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Blue Plaque for Silver Screen Icon Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn, the Oscar-winning star of Roman Holiday and one of the most enduring icons of film and fashion, has been honoured with an English Heritage blue plaque. The plaque marks 65 South Audley Street, Mayfair – where Hepburn lived in a flat with her mother from about 1949 to 1954, as she launched her stage and screen career.
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Over 300 of our treasured sites are free to enter. But free to enter doesn't mean free to maintain.
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Goods and skills must have been bartered or exchanged in prehistoric Britain from early times, but very little evidence has survived. The advent of farming in about 4000 BC brought with it the earliest surviving traded goods: stone-headed axes.
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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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History of Western Heights, Dover
A brief history and description of Western Heights, Dover, a vast fortification begun during the Napoleonic Wars and completed in the 1860s
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Audio Guide to Hound Tor Deserted Medieval Village
Join Helen Allen, Free Sites Manager at English Heritage, in conversation with EH Historian Nick Holder as they explore Hound Tor Deserted Medieval Village.
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Audio Guide to Upper Plym Valley
Join Helen Allen, Free Sites Manager at English Heritage, in conversation with EH Properties Curator Win Scutt as they explore the archaeological treasures of the Upper Plym Valley on Dartmoor.
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Blue plaque commemorating E. M. Forster at Arlington Park Mansions, Sutton Lane, Turnham Green, London W4 4HE, London Borough of Hounslow.
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There are three main points of interest: the Iron Age hillfort earthworks, the stronghold of the Norman castle on the motte and the remains of the cathedral within the north-west part of the hillfort.
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Easby Abbey stands on the east bank of the river Swale. The abbey buildings were hemmed in between the valley slope and the river, which influenced their unusual layout and form.