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Nympsfield Long Barrow

A large Neolithic burial mound with spectacular vistas over the Severn Valley. Its internal burial chambers are uncovered for viewing. Managed by Gloucestershire County Council…

Odda's Chapel

Odda’s Chapel is a surviving Saxon church, built by Earl Odda for the benefit of the soul of his brother Aelfric, who died on 22 December 1053. It was consecrated by Bishop Ealdred: an inscription dates the dedication to 12 April 1056. It was being used as a farmhouse, when in 1865 its historic significance was realised…

Offa's Dyke

Offa’s Dyke (Welsh: Clawdd Offa) is a massive linear earthwork, roughly following some of the current border between England and Wales. In places, it is up to 65 feet (20 m) wide (including its flanking ditch) and 8 feet (2.5 m) high. In the 8th century it formed some kind of delineation between the Anglian kingdom of Mercia and the Welsh kingdom of Powys. It has been the subject of considerable research in recent years, dispelling many of the earlier understandings…

Over Bridge

Over Bridge is a single span stone arch bridge spanning the West Channel of the River Severn near Gloucester. It links Over to Alney Island. Built by Thomas Telford between 1825 and 1828, it remained in use for traffic until 1975. The arch spans 150 feet (46 m), and was based on Jean-Rodolphe Perronet’s 1774 design for a bridge over the River Seine at Neuilly. It combines both an elliptical profile over most of the soffit with a segmental profile at its faces. This feature is known as a corne de vache…

St Briavel's Castle

St Briavels Castle is a moated Norman castle at St Briavels in the English county of Gloucestershire…

St Mary's Church

The church of St Mary’s has “the most complete set of Romanesque frescos in northern Europe” in its chancel which includes the Christ in Majesty painting created in about 1120, also a fresco of a wheel of life, showing the life cycle of man, painted on the walls of the nave. St Mary’s Church (Location: 51.9787°N 2.4823°W) is owned by English Heritage and maintained by The Friends of Kempley Churches…

Uley Long Barrow

Uley Bury is the long, flat-topped hill just outside Uley, Gloucestershire, England. It is an impressive multi-vallate, scarp-edge Iron Age hill fort dating from around 300 B.C. Standing some 750 feet (235 metres) above sea level it commands spectacular views over the Severn Vale…

Windmill Tump Long Barrow

A Neolithic chambered tomb with an enigmatic ‘false entrance’. Managed by Gloucestershire County Council…

Bishop's Waltham Palace

Bishop’s Waltham Palace is a moated Bishop’s Palace ruin in Bishop’s Waltham, Hampshire, England. It is a scheduled ancient…

Calshot Castle

Calshot Castle is one of Henry VIII’s device forts, built on Calshot Spit at the Solent near Fawley to guard the entrance to Southampton Water (grid reference SU488025). Also known as a Henrician Castle, Calshot was built as part of Henry’s chain of coastal defences to defend England’s coast from foreign invasion especially during the turbulent times after his break from the Roman Catholic Church…