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  • English Heritage Properties - free for members

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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
  • Overseas Visitors Pass Bayham Old Abbey
    The impressive ruins of an abbey of Premonstratensian 'white canons', on the Kent-Sussex border. They include much of the 13th to 15th-century church, the chapter house, and a picturesque 14th-century gatehouse. Now set in a landscape designed by...
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    Parking Suitable for people with disabilities Baby changing facilities Guidebooks Dogs allowed on leads Shop Picnic area
    Property Type:
    Ecclesiastical Building
  • 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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    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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    Property Type:
    Castle
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    Buildwas Abbey - Shropshire
    Buildwas Abbey
    Impressive ruins of a Cistercian abbey, including its unusually unaltered 12th-century church, beautiful vaulted and tile-floored chapter house, and recently re-opened crypt chapel. In a wooded Severn-side setting, not far from the Iron Bridge and...
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    Property Type:
    Ecclesiastical Building
  • 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
  • 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
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    Dunstanburgh Castle - Northumberland
    Dunstanburgh Castle
    Dramatic Dunstanburgh Castle was built at a time when relations between King Edward II and his most powerful baron, Earl Thomas of Lancaster, had become openly hostile. Lancaster began the fortress in 1313, and the latest archaeological research carried...
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    Guidebooks Dogs allowed on leads Picnic area Hazardous
    Property Type:
    Castle
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    Furness Abbey - Cumbria
    Furness Abbey
    The impressive remains of an abbey founded by Stephen, later King of England, including much of the east end and west tower of the church, the ornately decorated chapter house and the cloister buildings. Originally of the Savigniac order, it passed to...
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    Property Type:
    Ecclesiastical Building
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    Gisborough Priory - Redcar and Cleveland
    Gisborough Priory
    The ruins of an Augustinian priory founded by the Bruce family, afterwards Kings of Scotland. They are dominated by the dramatic skeleton of the 14th-century church's east end.
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    Picnic area
    Property Type:
    Ecclesiastical Building
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    Helmsley Castle - North Yorkshire
    Helmsley Castle
    Surrounded by spectacular banks and ditches, the great medieval castle's impressive ruins stand beside the attractive market town of Helmsley. The fortress was probably begun after 1120 by Walter Espec - 'Walter the Woodpecker'. Renowned for piety as...
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    Property Type:
    Castle
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    Kenilworth Castle - Warwickshire
    Kenilworth Castle
    Among the largest and most impressive historic sites in England, Kenilworth Castle is a vast complex of ruined fortifications and palatial apartments spanning over five centuries. With English Heritage's re-opening of Leicester's Gatehouse and two...
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    Property Type:
    Castle Gardens
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    Kirkham Priory - North Yorkshire
    Kirkham Priory
    The riverside ruins of an Augustinian priory, picturesquely set in the beautiful Derwent valley near the Yorkshire Wolds. Features include a gatehouse bedecked with the heraldry of the De Roos family of Helmsley Castle, and a handsome set of...
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    Property Type:
    Ecclesiastical Building
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    Lindisfarne Priory - Northumberland
    Lindisfarne Priory
    Lindisfarne Priory on Holy Island was one of the most important centres of early Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England. It is still a place of pilgrimage today, the dramatic approach across the causeway adding to the fascination of the site. St Aidan...
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    Museum Guidebooks Dogs allowed on leads Shop Events Hazardous Family Learning
    Property Type:
    Ecclesiastical Building Coast Film or TV Location
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    Mount Grace Priory - North Yorkshire
    Mount Grace Priory
    Set amid woodland below the escarpment of the North York Moors and the Cleveland Way National Trail, Mount Grace is a monastic ruin of an unusual kind. It is the best-preserved of the ten British 'charterhouses', whose Carthusian monks lived as hermits...
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    Property Type:
    Ecclesiastical Building Gardens Film or TV Location
  • Overseas Visitors Pass Okehampton Castle
    The remains of the largest castle in Devon, in an outstandingly picturesque setting on a wooded spur above the rushing River Okement. Begun soon after the Norman Conquest as a motte and bailey castle with a stone keep, it was converted into a...
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    Property Type:
    Castle
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    Old Wardour Castle - Wiltshire
    Old Wardour Castle
    Beautifully sited beside a lake, Old Wardour Castle was built in the late 14th century by John Lord Lovel as a lightly fortified but showy and luxurious residence. A hexagonal tower house ranged round a central courtyard, its form is very unusual in...
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    Parking Suitable for people with disabilities Baby changing facilities Dogs allowed on leads Audio tours (included in admission price) Picnic area Events Civil Weddings Hazardous Family Learning
    Property Type:
    Castle Film or TV Location
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    Rievaulx Abbey - North Yorkshire
    Rievaulx Abbey
    'Everywhere peace, everywhere serenity, and a marvellous freedom from the tumult of the world.' Written over eight centuries ago by the monastery's third abbot, St Aelred, these words still describe Rievaulx today. Set in a beautiful and tranquil valley,...
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    Parking Suitable for people with disabilities Male Toilets Female Toilets Baby changing facilities Exhibition Museum Education Guidebooks Dogs allowed on leads Audio tours (included in admission price) Shop Picnic area Events Holiday Cottages Family Learning
    Property Type:
    Ecclesiastical Building
  • Thornton Abbey and Gatehouse
    The enormous and ornate fortified gatehouse of Thornton Abbey is the largest and among the finest of all English monastic gatehouses. An early example of brick building in England, it proclaimed the wool tradebased prosperity of one of the...
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    Property Type:
    Ecclesiastical Building
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