Mortimer’s Cross Water Mill is an 18th century watermill located on the River Lugg, 11 km (7 mi) northwest of Leominster, Herefordshire, England. It is owned by English Heritage and is in partial working order…
Rotherwas Chapel is a family chapel, belonging to the Bodenham family. The chapel contains structures from medieval, Elizabethan, Georgian and Victorian periods…
Wigmore Castle (O.S. Map 137, 407693) is a ruined castle which is barely visible from the village of Wigmore in the northwest region of Herefordshire, England…
Appuldurcombe House (also spelt Appledorecombe or Appledore Combe) is the shell of a large 18th-century baroque country house of the Worsley family. The house is situated near to Wroxall on the Isle of Wight…
Carisbrooke Castle is a historic motte-and-bailey castle located in the village of Carisbrooke, near Newport, Isle of Wight, England. Charles I was imprisoned at the castle in the months prior to his trial…
Osborne House is a former royal residence in East Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK. The house was built between 1845 and 1851 for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as a summer home and rural…
St. Catherine’s Oratory is a medieval lighthouse on St. Catherine’s Hill near the southern coast of the Isle of Wight. It was built by Lord of Chale Walter de Godeton (sometimes spelled "Goditon") as an act of penance for plundering wine from the wreck of St. Marie of Bayonne in Chale Bay on April 20, 1313 AD. The lighthouse tower is known locally as the "Pepperpot"…
Yarmouth Castle is a small off-square blockhouse built by Henry VIII in 1547, to guard Yarmouth, Isle of Wight harbour. It was built as part of Henry’s second device programme to fortify the English coast with a chain of coastal defences known as Device Forts or Henrician Castles. These were built to guard against the threat of foreign invasion. As it is a later fortification it did not have the earlier rounded or concentric shape but a square keep with angular bastions. It is now owned by English Heritage…
Bant’s Carn is a Scillonian entrance grave on the island of St Mary’s in the Isles of Scilly. A military battery built in 1905 also…
Standing on a rocky promontory guarding the lovely anchorage between Bryher and Tresco, this round tower is one of the few surviving Cromwellian fortifications in Britain, built after the conquest of the Royalist Scillies in 1651…
