long after both.
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Bar Convent
North Yorkshire
Its chapel hides a full dome beneath an ordinary slate roof and conceals eight separate escape routes: architecture built by nuns who lived under p…
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Fortified place · Roman
Bar Hill Fort
East Dunbartonshire
Bar Hill’s fort, bathhouse and deep well preserve unusually direct evidence of Antonine Wall garrison life, including shoes that may point to women…
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Barbrook One
Derbyshire
A modest ring on Ramsley Moor sits among roughly eighty prehistoric (before written records reached Britain) cairns, one of a tight cluster of ston…
- Near Bakewell
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Barbury Castle
Wiltshire
Two deep ditches and ramparts crown a downland vantage point where Roman-era buildings gave way to a Saxon conquest that helped found the kingdom o…
- Near Wroughton
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Barclodiad y Gawres
Isle of Anglesey
Barclodiad y Gawres is a Neolithic: the first farming period in Britain, roughly 4000–2500 BC: cruciform passage grave, a burial chamber entered al…
- Near Rhosneigr
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Barden Tower
North Yorkshire
A ruined 15th-century hunting lodge that, lacking any village to gather around, became the de facto centre of community life for the farms and haml…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Bardney Abbey
Lincolnshire
A Mercian king gave up his crown to become abbot here, and the community he founded later held the disputed relics of a Northumbrian saint for two…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Bardsey Island
Gwynedd
Bardsey Island is a remote Welsh pilgrimage island where a 6th-century monastic tradition, the legend of 20,000 saints, rare wildlife and dark-sky…
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Bargate
Hampshire
A working medieval gatehouse that has served in turn as guildhall, prison, courtroom, police headquarters and gallery, still spanning Southampton's…
- Near Basingstoke
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Bargy Castle
County Wexford
A working Norman keep still standing after eight centuries, its story tied to a rebel commander's execution, a Cromwellian confiscation, and the ch…
- Near Wexford
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Barham Friary
Cambridgeshire
One of a small number of English Crutched Friars houses, its chapel of St Margaret quietly outlived the friary (a community of friars, an order tha…
- Near Barham
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Barkhale Camp
West Sussex
An enclosure of the first farming age on Bignor Hill, its banks broken by causeways, of a class built in England from a little before 3700 BC.
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Barking Abbey
Greater London
For almost nine centuries its abbess outranked every other abbess in England, and the boy who fathered the Tudor dynasty was raised as a ward withi…
- Near Gloucester
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Barland Castle
Powys
An early Norman castle of timber tower and walled yard near Old Radnor, known also as Bishopston Old Castle.
- Near Old Radnor
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Sacred place · Medieval
Barlynch Priory
Somerset
An Augustinian priory reduced to fragments of wall in a farmhouse: with its best surviving glass several miles away in another church.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Barnard Castle (castle)
County Durham
A Balliol-built stronghold that later became one of Richard III's favourite residences, and whose owner stripped it to repair Raby Castle.
- Near Barnard Castle
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Barnhouse Settlement
Orkney Islands
A settlement of the first farming age on the shore of the Loch of Harray, close to the Standing Stones of Stenness.
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Barnsley Park
Gloucestershire
A Roman villa lies buried beneath its parkland, and the Georgian house standing above has stayed in the same family's hands since 1935.
- Near Gloucester
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Barnstaple Castle
Devon
Excavation beneath its earthen mound uncovered over a hundred early Christian graves, showing the Normans had raised their stronghold directly on t…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Barnstaple Priory
Devon
Its founder endowed the priory, a monastery headed by a prior and usually smaller than an abbey, a monastery headed by an abbot, with Barnstaple's…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Barnwell Castle
Northamptonshire
Barnwell Castle retains exceptional walls, towers and gatehouse from a thirteenth-century quadrangular stronghold with earlier Norman and Civil War…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Barnwell Priory
Cambridgeshire
An anonymous canon here chronicled the reign of King John, and in 1388 the site hosted the only Parliament ever held outside London or Westminster.
- Near Cambridge
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Barpa Langass
Outer Hebrides
Two massive slabs form the roof of Barpa Langass, with a third slab laid on top of them, capping a stone burial mound on the Isle of North Uist tha…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Barrow Camera
Derbyshire
A Knights Hospitaller administrative outpost whose stone hall survived Dissolution (Henry VIII's closure of the monasteries in the 1530s), absorbed…
- Near Bakewell
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Barrow Clump
Wiltshire
A single surviving Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC) burial mound, reused six centuries later as an Anglo-Saxon cemetery, later excavated by soldier…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Barrow Gurney Nunnery
Somerset
Minchin Barrow, a Benedictine convent so poor it transferred itself into a Welsh diocese: and ended as somebody's country house.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Barry Castle
Vale of Glamorgan
A wooden ringwall of the twelfth century rebuilt in stone, its gatehouse still standing two storeys high in a Barry suburb.
- Near Barry
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Barryscourt Castle
County Cork
Barryscourt is a restored sixteenth-century tower-house complex that preserves the imprint of the Barrys, the Desmond Rebellions and a later recove…
- Near Carrigtwohill
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bartinney Castle
Cornwall
Bartinney Castle is an Iron Age hilltop enclosure, dating from the period from roughly 800 BC to the Roman conquest, in Penwith whose circular eart…
- Near Penzance
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Roman
Bartlow Hills
Cambridgeshire
The tallest of its four surviving mounds rises some 15 metres: the largest Roman burial mound known north of the Alps.
- Near Bartlow
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Barwick-in-Elmet Castle
West Yorkshire
Four powers fortified this ground in turn: the Britons, the Romans, the kings of Northumbria and finally the Normans.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Basing House
Hampshire
A brick palace that once rivalled Hampton Court in scale was reduced to smoking rubble in a single afternoon in 1645, and villagers were then invit…
- Near Basingstoke
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Basingwerk Abbey
Flintshire
One of the best-preserved Cistercian domestic ranges in Wales: chapter house, dormitory and dining hall still legible around the covered monastery…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Bass of Inverurie
Aberdeenshire
A wooden castle mound that once governed the whole lordship of the Garioch, its earthworks still holding an oak gangway and a 14th-century face-jug…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bat's Castle
Somerset
A hillfort mapped for eighty years before anyone recognised it: until schoolboys found eight coins spanning four and a half centuries.
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Bath Abbey
Somerset
A parish church standing on the site of a former Benedictine monastery in the centre of Bath.
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Bath city walls
Somerset
Defences around the city, Roman in origin and restored by the Anglo-Saxons.
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Bath Gorgon
Somerset
A first-century pediment carved by Gaulish craftsmen, found in 1790, whose central head has been read three different ways and settled as none of t…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Batham Gate
Derbyshire
A Roman road whose true line has to be pieced together from a scheduled earthwork, a buried stone road-bed under a Sheffield field, and a single mi…
- Near Bakewell
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bathampton Down
Somerset
A single bank and flat-bottomed ditch on a limestone plateau 170 metres above the Avon, where the ground falls away towards Bath.
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Battle Abbey
East Sussex
The high altar of its ruined church was built to stand on the exact spot where King Harold reputedly fell in 1066, turning a battlefield into a mon…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Roman
Battledykes
Angus
Assessed to have sheltered 50,000 to 60,000 men, this is one of the largest Roman camps ever built in Scotland: a single night's stop on a campaign…
- Near Forfar
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Battlegore Burial Chamber
Somerset
Three round mounds and possibly a long one at Williton, excavated by George Gray in 1931.
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Battlesbury Camp
Wiltshire
An Iron Age fort above Warminster whose pits held a chariot-wheel hub, a carpenter's saw and a door latch-lifter: the gear of people living there.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Bayard's Cove Fort
Devon
One of the few English blockhouses whose eleven gunports still face the water they were built to sweep, English Heritage has already named it among…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Bayham Old Abbey
East Sussex
Bayham’s finely carved ruins preserve a Premonstratensian abbey (a monastery headed by an abbot) born from two failing monasteries, later reshaped…
- Near Lamberhurst
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Bayle Museum
East Riding of Yorkshire
A single stone gatehouse carried a wooden castle, a priory's tolls and alms, a prison, a garrison and a town hall before becoming a museum of its o…
- Near Dunbar
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Baynard Castle, Cottingham
East Riding of Yorkshire
A double-ditched stronghold hosted a king twice within a century, then vanished so completely that within decades farmhouses stood inside its own e…
- Near Dunbar
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Baynard House, London
City of London
A brutalist telecoms tower standing directly over the buried remains of London's last riverside castle, and the rooftop where a Hollywood stunt fam…
- Near City of London
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Baynard's Castle
City of London
Two royal dynasties met their political end inside its walls: Lady Jane Grey's nine-day reign was formally ended here, and Richard III accepted the…
- Near London
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Beacon Hill Battery
Essex
Beacon Hill Battery is a layered defence of Harwich harbour, preserving Tudor, Napoleonic, Victorian and Second World War responses to the strategi…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Beacon Hill, Burghclere, Hampshire
Hampshire
One of Hampshire's best-preserved Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC) hillforts, settlements defended by banks and ditc…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Iron Age
Beacon Hill, West Sussex
West Sussex
A defended hilltop on the South Downs in the parish of Elsted and Treyford, known also as Harting Beacon.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Beacon Ring
powys
A hilltop enclosure raised in the centuries before Rome arrived, with a royal monogram planted inside it in trees.
- Near Welshpool
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ballyhannon Castle
County Clare
Ballyhannon Castle is an exceptionally intact fifteenth-century Clare tower house whose complex passages, defences and long MacNamara history survi…
- Near Quin
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Ancient place · Medieval
Ballyharry
County Antrim
Ballyharry is an Islandmagee townland where well-preserved Neolithic (the closing Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) house sites bring early settleme…
- Near Newtownabbey
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ballyheigue Castle
County Kerry
The crenellated parapet that gives Ballyheigue Castle its name crowns a building that was never a fortress. What stands ruined above a golf course…
- Near Ballyheigue
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Ballylumford Dolmen
County Antrim
A four-thousand-year-old portal tomb (a Neolithic tomb of upright stones carrying a single great capstone) stands not in a field or forest but in t…
- Near Larne
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ballymaloe House
County Cork
Ballymaloe House incorporates traces of a fifteenth-century Anglo-Norman castle within a later country house that became a landmark of modern Irish…
- Near Shanagarry
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ballymarkahan Castle
County Clare
Ballymarkahan Castle is a MacNamara fifteenth-century tower house in Quin, recorded as a ruin for nearly two centuries and part of Clare’s dense ca…
- Near Quin
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Ancient place · Medieval
Ballymully Glebe
County Tyrone
Ballymully Glebe frames Tullyhogue Fort within a 144-acre County Tyrone townland whose name and nineteenth-century population decline preserve loca…
- Near Cookstown
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Ballynageeragh Portal Tomb
County Waterford
A late-1930s dig found cremated bone, flint and charcoal sealed in the chamber, then a hurried 1940 rebuild fixed the ancient stones in place with…
- Near Waterford
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Ballyroney Castle
County Down
Ballyroney Castle records a County Down motte-and-bailey (an early Norman form, a timber tower raised on a mound with a walled court beside it) sit…
- Near Banbridge
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Sacred place · Medieval
Ballywiheen
County Kerry
An ogham stone raised as a grave marker around AD 500 to 550 stands within a circular enclosure on the southern flank of Croaghmarhin mountain, hal…
- Near Dingle
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Bangor Castle
County Down
Bangor Castle layers a former abbey (a self-governing monastery, its head an abbot) site, a Victorian Jacobethan mansion and civic administration w…
- Near Bangor
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Building or ruin · Roman
Banovallum
lincolnshire
A market town with a piece of Roman wall still standing in it, and a Roman name that may or may not belong to the place.
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Bant's Carn
Cornwall
A well-preserved Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking spread) entrance grave on St Mary's, excavated in 1900 and restored from the or…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Barmeath Castle
County Louth
Its grounds were shaped by the 18th-century landscape architect Thomas Wright, laid over a castle that had already stood for three centuries by the…
- Near Dundalk
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Barsalloch Fort
Dumfries and Galloway
The site carries two widely separated chapters of the human past. Aspects of Barsalloch Fort are thought to date to the Mesolithic period, placing…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Baswich Priory
Staffordshire
A monastic house under a prior, a rank below an abbot, founded in 1174 and dissolved in 1538.
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Beacon Castle
Devon
At roughly 290 metres above sea level, Beacon Castle occupies a hilltop close to Parracombe in Devon, its position commanding the ground that falls…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Beacon Hill, Leicestershire
Leicestershire
An Iron Age hilltop settlement, of the centuries before Rome arrived from about 800 BC, on some of the oldest volcanic rock in Britain, inside a co…
- Near Woodhouse
- Some walking
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