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Bushmead Priory |
Priory |
1185-95 |
Part complete |
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The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Bushmead, commonly called Bushmead Priory, was a monastic foundation for Augustinian Canons, located at Bushmead in the County of Bedfordshire in England. | English Heritage | |
De Grey Mausoleum |
Mausoleum |
1614 |
Complete |
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The de Grey Mausoleum in Flitton, Bedfordshire, England, is one of the largest sepulchral chapels in the country. | English Heritage | |
Houghton House |
Country House |
1615 |
Ruins |
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Houghton House is a ruined house located near Houghton Conquest in Bedfordshire, on the ridge just north of Ampthill, and about 8 miles south of Bedford. The house was built for the writer, translator, and literary patron Mary Sidney Herbert, Dowager Countess of Pembroke. | English Heritage | |
Wrest Park House and Gardens |
Country House |
1834-39 |
Complete |
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Wrest Park is a country estate located near Silsoe, Bedfordshire, England. It comprises Wrest Park, a Grade I listed country house, and Wrest Park Gardens, also Grade I listed, formal gardens surrounding the mansion. | English Heritage | |
Dunstable Downs |
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Whipsnade Tree Cathedral |
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Willington Dovecote & Stables |
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Denny Abbey and Farmland Museum |
Abbey or Priory |
1159 |
Parts survive |
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A former abbey near Waterbeach, north of Cambridge. A group of Benedictine monks, governed from Ely, moved here in the 1150s. They built a church, Denny Priory, which opened in 1159. The crossing and transepts are the only parts of the original Priory that remain today. In 1169 the monks returned to Ely and the site was handed to the Knights Templar. | English Heritage | |
Duxford Chapel |
Chapel |
1337 |
Complete |
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A chapel that was once part of the Hospital of St. John at Duxford, in Cambridgeshire, England, the hospital since demolished. Built using flint rubble for the walls and limestone for the doorways and windows. | English Heritage | |
Isleham Priory Church |
Church |
1090 |
Complete |
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A Norman church, Located in Isleham, and part of the former St Margaret's Benedictine Alien Priory. Later converted into a barn, but it remains in an unaltered state. | English Heritage | |
Longthorpe Tower |
Castle |
1310 |
Only tower remains |
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A fourteenth century, three-storey tower, originally part of a fortified manor house. Situated in the village of Longthorpe, now a residential area of Peterborough. | English Heritage | |
Anglesey Abbey, Garden & Lode Mill |
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Houghton Mill |
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Peckover House & Garden |
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Ramsey Abbey Gatehouse |
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National Trust |
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Wicken Fen |
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Wimpole Hall |
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Wimpole Home Farm |
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Beeston Castle |
Castle |
1220 |
Ruins |
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A former Royal castle in Beeston, perched above the Cheshire Plain. Built by Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester, on his return from the Crusades. In 1237, Henry III took over the ownership of Beeston, and it was kept in good repair until the 16th century. The castle was slighted in 1646. During the 18th century the site was used as a quarry. | English Heritage | |
Chester Castle: Agricola Tower and Castle Walls |
Castle |
1070 |
Partly complete |
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The castle overlooks the River Dee. In the castle complex are the remaining parts of the medieval castle together with the neoclassical buildings designed by Thomas Harrison which were built between 1788 and 1813. Parts of the neoclassical buildings are used today as Crown Courts and as a military museum. | English Heritage | |
Chester Roman Amphitheatre |
Amphitheatre |
1st Century |
Ruins |
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Ruins of a large Roman stone amphitheatre. Today, only the northern half of the structure is exposed; the southern half is covered by buildings. The amphitheatre is the largest so far uncovered in Britain, and dates from the 1st century, when the Roman fort of Deva Victrix was founded. Rediscovered in 1929. | English Heritage | |
Sandbach Crosses |
Monument |
9th Century |
Complete |
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Two Anglo-Saxon stone crosses now erected in the market place in the town of Sandbach. They are unusually large and elaborate examples of the type. They depict religious scenes, doll-like heads and beasts in panels, together with vine-scrolls, course interlace patterns and some dragons. | English Heritage | |
Alderley Edge |
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Dunham Massey |
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National Trust |
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Helsby Hill |
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National Trust |
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Hare Hill |
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National Trust |
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Little Moreton Hall |
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Lyme Park |
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Nether Alderley Mill |
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Quarry Bank Mill and Styal Estate |
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Tatton Park |
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Ballowall Barrow |
Cairn |
Neolithic |
Remains |
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A prehistoric funerary cairn (chambered tomb) situated on the cliff top at Ballowall Common, near St Just. It was first excavated in 1878 by William Copeland Borlase when it was discovered under mining debris. The site today is a confused mix of original and reconstructions introduced by Borlase. | English Heritage | |
Carn Euny Ancient Village |
Settlement and Fogou |
Iron Age |
Remains |
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A Romano-British village near Sancreed, on the Penwith peninsula, with considerable evidence of Iron Age settlement as well. Carn Euny is best known for the well-preserved state of the large fogou, an underground passageway, which is more than 20m long. | English Heritage | |
Chysauster Ancient Village |
Settlement |
Iron Age |
Remains |
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A Romano-British village of courtyard houses, believed to have been constructed and occupied between 100 BC and 400 AD; it was primarily agricultural and unfortified and probably occupied by members of the Dumnonii tribe. The village included eight stone dwellings, arranged in pairs along a street, each with its own garden plot. | English Heritage | |
Dupath Well |
Wellhouse |
1510 |
Complete |
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A wellhouse constructed over a local spring. Built of Cornish granite ashlar, it was probably built by the Augustinian canons of the nearby priory of St Germans, to whom the site belonged. | English Heritage | |
Halliggye Fogou |
Fogou |
Iron Age |
Remains |
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Located on the Trelowarren estate near Helston, it consists of a long narrow tunnel leading to three sectioned chambers, and a window-like entrance which was dug in Victorian times by supposed treasure hunters. It is the largest and best-preserved of several mysterious underground tunnels associated with Cornish Iron Age settlements. | English Heritage | |
Hurlers Stone Circles |
Stone circle |
Neolithic |
Remains |
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A group of three stone circles. The site is half-a-mile west of the village of Minions on the eastern flank of Bodmin Moor. The circles have diameters of 35m, 42m and 33m. The two outer stone circles are circular, the middle and largest stone circle, however, is slightly elliptical. | English Heritage | |
King Doniert's Stone |
Stone Cross |
9th Century |
Remains |
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Consists of two pieces of a decorated 9th century cross. The inscription is believed to commemorate Dungarth, King of Cornwall who died around 875. The site also includes an underground passage and chamber. | English Heritage | |
Launceston Castle |
Castle |
11th Century |
Ruins |
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A Norman motte and bailey castle raised by Robert, Count of Mortain, half-brother of William the Conqueror. It became the administrative headquarters for the powerful Earls of Cornwall. The castle remained with little development, apart from an inner keep added in the 12th century. During the 13th century, Richard, Earl of Cornwall, a younger brother of Henry III began to rebuild the castle in stone. | English Heritage | |
Pendennis Castle |
Device fort |
1539 |
Partly complete |
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One of Henry VIII's Device Forts. Built to guard the entrance to the River Fal on its west bank, near Falmouth. St Mawes Castle is its opposite number on the east bank and they were built to defend Carrick Roads from the French and Spanish threats of future attack. The castle comprises a simple round tower and gate enclosed by a lower curtain wall. | English Heritage | |
Penhallam |
Manor House |
12th Century |
Ruins |
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The site of a former medieval manor house surrounded by a protective moat, abandoned during the mid-14th century. Penhallam is one of only four such moated medieval manor sites in Cornwall and it consists of a quadrangle of buildings around a central courtyard. | English Heritage | |
Restormel Castle |
Castle |
12th Century |
Ruins |
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Situated on the River Fowey near Lostwithiel, it is one of the four chief Norman castles of Cornwall. The castle is notable for its perfectly circular design. Although once a luxurious residence to the Earl of Cornwall, the castle became ruined in the years after. | English Heritage | |
St Breock Downs Monolith |
Monolith |
Neolithic |
Remains |
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A 5m high prehistoric standing stone located near St Breock. | English Heritage | |
St Catherine's Castle |
Device fort |
1530's |
Remains |
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A small fort commissioned by Henry VIII to protect Fowey Harbour. A twin battery of 64-pounder guns was added on a lower terrace in 1855. One emplacement was modified in the Second World War to mount a 4.7" naval gun, but was later removed to restore the Victorian gun races. | English Heritage | |
St Mawes Castle |
Device fort |
1540's |
Remains |
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St Mawes Castle and its larger sister castle, Pendennis, were built as part of a defensive chain of fortresses by Henry VIII to protect the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. | English Heritage | |
Tintagel Castle |
Castle |
13th Century |
Ruins |
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A medieval fortification located on the peninsula of Tintagel Island. It saw settlement during the Early Medieval period, when it was probably one of the seasonal residences of the regional king of Dumnonia. In the 13th century, during the Later Medieval period, after Cornwall had been subsumed into the kingdom of England, a castle was built on the site by Richard, Earl of Cornwall. | English Heritage | |
Tregiffian Burial Chamber |
Tomb |
Neolithic |
Remains |
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A Neolithic or early Bronze Age chambered tomb, comprising an entrance passage, lined with stone slabs, leading to a central chamber, located near Lamorna in west Cornwall. | English Heritage | |
Trethevy Quoit |
Tomb |
Neolithic |
Remains |
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A well-preserved megalithic tomb located near St Cleer. It is known locally as "the giant's house" and stands 2.7m high, and consists of five standing stones capped by a large slab. | English Heritage | |
Antony House |
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Boscastle |
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Carnewas & Bedruthan Steps |
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Cornish Mines & Engines |
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Cotehele |
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Glendurgan Garden |
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Godolphin Estate |
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Godrevy |
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Lanhydrock House |
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Lawrence House |
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Levant Mine & Beam Engine |
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St Anthony Head |
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National Trust |
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St Michael's Mount |
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National Trust |
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Tintagel Old Post Office |
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National Trust |
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Trelissick Garden |
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Trengwainton Garden |
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Trerice |
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Auckland Castle Deer House |
Country house |
1183 |
Complete |
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The official residence of the Bishop of Durham since 1832. However, it has been owned by the diocese for more than 800 years, as a hunting lodge for the Prince Bishops of Durham. It is more like a Gothic country house than a true castle. | English Heritage | |
Barnard Castle |
Castle |
1095 |
Ruins |
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A ruined medieval castle originally built on the site of an earlier defended position from around 1095 to 1125 by Guy de Balliol. In the 15th century the castle passed by marriage to the Neville family who improved the castle and the estate over the next two centuries. It was sold in 1626 to Henry Vane who dismantled much of the castle. | English Heritage | |
Bowes Castle |
Castle |
12th Century |
Ruins |
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Built in the corner of an old Roman fort guarding the Stainforth Pass through the Pennines by Alan, Count of Brittany, in the north-west corner of the site. | English Heritage | |
Derwentcote Steel Furnace |
Foundry |
1720 |
Complete |
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Located near Rowlands Gill, near Newcastle. It is an example of an early cementation furnace which produced high grade steel. | English Heritage | |
Egglestone Abbey |
Abbey |
12th Century |
Ruins |
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An abandoned Abbey on the eastern bank of the River Tees. Founded by the Premonstratensians, also known as the White Canons. They chose the site for the abbey was chosen because of its isolation, close proximity to a river and the supply of local stone for its construction. | English Heritage | |
Finchale Priory |
Priory |
1196 |
Ruins |
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A Benedictine priory, sited by the River Wear. Includes the remains of an early 12th-century stone chapel of St John the Baptist. The monastic complex was built in the latter half of the 13th century with alterations and additions continuing for the following three centuries. | English Heritage | |
Ormesby Hall |
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Audley End House |
Country house |
17th century |
Partly complete |
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An early 17th-century country house just outside Saffron Walden. It was once a palace in all but name and renowned as one of the finest Jacobean houses in England. It is now only one-third of its original size, but is still large. It remains the family seat of the Lords Braybrooke. | English Heritage | |
Hadleigh Castle |
Castle |
13th century |
Ruined |
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The ruins of a royal castle begun in about 1215, but extensively refortified by Edward III during the 14th century. The barbican and two drum towers – one later used by Georgian revenue men looking out for smugglers – are part of his building works during the 1360s. | English Heritage | |
Lexden Earthworks and Bluebottle Grove |
Ramparts |
Iron Age |
Remains |
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The banks and ditches of a series of late Iron Age defences protecting the western side of Camulodunum – pre-Roman Colchester. | English Heritage | |
Mistley Towers |
Church towers |
1776 |
Mostly complete |
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Two porticoed Classical towers, which stood at each end of a grandiose but highly unconventional Georgian church, designed by Robert Adam in 1776. | English Heritage | |
Prior's Hall Barn |
Barn |
15th century |
Complete |
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One of the finest surviving medieval barns in eastern England, with an aisled interior and crown post roof, the product of some 400 oaks. | English Heritage | |
St. Botolph's Priory |
Priory |
c. 1100 |
Ruins |
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The remains of one of the first Augustinian priories in England, founded about 1100. Built in flint and reused Roman brick, the church displays massive circular pillars and round arches and an elaborate west front. It was later damaged during the Civil War siege of 1648. | English Heritage | |
St John's Abbey Gate, Colchester |
Gatehouse |
c. 1400 |
Mostly complete |
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A pinnacled gatehouse, and all that remains of the Benedictine abbey of St John. Later part of the mansion of the Royalist Lucas family, the gatehouse was bombarded and stormed by Parliamentarian soldiers during the Civil War siege. | English Heritage | |
Tilbury Fort |
Device fort |
1539 |
Mostly complete |
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A fort built on the north bank of the River Thames to defend London from attack from the sea. Henry VIII built the first fort here, and Queen Elizabeth I rallied her army nearby to face the threat of the Armada. Work started on the current fort in 1670 but was still continuing in the 1680s. The 19th century saw extensive re-design and re-modelling. | English Heritage | |
Waltham Abbey Gatehouse and Bridge |
Gatehouse and bridge |
14th century |
Ruins |
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A 14th-century gatehouse belonging to the Augustinian abbey which was dissolved in 1540. Nearby is the 14th century Harold’s Bridge across the Cornmill Stream. | English Heritage | |
Bourne Mill (Essex) |
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Coggeshall Grange Barn |
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Hatfield Forest |
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Paycocke's |
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Rainham Hall |
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Rayleigh Mount |
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Belas Knap Long Burrow |
Tomb |
Neolithic |
Mostly complete |
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A neolithic chambered long barrow, situated on Cleeve Hill, near Cheltenham. It is of a type known as the Cotswold Severn Cairn, all of which have a similar trapezoid shape, and are found scattered along the River Severn. | English Heritage | |
Blackfriars, Gloucester |
Friary |
1239 |
Mostly complete |
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One of the most complete surviving Dominican friaries in England, later converted into a Tudor house and cloth factory. | English Heritage | |
Cirencester Amphitheatre |
Amphitheatre |
2nd century |
Remains |
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Earthwork remains of one of the largest Roman amphitheatres in Britain, built in the early 2nd century. It served the Roman city of Corinium Dobunnorum (now Cirencester), then second only in size and importance to London. | English Heritage | |
Great Witcombe Roman Villa |
Roman villa |
3rd century |
Remains |
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The remains of a large and luxurious villa located on a hillside at Great Witcombe, near Gloucester, with a bathhouse complex and possibly the shrine of a water spirit. | English Heritage | |
Greyfriars, Gloucester |
Friary church |
1518 |
Ruins |
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Remains of a Franciscan friary church rebuilt in about 1518 | English Heritage | |
Hailes Abbey |
Abbey |
1246 |
Ruins |
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A Cistercian abbey founded by the Earl of Cornwall in thanks for surviving a shipwreck. It held a renowned relic, "the Holy Blood of Hailes" – allegedly a phial of Christ’s own blood. After the dissolution in 1539 just a few of the cloister arches remained, together with the foundations of the church. | English Heritage | |
Kingswood Abbey Gatehouse |
Gatehouse |
early 16th century |
Partly complete |
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A 16th-century gatehouse, and one of the latest monastic buildings in England before the Dissolution | English Heritage | |
Notgrove Long Barrow |
Tomb |
Neolithic |
Parts remain |
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A Neolithic chambered tomb of the Cotswold Severn type situated on the crest of a ridge. The barrow was sealed in 1976 to prevent damage to the site. | English Heritage | |
Nympsfield Long Barrow |
Tomb |
Neolithic |
Remains |
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A chambered long barrow of the Cotswold Severn group overlooking the valley of the River Severn. Its internal burial chambers are uncovered for viewing. | English Heritage | |
Odda's Chapel |
Church |
1056 |
Mostly complete |
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One of the most complete surviving Saxon churches in England, built by Earl Odda, and rediscovered in 1865 subsumed into a farmhouse. | English Heritage | |
Offa's Dyke |
Defensive earthwork |
8th century |
Remains |
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A three-mile section of the great earthwork boundary dyke built along the Anglo-Welsh border by Offa, King of Mercia. This wooded stretch includes the Devil's Pulpit rock, with fine views of Tintern Abbey. | English Heritage | |
Over Bridge |
Bridge |
1825-30 |
Complete |
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A single-arch stone bridge spanning the River Severn near Gloucester. It links Over to Alney Island. It was built by the great engineer Thomas Telford. | English Heritage | |
St Briavels Castle |
Castle |
12th century |
Parts survive |
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A royal administrative centre for the Forest of Dean. The castle was a favourite hunting lodge of King John. The Keep and the East tower collapsed in the 18th century, by which time the Great Hall had also been demolished. The twin-towered gatehouse of this castle, built by Edward I, survives. Once a prison, it is now a youth hostel. | English Heritage | |
St Mary's Church, Kempley |
Church |
12th century |
Mostly complete |
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Norman church, displaying one of the most complete and well preserved sets of medieval wallpaintings in England, dating from the 12th and 14th centuries. | English Heritage | |
Uley Long Barrow |
Tomb |
Neolithic |
Mostly complete |
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Also known as Hetty Pegler's Tump. A partly reconstructed Neolithic chambered mound, 37 metres long, overlooking the Severn Valley. It contains a stone built central passage with two chambers on either side and another at the end. | English Heritage | |
Windmill Tump |
Tomb |
Neolithic |
Partly complete |
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Also known as Rodmarton Long Barrow, this is a Neolithic chambered tomb with at least three stone-lined chambers. At the eastern end of the mound there is a forecourt flanked by two projections and a so-called false entrance consisting of two standing stones and a stone lintel, blocked by a slab. | English Heritage | |
Ashleworth Tithe Barn |
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Chedworth Roman Villa |
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Dyrham Park |
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Hailes Abbey |
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Hidcote Manor Garden |
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Horton Court |
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National Trust |
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Little Fleece Bookshop |
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Lodge Park and Sherborne Estate |
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National Trust |
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Part of May Hill |
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Newark Park |
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Snowshill Manor |
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Westbury Court Garden |
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Woodchester Park |
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Bishop's Waltham Palace |
Palace or Mansion |
1135 |
Ruins |
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Built by the Bishop of Winchester, Henry of Blois, Bishop's Waltham Palace was later used by the Bishops of Winchester as they travelled, along with Farnham Castle and Wolvesey Castle. The palace was destroyed in 1644 after the English Civil War.
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Calshot Castle |
Device Fort |
1540 |
Mostly complete |
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One of Henry VIII's device forts, built on Calshot Spit to guard the entrance to Southampton Water. It was built as a circular blockhouse with a three storey central keep using stone from Beaulieu Abbey. The outer walls were lowered in 1774 and the gatehouse was rebuilt in order to provide more living space. The castle was in use until 1956. | English Heritage | |
Flowerdown Barrows |
Tombs |
Bronze Age |
Mostly complete |
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Three Bronze Age burial mounds in a much larger cemetery, including a well-preserved disc barrow which has been described as "the finest in Hampshire". | English Heritage | |
Fort Brockhurst |
Palmerston Fort |
1858–1863 |
Complete |
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A fort designed by William Crossman in the 19th century to protect Portsmouth. Its main purpose was to guard the approach from potential landing areas on the south Hampshire coast. The site is only occasionally open to the public. | English Heritage | |
Fort Cumberland |
Fort |
1748 |
Complete |
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A fort built by the Duke of Cumberland, replacing an earlier earthwork battery. The fort was of earthwork construction with a number of brick buildings. It was completely rebuilt in masonry from 1785–1812, and then refortified in the late 19th century. It remained in military ownership for much of the twentieth century. | English Heritage | |
Hurst Castle |
Device Fort |
1541–1544 |
Mostly complete |
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One of Henry VIII's Device Forts, built at the end of a long shingle beach at the west end of the Solent to guard the approaches to Southampton. It was modified throughout the 19th century, and two large wing batteries were built to house heavy guns. It was fortified again in the Second World War and then decommissioned. | English Heritage | |
King James's and Landport Gates, Portsmouth |
City gates |
1687 and 1760 |
Partly complete |
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Two ornate gateways which were originally access points to Portsmouth. King James's Gate was built in 1687, but has been moved twice, and is now part of the boundary of the United Services Ground. Landport Gate was built in 1760 as a main entry point to Portsmouth from the Dockyard. The gate is still in its original position. | English Heritage | |
Medieval Merchant's House, Southampton |
Town house |
1290 |
Partly complete |
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A restored building built in about 1290 by John Fortin, a prosperous merchant. The house survived many centuries of domestic and commercial use largely intact. German bomb damage in 1940 revealed the medieval interior of the house, and in the 1980s it was restored to resemble its initial appearance. | English Heritage | |
Netley Abbey |
Abbey |
1239 |
Ruins |
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An abbey founded as a house for Cistercian monks. It was closed by Henry VIII in 1536 and the building was converted into a mansion by William Paulet. The abbey was used as a country house until the beginning of the 18th century, after which it was abandoned and partially demolished. Subsequently the ruins became a tourist attraction, and provided inspiration to poets and artists of the Romantic movement. | English Heritage | |
Portchester Castle |
Roman fort and Castle |
3rd century and 11th century |
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A Roman fort built during the 3rd century to protect the southern coastline of Britain. A castle was built within its walls in the late 11th century. The monarchy controlled the castle for several centuries and it was a favoured hunting lodge of King John. Later in its history the castle was used as a prison. | English Heritage | |
Royal Garrison Church (Domus Dei), Portsmouth |
Hospice or Church |
1212 |
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An almshouse and hospice, known as the Domus Dei, established by Pierre des Roches, Bishop of Winchester. It was seized by King Henry VIII in 1540. Towards the end of the 17th century it fell into disrepair until it was restored in 1767 to become the Garrison church. The buildings of Domus Dei were partially destroyed in an attack by German bombers in 1941. | English Heritage | |
Silchester Roman City Walls and Amphitheatre |
Roman town and Amphitheatre |
1st century |
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A Roman town known as Calleva Atrebatum. It was the civitas capital of the Atrebates tribe. It was abandoned shortly after the end of the Roman era. The earthworks and the ruined city walls are still visible. The area inside the walls is now largely farmland. The remains of the Roman amphitheatre and situated outside the city walls, can be clearly seen. | English Heritage | |
The Grange, Northington |
Country House |
1804 |
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A 19th-century country house and landscape park. It was commissioned in 1804 by Henry Drummond who wanted his brick house transformed into a neoclassical ancient Greek temple. | English Heritage | |
Titchfield Abbey |
Abbey |
1222 |
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An abbey founded for Premonstratensian canons. It was closed in 1537 by Henry VIII and the building was converted into a mansion by Thomas Wriothesley, a powerful courtier. In 1781 the abbey was abandoned and partially demolished to create a romantic ruin. | English Heritage | |
Wolvesey Castle (Old Bishop's Palace), Winchester |
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A castle erected by the Bishop of Winchester, Henry of Blois. It was the scene for the Rout of Winchester in which the Empress Matilda assaulted the Bishop Henry in 1141. The castle was destroyed by Roundheads during the English Civil War in 1646. | English Heritage | |
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Mottisfont Abbey |
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Sandham Memorial Chapel |
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The Vyne |
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West Green House |
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Winchester City Mill |
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Arthur's Stone |
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A Neolithic chambered tomb situated on the ridge line of a hill overlooking both the Golden Valley and the Wye Valley. Today only the large stones of the inner chamber remain. | English Heritage | |
Edvin Loach Old Church |
Church |
11th century |
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The ruins of an 11th-century and later church built within the earthworks of a Norman motte and bailey castle. | English Heritage | |
Goodrich Castle |
Castle |
11th century |
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A now ruined Norman medieval castle to the north of the village of Goodrich. In the middle of the 12th century the original earth and wood castle was replaced with a stone keep, and was then expanded significantly during the late 13th century into a concentric structure combining living quarters with defences. | English Heritage | |
Longtown Castle |
Castle |
c. 1200 |
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A thick-walled round keep built c. 1200, characteristic of the Welsh Borders, on a large earthen mound within a stonewalled bailey. | English Heritage | |
Mortimer's Cross Water Mill |
Watermill |
18th century |
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An 18th-century water mill, situated on the River Lugg, in part working order. | English Heritage | |
Rotherwas Chapel |
Chapel |
14th century |
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The family chapel of the Roman Catholic Bodenham family rebuilt in the 1580s. The tower was rebuilt in the 18th century. The chapel contains Victorian interior decoration by the Pugins. | English Heritage | |
Wigmore Castle |
Castle |
11th century |
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Founded in 1067 by William Fitz Osbern, Wigmore Castle was a stronghold of the Mortimer family from about 1075 to 1425. It was later dismantled to prevent its use during the English Civil War. | English Heritage | |
Berrington Hall |
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Croft Castle |
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Cwmmau Farmhouse |
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Brockhampton Estate |
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The Weir Garden |
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Cleeve Abbey |
Abbey |
1198 |
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Located near the village of Washford, Cleeve Abbey was founded as a house for monks of the Cistercian order. It was closed in 1536 and the abbey was converted into a country house. | English Heritage | |
Dunster Butter Cross |
Standing cross |
15th century |
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A transplanted stump of a medieval stone cross, once a meeting place for butter-sellers. | English Heritage | |
Dunster Gallox Bridge |
Bridge |
15th century |
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An ancient stone bridge which once carried packhorses bringing fleeces to Dunster market. | English Heritage | |
Dunster Yarn Market |
Market hall |
17th century |
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A 17th-century timber-framed octagonal market hall in the village of Dunster. | English Heritage | |
Farleigh Hungerford Castle |
Castle |
14th century |
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Started in the 14th century, this fortified mansion was occupied for 300 years by the Hungerford family. Much of it was broken up for salvage in the 18th century. The castle chapel was repaired in 1779 and became a museum of curiosities, complete with the murals rediscovered on its walls in 1844. | English Heritage | |
Glastonbury Tribunal |
Town house |
15th century |
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A late 15th-century town house, once mistakenly identified as a courtroom of Glastonbury Abbey. It now houses both the Tourist Information Centre and the Glastonbury Lake Village Museum. | English Heritage | |
Meare Fish House |
Fish house |
14th century |
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The only surviving monastic fishery building in England, this housed the Abbot of Glastonbury's water bailiff and provided facilities for fish-salting and drying. | English Heritage | |
Muchelney Abbey |
Abbey |
12th century |
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Once a wealthy Benedictine house and the second oldest religious foundation in Somerset, but as part of the dissolution the abbey’s principal buildings were demolished by Henry VIII in 1538. The foundations of the abbey are laid out with parts of the cloister walk and thatched monks’ lavatory. The 16th century abbots’ house remains intact. | English Heritage | |
Nunney Castle |
Castle |
14th century |
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A moated castle built in the 1370s. Extensively modernised in the late 16th century, the castle was held for the King during the Civil War, but quickly fell to Parliamentarian cannon in 1645: not until Christmas Day 1910, however, did the gun-damaged portion of the wall finally collapse. | English Heritage | |
Sir Bevil Grenville's Monument |
Monument |
1720 |
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Erected on Lansdowne Hill, Bath, to commemorate the heroism of Sir Bevil Grenville and his Cornish pikemen at the Battle of Lansdowne in 1643, | English Heritage | |
Stanton Drew Circles and Cove |
Henge |
Neolithic |
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The three circles and a stone cove near the village of Stanton Drew, are the third largest collection of prehistoric standing stones in England. The Great Circle probably consisted of 30 stones, of which 27 survive today, and was surrounded by the ditch (now filled in) of a henge. It lies between two smaller circles, whilst to the west is a cove of three stones standing in the garden of a public house. | English Heritage | |
Stoney Littleton Long Barrow |
Tumulus |
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A Neolithic chambered tomb with multiple burial chambers, located near the village of Wellow, Somerset. It is an example of the Severn-Cotswold tomb. The barrow is about 30m in length and stands nearly 3m high. Internally it contains a gallery with three pairs of side chambers and an end chamber. | English Heritage | |
Barrington Court |
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Bath Assembly Rooms |
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Brean Down |
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Brean Down Fort |
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Cadbury Camp |
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Cheddar Gorge |
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Clevedon Court |
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Coleridge Cottage |
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Crook Peak to Shute Shelve Hill |
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Dolebury Warren |
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Dunster Castle |
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Dunster Working Watermill |
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Ebbor Gorge |
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Fyne Court |
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Glastonbury Tor |
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Holnicote Estate |
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King Alfred's Tower |
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King John's Hunting Lodge |
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Leigh Woods |
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Lytes Cary Manor |
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Montacute House |
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The Priest's House, Muchelney |
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Prior Park Landscape Garden |
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Sand Point |
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Solsbury Hill |
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Stembridge Tower Mill |
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Stoke sub Hamdon Priory |
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Tintinhull Garden |
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Treasurer's House |
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Tyntesfield |
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Walton and Ivythorn Hills |
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West Pennard Court Barn |
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Yarn Market, Dunster |
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