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  • English Heritage Properties - free for members

    Open in WinterOverseas Visitors Pass 1066 Battle of Hastings, Abbey and Battlefield
    Everyone knows at least one date in English history - 1066 - the year the invading Normans defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings. In fact the conflict took place some seven miles north of Hastings, at a place then called Senlac. Here, William...
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    Ecclesiastical Building Battlefield Site
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    Apsley House - London
    Apsley House
    Apsley House, home of the first Duke of Wellington and his descendants, stands right in the heart of London at Hyde Park Corner. For over 200 years, this great metropolitan mansion has been known colloquially as 'Number 1 London', because it was...
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    Property Type:
    Historic House
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    Ashby de la Zouch Castle - Leicestershire
    Ashby de la Zouch Castle
    Ashby Castle forms the backdrop to the famous jousting scenes in Sir Walter Scott's classic novel of 1819, Ivanhoe. Now a ruin, the castle began as a manor house in the 12th century. It only achieved castle status in the 15th century, by which time the...
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    Property Type:
    Castle
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    Aydon Castle - Northumberland
    Aydon Castle
    One of the finest and most unaltered examples of a 13th-century English manor house, Aydon Castle stands in a secluded woodland setting. It was originally built as an undefended residence, but almost immediately fortified on the outbreak of...
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    Castle
  • Open in WinterOverseas Visitors Pass Barnard Castle
    Set on a high rock above the River Tees, imposing Barnard Castle was the stronghold of the Balliol family. Taking its name from Bernard de Balliol, who rebuilt it in the 12th century, it includes a fine great hall and a dominating round-towered...
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    Property Type:
    Castle
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    Beeston Castle - Cheshire
    Beeston Castle
    Standing majestically on a sheer rocky crag, Beeston has perhaps the most stunning views of any castle in England.
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    Property Type:
    Castle
  • Open in WinterOverseas Visitors Pass Belsay Hall, Castle and Gardens
    Belsay has something for everyone. A fine medieval castle, enlarged into a mansion in the 17th century; the imposing Greek Revival villa which was built later; and the outstanding, plant-rich gardens linking the two buildings. The whole ensemble is the...
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    Castle Historic House Gardens Park
  • Overseas Visitors Pass Berry Pomeroy Castle
    Tucked away in a steep wooded valley, Berry Pomeroy Castle is the perfect romantic ruin. Within the 15th-century defences of the Pomeroy family castle, still displaying a wall painting of the Three Kings in its gatehouse chamber, looms the dramatic...
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    Property Type:
    Castle
  • Overseas Visitors Pass Bishop's Waltham Palace
    The ruins of a medieval palace (together with later additions) used by the Bishops and senior clergy of Winchester as they travelled through their diocese. Winchester was the richest diocese in England, and its properties were grandiose and...
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    Bolsover Castle - Derbyshire
    Bolsover Castle
    'By an unlikely miracle,' wrote the architectural historian Mark Girouard,'the keep at Bolsover has survived into this century as an almost untouched expression in stone of the lost world of Elizabethan chivalry and romance.' Dominating the countryside...
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    Castle Historic House Gardens Available to Hire
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    Brougham Castle - Cumbria
    Brougham Castle
    Picturesque Brougham Castle was begun in the early 13th century by Robert de Vieuxpont, near the site of a Roman fort guarding the crossing of the River Eamont. His great keep largely survives, reinforced by an impressive double gatehouse and other...
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    Castle
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    Byland Abbey - North Yorkshire
    Byland Abbey
    Byland was one of the great Yorkshire Cistercian abbeys, housing at its zenith well over 200 monks and lay brothers. Much of its huge cathedralsized church survives, including the whole north side and the greater part of the 13th-century west front. The...
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    Property Type:
    Ecclesiastical Building
  • Calshot Castle - Hampshire
    Calshot Castle
    This artillery fort, built by Henry VIII to defend the sea passage to Southampton, was recently used as a Navy and RAF base.
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    Property Type:
    Castle
  • Camber Castle - East Sussex
    Camber Castle
    The ruins of an unusually unaltered artillery fort, built by Henry VIII to guard the port of Rye. There are monthly guided walks round Rye Harbour Nature Reserve, including the castle. Contact the Reserve Manager for further details.
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    No dogs allowed
    Property Type:
    Castle
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    Carisbrooke Castle - Isle of Wight
    Carisbrooke Castle
    Crowning a hilltop south of Newport, Carisbrooke Castle has been the key to the Isle of Wight's security for more than nine centuries. With its high Norman shellkeep at the core of everexpanded circuits of defences, Carisbrooke Castle is an exciting...
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    Property Type:
    Castle
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    Carlisle Castle - Cumbria
    Carlisle Castle
    Impressive and forbidding, Carlisle Castle is a formidable fortress, amply repaying exploration of its absorbing 900-year history. Long commanding the especially turbulent western end of the Anglo-Scottish border, Carlisle has witnessed many conflicts...
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    Property Type:
    Castle
  • Open in WinterOverseas Visitors Pass Castle Acre: Castle Acre Priory
    One of the largest and best preserved monastic sites in England, the foundation of Castle Acre Priory in about 1090 sprang directly from a visit by William de Warenne II and his wife Gundrada to the great French monastery of Cluny. So impressed were they...
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    Property Type:
    Ecclesiastical Building
  • Open in Winter Castle Rising Castle
    One of the largest, best preserved and most lavishly decorated keeps in England, surrounded by 20 acres of mighty earthworks. Begun in 1138 by William d'Albini for his new wife, the widow of Henry I, in the 14th century it became the luxurious...
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    Property Type:
    Castle
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    Conisbrough Castle - South Yorkshire
    Conisbrough Castle
    The white, cylindrical keep of this 12th-century castle is a spectacular structure. Built of magnesian limestone, it is the only example of its kind in England. Restored, with two new floors and a roof, it is a fine example of medieval architecture, and...
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    Property Type:
    Castle Gardens
  • Open in WinterOverseas Visitors Pass Dartmouth Castle
    This well-preserved and beautifully-sited castle juts out into the narrow entrance of the Dart estuary. Begun in the late 14th century, a defence called 'the Fortalice' was intended to protect the homes of Dartmouth merchants from shipborne attack. By...
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    Property Type:
    Castle Coast
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