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History of Whalley Abbey Gatehouse
A brief history and description of the 14th-century gatehouse to Whalley Abbey, a Cistercian monastery founded beside the river Calder in 1296
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A history of Conisbrough Castle, begun in the 11th century after the Norman Conquest and one of South Yorkshire’s most striking landmarks.
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History of Sutton Valence Castle
A brief history and description of Sutton Valence Castle, which was probably built in the mid-12th century
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Begun in 1546–7, the final years of Henry VIII’s reign, Yarmouth was the last fortification built during a national programme of coastal defence that Henry had begun in 1539.
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In 1646 Goodrich Castle was the scene of one of the most desperate sieges of the English Civil War, which Parliament finally won with the aid of a huge mortar called Roaring Meg.
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History of Benwell Roman Temple
A history of Benwell Roman Temple, which lay within the civilian settlement outside the fort at Benwell on Hadrian’s Wall.
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Bolsover Castle Rated English Heritage's Spookiest Site by Staff
Bolsover Castle in Derbyshire has topped the list of English Heritage’s ten spookiest sites, as voted for by members of staff across the charity’s 400 plus castles and abbeys, historic houses and palaces.
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Hadrian's Wall Home To Families Not Just Military Men Says English Heritage
Previously unseen Roman cremation urns containing the remains of a young woman and a five year old - potentially mother and child - have gone on display at Birdoswald Roman Fort.
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Bauhaus visionaries honoured with English Heritage blue plaque
Walter Gropius (1883-1969), Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) and László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) – all designers and teachers at the Bauhaus, the vastly influential German art school – have been commemorated with an English Heritage blue plaque.
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Is this the earliest family photo taken at Stonehenge?
An 1875 photograph believed to be the earliest family snap taken at Stonehenge will go on display for the first time today, as part of a new exhibition chronicling 150 years of visits to the ancient monument.