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A brief history of Wall Roman Site in Staffordshire, where the Imperial army established a series of forts. Later the site was developed into an official staging post and a small town grew up around it.
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Peacock Cottage, Kirby Hall, Northamptonshire
Spend your evenings exploring the ruins of this once great house and the recently restored Great Gardens.
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Sustainability and the Environment
Our outdoor spaces offer opportunities to learn about how sustainability and the natural environment have been understood in the past and how we care for the natural world today. Each has the power to inspire, engage and provide vital curriculum-linked experiences for your students.
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History of Cawfields Wall, Milecastle and Turret
This well-preserved length of Hadrian’s Wall, where it crosses Cawfields Crags, has an impressive milecastle at one end and the foundations of a turret at the other, near Caw Gap.
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History of Battle Abbey and Battlefield
The site of Battle Abbey was an empty hillside until 14 October 1066, when it became the location of one of the most important events in English history – the Battle of Hastings.
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History of Brodsworth Hall and Gardens
Built in the 1860s, Brodsworth is a remarkable mid-Victorian country house which survives with many of its original contents intact.
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History of Corbridge Roman Town
A history of Corbridge, a Roman town which developed after AD 160 around a base for legionary soldiers, and remained a vibrant urban centre until the last days of Roman Britain
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Among the greatest monasteries of the Welsh Marches, Wenlock Priory was refounded soon after the Norman Conquest on the site of a 7th-century double monastery, which housed both monks and nuns.
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History of Sewingshields Wall, Milecastle and Turrets
Sewingshields is near the eastern end of the spectacular central sector of Hadrian’s Wall, where it was built along the crest of a high rocky outcrop known as the Great Whin Sill. Across a distance of about a mile, several lengths of the Wall have been revealed and conserved here, together with a milecastle and two turrets.
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A history of Richmond Castle, one of the best-preserved Norman castles in England, later used as a WWI prison for conscientious objectors.