Sacred place · Medieval
Tandridge Priory
Surrey
A modest Augustinian religious house had a 1535 income less than a fifth of Sheen Priory's, yet its fishponds and footprint still shape the private…
- Near Tandridge
- Easy path
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Taunton Priory
Somerset
One of the five canons sent to reform the house in the 1110s went straight back to Merton. The reform was, in the record's words, apparently no eas…
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Tavistock Abbey
Devon
Tavistock Abbey was one of western England’s richest Benedictine houses, whose long history connects royal foundation, extensive estates, St Rumon’…
- Near Tavistock
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Teignmouth Abbey
Devon
Teignmouth Abbey traces the survival of an English Benedictine community from continental foundations and revolutionary exile to a purpose-built De…
- Near Teignmouth
- Easy path
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Temple Bruer Preceptory
Lincolnshire
The intact south tower still holds its rib-vaulted chamber, blind arcade and double piscina: a rare surviving fragment of a working Templar church,…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Temple Church, Bristol
Bristol
A round Templar church rebuilt as a rectangular one grew a west tower that leans further off true than Pisa's, its distortion the honest work of so…
- Near Bristol
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Temple Guiting Preceptory
Gloucestershire
A working Templar estate whose closure in 1308–1309 pensioned its last preceptor onto the very lands he had once run for the order.
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Templecombe Preceptory
Somerset
Templecombe Preceptory was a Templar administrative centre whose later St John and post-Dissolution (Henry VIII's closure of the monasteries in the…
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Tewkesbury Abbey
Gloucestershire
The crossing tower here is reckoned England's largest and finest Romanesque (the round-arched style that came before Gothic) tower, and the town bo…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
The Bull Ring
Derbyshire
One of the few Peak District henges known to have held a stone setting inside it: dismantled, by local account, to floor a canal-age tramway.
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The Charterhouse, Coventry
West Midlands
Its refectory (the monks' dining hall) still holds the only surviving medieval wall painting from a Carthusian monastery anywhere in England, hidde…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
The Goatstones
Northumberland
The Goatstones preserves a Bronze-Age four-poster stone circle near Ravensheugh Crags, with cup marks and a possible earlier burial cairn, a mound…
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
The Hurlers (stone circles)
Cornwall
The Hurlers are three aligned stone circles on Bodmin Moor, a large ceremonial complex with surviving stones, nearby monoliths and a long record of…
- Near Minions
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
The Leper Hospital of St Giles
Essex
Maldon’s Hospital of St Giles preserves rare fabric from a medieval institution that moved from leper care to wider poor relief before becoming a f…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
The Longstones
Wiltshire
The only stones left standing from a rectangular prehistoric (from the era before writing arrived in these islands) cove, and possibly the last tra…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
The Merry Maidens
Cornwall
The Merry Maidens is a late Neolithic (the first farming age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) Penwith stone circle whose intact-looking ring, associated Pipe…
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Prehistoric
The Pipers
Cornwall
The Pipers near Minions are a pair of standing stones closely associated with the Hurlers circles, anchoring a Bodmin Moor ceremonial complex along…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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The Priory, Pebworth
Worcestershire
A Tudor stone fireplace and a 17th-century staircase are the surviving seams joining a house to an older monastic property once tied to Evesham Abbey.
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
The Sanctuary
Wiltshire
Excavation found a young girl buried beside the inner stone circle, her body aligned with the sunrise on the equinox, in a monument rebuilt through…
- Easy path
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Wallingford Priory
Oxfordshire
A small Berkshire cell of St Albans Abbey trained two abbots and produced Richard of Wallingford, the monk-scientist whose astronomical clock desig…
- Near Wallingford
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Wallingwells Priory
Nottinghamshire
A tiny Benedictine nunnery whose unusually complete roll of prioresses and pensions after Henry VIII’s closure of the monasteries in the 1530s pres…
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Walsingham Friary
Norfolk
A Franciscan house founded in 1347, Walsingham Friary preserves the outline of a distinct community in a town better known for its Marian shrine.
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Sacred place · Medieval
Walsingham Priory
Norfolk
Walsingham Priory was a major Marian pilgrimage site, built around the Holy House; royal visitors, Erasmus, its 1538 closure and a lasting ballad t…
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Waltham Abbey Church
Essex
Waltham Abbey Church preserves the Norman nave: the main western space where the congregation stood: of a pilgrimage abbey that was the last religi…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Wardon Abbey
Bedfordshire
A single Tudor wing standing alone in a Bedfordshire field is almost all that remains above ground of one of England's senior Cistercian houses, wh…
- Easy path
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Waterbeach Abbey
Cambridgeshire
One of only two English Franciscan nunneries founded directly from Longchamp Abbey in France, undone within sixty years not by decline but by the r…
- Near Waterbeach
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Waulud's Bank
Bedfordshire
Its curved bank and outer ditch so closely mirror the much larger Marden Henge in Wiltshire that the two river-edge sites may share a single Neolit…
- Near Luton
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Waun Mawn
Pembrokeshire
A site whose famous claim: that Stonehenge began here: has been argued down step by step since 2021 by the geology and by a re-reading of the evide…
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Waverley Abbey
Surrey
England's first Cistercian house, founded 1128: yet so poorly endowed its monks recorded famine even as it mothered four daughter abbeys.
- Some walking
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Welbeck Abbey
Nottinghamshire
A former Premonstratensian monastery transformed into a ducal estate, where monastic fabric survives inside the home that made Welbeck a centre of…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Wemyss Caves
Fife
Wemyss Caves preserve rare northern symbols from the period after Roman rule, Christian carvings and evidence of ritual use along Fife’s coast.
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Sacred place · Medieval
Wendling Abbey
Norfolk
Wendling Abbey was a Premonstratensian house with a far-reaching Norfolk estate, close links to Prémontré, a repeatedly documented struggle to main…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Wenlock Priory
Shropshire
A priory that nearly became a cathedral in 1540: and whose church was pulled down instead, leaving a south transept, the side arm that crosses the…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Werthyr standing stone
Isle of Anglesey
The Werthyr standing stone west of Amlwch stands 3.1 metres high; reports of a second upright and capstone preserve a fragmentary record of a once…
- Near Amlwch
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
West Acre Priory
Norfolk
West Acre Priory preserves a rare Grade I monastic gatehouse whose heraldry records de Toni and Warwick connections, while its 1538 closure and unr…
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Sacred place · Medieval
West Dereham Abbey
Norfolk
West Dereham Abbey was a large, wealthy Premonstratensian house founded by Hubert Walter at his birthplace, whose late-medieval teaching reforms, c…
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West Ravendale Priory
Lincolnshire
Only earthworks and scattered rubble now mark a priory, a monastery run by a prior, whose ownership passed from a Breton abbey, a monastery headed…
- Near Lincoln
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Westminster Abbey
Greater London
Westminster Abbey has been the setting for English and British coronations since 1066 and is a national burial place, but it is also a living royal…
- Near Winchester
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Westwood Priory
Worcestershire
A small Worcestershire priory tied by obedience to Fontevraud Abbey, the Loire monastery where Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Richard the Lionh…
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Wet Withens
Derbyshire
Its earthen bank, over 30 metres across, makes Wet Withens the largest embanked stone circle known in Derbyshire: a Bronze Age (the period from abo…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Wetheral Priory Gatehouse
Cumbria
English Heritage rates it the finest medieval gatehouse in Cumbria: and it survived only because Henry VIII's men found little else worth keeping.
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Weybourne Priory
Norfolk
Weybourne Priory's Saxon tower and church-adjacent ruins trace a shift from West Acre dependency to independence, a sharply shrinking community and…
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Whalley Abbey
Lancashire
A working monastery relocated wholesale after three disasters at its old home, then rebuilt over 150 years into one of the largest Cistercian house…
- Near Lancaster
- Easy path
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Tarrant Abbey
Dorset
Tarrant Abbey was a wealthy Cistercian nunnery whose buried remains and surviving lay church preserve a remarkable women’s religious foundation in…
- Near Tarrant Crawford
- Easy path
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Temple Ewell Preceptory
Kent
Temple Ewell Preceptory records the succession of Knights Templar and Knights Hospitaller at a long-used Dover road site, from a Saxon wooden churc…
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Thame Abbey
Oxfordshire
A Cistercian monastery founded in 1137 by Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln, and dissolved in the 1530s.
- Near Thame
- Easy path
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The Abbey, Storrington
West Sussex
Built in 1871-2 out of the 1621 rectory it replaced, and altered by every tenant since: a billiard room and ballroom went in during 1930.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sacred place · Medieval
Warbleton Priory
East Sussex
Warbleton Priory preserves substantial archaeology of an Augustinian house re-established after coastal loss at Hastings, with its church, domestic…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Wareham Priory
Dorset
Wareham Priory records successive Saxon and Norman religious foundations on one site, ending in a Tudor house that still preserves the location as…
- Near Wareham
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
West Mersea Priory
Essex
West Mersea Priory records the long reach of a Norman monastery across the Channel: a 1046 Essex foundation dependent on Rouen, transferred to Arch…
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Sacred place · Medieval
West Peckham Preceptory
Kent
West Peckham Preceptory documents a late medieval Knights Hospitaller administrative centre in Kent, operating until Henry VIII’s Dissolution (Henr…
- Near West Peckham
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