Building or ruin · Roman
Beadlam Roman villa
North Yorkshire
Three sides of a Roman farm's courtyard still trace across a Yorkshire field, with one building's walls surviving in situ some seventeen centuries…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Beadlow Priory
Bedfordshire
A vanished Benedictine priory whose buildings disappeared so completely that by 1908 nothing stood above ground: its plan survives only because arc…
- Near Beadlow
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Bear Place
Berkshire
A Georgian house built partly from the bones of the Elizabethan mansion it replaced: its vanished predecessor still traced by the moat beside it.
- Near Wargrave
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Roman
Bearsden Roman fort
East Dunbartonshire
Bearsden preserves one of the Antonine Wall’s best-known military bathhouses, discovered beneath twentieth-century housing and now protected close…
- Near Bearsden
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Beaubec Abbey
County Meath
Historians have argued for a century over whether this monastery even existed at all, and it took a modern dig to give the argument physical ground…
- Near Navan
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Sacred place · Medieval
Beauchief Abbey
South Yorkshire
Historians once accused its founder of murdering Thomas Becket and building the abbey in penance: a claim later research quietly dismantled.
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Beaudesert Castle
Warwickshire
An Iron Age fort reshaped into a Norman castle, seat of the de Montforts for more than a century, and now a mound with one stone on it.
- Near Henley-in-Arden
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Beaulieu Abbey
Hampshire
The only English abbey (a monastery headed by an abbot) founded by King John, and populated not from a nearby house but by thirty monks sent direct…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Beaumaris Castle
Isle of Anglesey
Beaumaris Castle is Edward I’s most symmetrical concentric fortress, designed to secure Anglesey after conquest but never completed; its sea-suppli…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Beaumaris town walls
Isle of Anglesey
Beaumaris town walls show how Edward I’s initially unwalled colonial town responded to Owain Glyndŵr’s 1403 capture: a 15th-century circuit of ditc…
- Near Beaumaris
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Beaumont Castle
Oxfordshire
A medieval castle at Mixbury, built either on a mound or as a circular banked enclosure.
- Near Mixbury
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Fortified place · Medieval
Beaumys Castle
Berkshire
The 1347 raid that killed a nobleman, terrified a son of Edward III, and ended in a forced marriage is the best-documented event at this otherwise…
- Near Swallowfield
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Beauvale Priory
Nottinghamshire
Beauvale is the best survivor of England’s late Carthusian expansion: a 1343 house established for a prior and twelve solitary monks.
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Sacred place · Medieval
Beckford Priory
Worcestershire
Little survives above ground of the Augustinian priory itself: only a crypt beneath a country house that later served as a Catholic college and now…
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Beckhampton Avenue
Wiltshire
One stone still stands, called Adam. Excavation in 2000 recovered the rest of the avenue from below ground, as post-holes.
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Sacred place · Medieval
Bective Abbey
County Meath
Its 15th-century cloister is one of the best preserved in Ireland: and three centuries after the monks left, the ruins doubled as a medieval battle…
- Near Navan
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Bedale Market Cross
North Yorkshire
Bedale Market Cross anchors the town’s medieval market charter, street pattern and civic gathering place in a rare Grade I scheduled monument (desi…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Bedd Arthur
Pembrokeshire
Thirteen upright stones in a broken horseshoe on a Preseli ridge, with fallen stones and a faint bank and ditch completing the outline.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bedd-y-Cawr Hillfort
Denbighshire
One of a dense cluster of hillforts crowning the Rhos Hills above the River Elwy, its name recalling a giant's grave though no burial has ever been…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Bedford Castle
Bedfordshire
For eight weeks in 1224 it withstood the concentrated military resources of the entire English crown, one of the longest and costliest sieges of th…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Beech Bottom Dyke
Hertfordshire
It likely belonged to a chain of earthworks - with Devil's Dyke and The Slad - that may have sealed the Catuvellauni's tribal capital between two r…
- Near Hertford
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Beeleigh Abbey
Essex
Beeleigh Abbey preserves a rare Premonstratensian foundation near Maldon, later transformed into a farmhouse and private residence while retaining…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Beeley Moor
Derbyshire
A square Bronze Age cairn holding cremated bone anchors this moor's scattered monuments: the same heather ground where a 1977 siege became one of B…
- Near Bakewell
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Fortified place · Medieval
Beeston Castle
Cheshire
A stronghold with no keep at all: its builder trusted a sheer sandstone crag and a ring of D-shaped towers to do a keep's job instead.
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Begar Priory
North Yorkshire
A Carthusian cell whose ownership passed between a royal chantry, Eton College and a monastery of its own order long after its own community had va…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Behy court tomb
County Mayo
Its court and chamber were built with drystone walling instead of the standing stones typical of the type: a construction choice that quietly compl…
- Near Belmullet
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Belas Knap
Gloucestershire
Excavations here recovered the remains of more than forty people, added to four chambers across many generations behind a grand entrance that turns…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Belbury Castle
Devon
Its very purpose is unresolved: hillfort or livestock pen: and its name preserves a stray echo of Beowulf in the Devon landscape.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Belfast Castle
County Antrim
The name has outlived four separate castles on two sites: a Victorian mansion on Cave Hill inherited the title from a medieval stronghold fought ov…
- Near Belfast
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Bellister Castle
Northumberland
Bellister Castle combines a ruinous medieval tower with a nineteenth-century castellated mansion, preserving nearly eight centuries of adaptation n…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Belmont Abbey, Herefordshire
Herefordshire
A Victorian Catholic revival church that briefly held a monastic cathedral chapter: an arrangement last seen in England at Canterbury, Winchester a…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Belmont Hall, Cheshire
Cheshire
A Palladian house completed in 1755 to a design begun by James Gibbs but finished after his death by an unknown hand, its bow windows and Rococo ce…
- Near Great Budworth
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Belsar's Hill
Cambridgeshire
A fen-island stronghold that changed hands between prehistory and the Norman Conquest, sitting squarely on the only causeway into rebel-held Ely.
- Near Willingham
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Belsay Castle
Northumberland
Belsay Castle is a Grade I pele tower whose medieval defence became an attached manor, then a deliberately romantic folly within the Belsay estate.
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Beltany stone circle
County Donegal
One of Ireland's finest surviving stone circles, Beltany may sit atop ritual ground already sacred to Neolithic (the late Stone Age, roughly 4000–2…
- Near Raphoe
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Belvoir Castle
Leicestershire
Rebuilt at least four times on the same commanding ridge, the present castle is a Georgian fantasy of a medieval stronghold: yet it has housed one…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Bembridge Fort
Isle of Wight
Bembridge Fort is a Palmerston-era command fort on the Isle of Wight, whose long military life spans invasion fears, submarine detection, air defen…
- Near Bembridge
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Benefield Castle
Northamptonshire
A minor ringwork: a castle enclosure ringed by a bank: whose garrison, serving the future Edward I, raided a neighbouring manor and stole a town's…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Benington Castle
Hertfordshire
One of at least 21 castles Henry II had torn down in 1177 - yet its earthworks survive because a Georgian house was later built to make use of them…
- Near Hertford
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bennachie
Aberdeenshire
Its summit fort at Mither Tap has stone ramparts with none of the vitrification seen at other Aberdeenshire hillforts, and the hill has been floate…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Bentley Priory
greater-london
A medieval Augustinian cell whose site is lost, a Soane mansion built over it, a dowager queen's deathbed, and the room where the Battle of Britain…
- Near Gloucester
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Fortified place · Medieval
Benton Castle
Pembrokeshire
Two unequal round towers flanking an entrance above the wooded Eastern Cleddau, around a courtyard later taken into a private house.
- Near Burton
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Tomb or burial place · Pictish & early medieval
Benty Grange hlaew
Derbyshire
Its low mound in a Peak District field hid the first Anglo-Saxon helmet ever found: the one with a bronze boar glaring above a Christian cross.
- Near Bakewell
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Berden Priory
Essex
Berden Priory’s site preserves the memory of an Essex religious house through the later Grade II* timber-framed farmhouse at the centre of Berden P…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Berkeley Castle
Gloucestershire
The oldest continuously occupied castle in England still held by the family that rebuilt it in the 12th century, and the traditional scene of a kin…
- Near Gloucester
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Berkhamsted Castle
Hertfordshire
A wooden fort raised within weeks of the Norman Conquest grew into a royal residence and administrative seat of the Earldom of Cornwall, and later…
- Near Berkhamsted
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Sacred place · Medieval
Bermondsey Abbey
Greater London
A prince was born here and a discarded queen died here centuries later: royal ties that outlasted the buildings themselves, of which only a gatehou…
- Near Gloucester
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Berry Camp
Devon
On a plateau some 140 metres above the sea, where Langham Field on Littlecombe Hill near Branscombe in Devon runs out towards the cliff, the earthw…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Berry Castle, Black Dog
Devon
Berry Castle is an unusual Devon earthwork, a bank, ditch or mound shaped from soil rather than built in stone, that challenges the expected form a…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Berry Castle, Somerset
Somerset
A defended hillside enclosure near Luccombe, marked by surviving banks.
- Near Luccombe
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Berry Head
Devon
An Iron Age hill fort here was largely erased by Napoleonic forts built in a single decade to guard the Torbay fleet from French invasion.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Berry Mound
Worcestershire
Excavation uncovered evidence of a later refortification episode that oddly matches local tradition of King Alfred trapping Danish raiders within i…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Berry Pomeroy Castle
Devon
A private fortress raised as late as the 1480s, then rebuilt inside its own walls as a four-storey Tudor mansion: two castles in one, sharing a sin…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Berry Ring
Staffordshire
A hillfort: a defended enclosure on high ground, ringed with banks and ditches: whose bank has almost gone but whose ditch is still eighteen metres…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Berry's Wood
Devon
A single limestone rampart (a defensive bank of earth or stone) still rings a wooded hilltop above the River Lemon, with a sunken approach and a po…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Berth Hill
Staffordshire
Josiah Wedgwood II piped water off this hillfort, a defended hilltop settlement of the Iron Age, to his hall - damaging the inner rampart, a defens…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Roman
Bertha (Perth)
Perth and Kinross
A Roman fort north of Perth at the meeting of the Almond and the Tay.
- Near Perth
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Berwick Castle
Northumberland
Berwick Castle’s repeated Anglo-Scottish captures and railway-era dismantling make its fragmentary remains an unusually direct record of changing b…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Betchworth Castle
Surrey
A crumbled fortified medieval stone house north of Brockham, its corners strengthened in the eighteenth century.
- Near Betchworth
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Beverley Friary
East Riding of Yorkshire
The surviving range is the guesthouse of a Dominican priory that once stood at its maximum extent by 1400: the only fragment left after the rest wa…
- Near Dunbar
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Fortified place · Medieval
Beverston Castle
Gloucestershire
A rare pentagonal castle, its bluish stone likely quarried alongside Calcot Manor's, that survived a 12th-century battle and a 17th-century siege a…
- Near Gloucester
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bevisbury
Hampshire
A Roman road cuts straight through this Iron Age (from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest) fort's ramparts and still does today, as the ordinar…
- Near Chute
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Bewcastle Castle
Cumbria
Its dry moat still follows the ditch of the Roman fort it replaced, and a rigged football match here once became the trigger for a Border reiver am…
- Near Brampton
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Roman
Bewcastle Roman Fort
Cumbria
An outpost fort built as an irregular hexagon rather than the usual playing-card shape, garrisoned to watch the ground north of Hadrian's Wall and…
- Near Brampton
- Some walking
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Carved stone · Medieval
Bewell's Cross
Bristol
A boundary cross that doubled as Bristol's place of execution for centuries, where the condemned said a final prayer before being hanged on the hil…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Bickleigh Castle
Devon
Bickleigh Castle layers a Norman chapel, fifteenth-century Courtenay mansion and Civil War destruction beside the Exe, with its gatehouse and walls…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Bicknacre Priory
Essex
Bicknacre Priory records an Austin Canon foundation that grew from a hermitage, struggled financially and vanished before the Dissolution (Henry VI…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Bicton Castle
Shropshire
An eleventh- or twelfth-century castle site at Bicton, where only the ditch and outer bank survive.
- Near Bicton
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Sacred place · Medieval
Biddlesden Abbey
Northamptonshire
Biddlesden's documented history follows a small Cistercian house from a contested foundation through internal scandal, rebuilding and centuries of…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Roman
Biddlestone Chapel
Northumberland
Biddlestone Chapel is a rare Catholic chapel built into a thirteenth-century pele tower, where medieval defence, Gothic Revival worship, and wartim…
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Bidford Bridge
Warwickshire
An early fifteenth-century bridge, pulled down in 1644 to cover Charles I's retreat and rebuilt six years later at the county's expense.
- Near Bidford-on-Avon
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bigbury Camp
Kent
Bigbury Camp is east Kent’s only confirmed Iron Age (from about 800 BC until the Romans came) hillfort, a defended settlement on high ground, prese…
- Near Canterbury
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Fortified place · Medieval
Biggleswade Castle
Bedfordshire
A castle whose stone was never dressed and whose walls were never built above earth: its entire form survives only as ditches and cropmarks along a…
- Near Biggleswade
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Billingsgate Roman House and Baths
City of London
Coins from the late 4th century found here are rare direct evidence of a large Roman townhouse still standing as imperial rule in Britain collapsed.
- Near City of London
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Bilsington Priory
Kent
Bilsington Priory is a rare surviving Augustinian house in Kent whose 1253 foundation, local hospital and preaching role, early Dissolution (Henry…
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Bincknoll Castle
Wiltshire
A single grassy promontory carries two unresolved stories at once: a disputed Iron Age (from about 800 BC until the Romans came) fort and the sturd…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Bindon Abbey
Dorset
Bindon Abbey preserves the story of a Cistercian community that moved from a harsh coastal site to the Frome valley, thrived under royal patronage…
- Near Wool
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Bindon Hill
Dorset
Bindon Hill is a vast Iron Age: roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest: coastal enclosure whose scale and sparse settlement evidence suggest a pas…
- Near West Lulworth
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Binham Priory
Norfolk
Binham Priory combines a living parish church with major Benedictine ruins, including England’s earliest surviving Gothic window tracery: carved st…
- Near Binham
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Building or ruin · Roman
Birdoswald Roman Fort (Banna)
Cumbria
Its granaries kept feeding a community for a century after Rome left Britain, the only stretch of the Wall where that continuity has been proven ar…
- Near Brampton
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Birkenhead Priory
Merseyside
Birkenhead Priory is Merseyside’s oldest standing building, preserving a Benedictine foundation whose ferry rights helped connect the Wirral and Li…
- Near Birkenhead
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Birkrigg stone circle
Cumbria
A double ring within a ring: twelve inner stones and twenty outer stones enclose a pavement that once covered five separate cremation burials.
- Near Ulverston
- Rough ground
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Birnie Symbol Stone
Moray
The Birnie Symbol Stone preserves a compact seventh-century Pictish (of the Picts, the people of northern and eastern Scotland from about AD 300 to…
- Near Elgin
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Birr Castle
County Offaly
A private family seat whose grounds held the largest telescope on Earth for seventy years, and now host a working node in a Europe-wide radio-astro…
- Near Birr
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Bisham Abbey
Berkshire
Two foundations stood entwined here, a Templar manor and an Augustinian priory (a religious house led by a prior, a rank below an abbot); when the…
- Near Bisham
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Bishop's Palace, Llandaff
Cardiff
Its gatehouse echoes Caerphilly Castle so closely that the same master mason may have built both, tying a bishop's residence to Wales's greatest fo…
- Near Llandaff, Cardiff
- Easy path
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Beaumont Cut
Essex
Beaumont Cut preserves a short-lived 19th-century canal over a possible Roman waterway, connecting rural Essex to London’s coastal trade and surviv…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Bedford Abbey
Bedfordshire
A vanished Benedictine house that once held the burial of an Archbishop of York, its community later re-emerging at Newnham as an Augustinian prior…
- Near Bedford
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Beenalaght
County Cork
Six standing stones set out in a single line across open pasture, carrying a name that simply counts them: An Seisear, "The Six."
- Near Mallow
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Belford Castle
northumberland
Philip Davis can see no reason to build a motte here when a better-defended prehistoric camp with a medieval chapel stands so close by: the identif…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Bellaghy Bawn
County Londonderry
Bellaghy Bawn turns a Plantation-era fortified house built over a ringfort into a record of rebellion, civic care, archaeology and local cultural m…
- Near Bellaghy
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Fortified place · Medieval
Belle Isle Castle
County Fermanagh
Belle Isle Castle layers an eighteenth-century Lough Erne estate, designed gardens, changing family ownership and a modern hospitality afterlife on…
- Near Lisbellaw
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Bellingham Castle
Northumberland
Bellingham Castle preserves the recorded location of a lost Northumberland motte-and-bailey (an early Norman castle of a timber tower on an earth m…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Belvelly Castle
County Cork
Belvelly Castle commands the bridge approach to Great Island, a compact tower house whose strategic position drew medieval families, wartime use an…
- Near Cobh
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Belvoir Priory
Leicestershire
Belvoir Priory was a small Benedictine cell of St Albans Abbey founded beside Belvoir Castle in 1076; its debt-stricken but patronised history and…
- Near Belvoir
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Fortified place · Medieval
Benburb Castle
County Armagh
Benburb Castle commands the Blackwater border from a limestone cliff, joining a restored historic bawn with later religious and nineteenth-century…
- Near Moy
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Sacred place · Medieval
Benedictine Priory, King's Lynn
Norfolk
King’s Lynn’s Benedictine Priory supported St Margaret’s and Norwich Cathedral from 1100 to 1537; its near-total loss makes the Minster (originally…
- Near King’s Lynn
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Benie Hoose
Shetland Islands
Benie Hoose lies in Nesting parish, towards the north-east of Whalsay, laid out in the unusual form of a figure of eight rather than the single rou…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Berry Castle, Huntshaw
Devon
Berry Castle preserves a rectangular Huntshaw Wood enclosure whose 2015 clearance revealed opposing entrances but left its Roman or early farming-p…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Roman
Birrens Roman Fort (Blatobulgium)
Dumfries and Galloway
More inscribed and sculptured Roman stones have been recovered from Birrens than from any other site in Scotland, and it is this dense scatter of a…
- Some walking
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