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The well-marked remains of a 2nd-century fort with large granaries, built under Hadrian's rule to guard the Roman road from Brougham to Ravenglass and act as a supply base.
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Arbor Low Stone Circle and Gib Hill Barrow
The region's most important prehistoric site, Arbor Low is a Neolithic henge monument atmospherically set in high moorland. A circle of some 50 white limestone slabs within an earthen bank and ditch.
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John Thelwall honoured with English Heritage blue plaque
John Thelwall (1764-1834), political orator, writer and elocutionist, has today (24 May) been commemorated with an English Heritage Blue Plaque.
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9500 people celebrate at Stonehenge for longest day of the year
Stonehenge once again attracted a large crowd to watch the sunrise on the longest day of the year
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Writer Martha Gellhorn Receives English Heritage Blue Plaque
The war correspondent and writer Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998), who reported on conflicts from the Spanish Civil War to the Vietnam War, has been commemorated with an English Heritage blue plaque.
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Martha Gellhorn Receives English Heritage Blue Plaque
The war correspondent and writer Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998), who reported on conflicts from the Spanish Civil War to the Vietnam War, has been commemorated with an English Heritage blue plaque today (3 September).
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John Osborne, the revolutionary post-war playwright, has today been awarded an English Heritage London Blue Plaque, exactly 65 years after his seminal play Look Back in Anger was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre on 8 May 1956. The plaque marks 53 Caithness Road in Hammersmith, the terraced red-brick property which was his London base at the time he wrote Look Back in Anger, arguably his best-known work and inspired by his life with his wife, actress Pamela Lane, in the very same building.
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English Heritage introduces ‘hour of contemplation’ at its former monasteries
English Heritage is launching an ‘hour of contemplation’ at its monasteries in a month-long trial this autumn. From 22 September until 22 October 2021, English Heritage will be encouraging visitors to turn off notifications on their phones, finish up their conversations and enjoy the final hour of public access to its abbeys and priories in contemplative quiet, enabling them to experience these spiritual buildings as they were intended.
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Record number of women celebrated with English Heritage Blue Plaques in 2024
For the first time in the history of the London Blue Plaques Scheme, which has been running for more than 150 years, more plaques will be unveiled to individual women in 2024 than in any previous year.