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Garrison Walls

Garrison Walls

You can enjoy a two-hour walk alongside the ramparts of these defensive walls and earthworks, dating from the 16th to 18th centuries.Other remains include Elizabethan Star Castle and defences from both World Wars…

Harry's Walls

Harry's Walls

An unfinished artillery fort, built above St Mary’s Pool harbour in 1552-53…

Innisidgen Lower and Upper Burial Chambers

Innisidgen Lower and Upper Burial Chambers

Two Bronze Age communal burial cairns of Scillonian type, with fine views. The upper cairn is the best preserved on the islands…

King Charles's Castle

King Charles's Castle

The ruins of a mid 16th century coastal artillery fort, later garrisoned - hence the name - by Civil War Royalists…

Old Blockhouse

Old Blockhouse

Substantial remains of a small 16th century gun tower protecting Old Grimsby harbour, vigorously defended during the Civil War…

Porth Hellick Down Burial Chamber

Porth Hellick Down Burial Chamber

Porth Hellick Down is an area of downland on the east side of the island of St Mary’s in the Isles of Scilly…

Bayham Old Abbey

Bayham Old Abbey

Bayham Old Abbey is an English Heritage property, situated near Lamberhurst, Kent, England. Founded c. 1207 through a combination of the failing Premonstratensian monasteries of Otham and Brockley, Bayham functioned as an abbey until its dissolution in the sixteenth century. The ruins were partially modified in the late eighteenth century, to provide a better landscape feature during landscaping of the new Bayham Abbey mansion park, and were donated to the state in 1961…

Deal Castle

Deal Castle

Deal Castle is located in Deal, Kent, England, between Walmer Castle and the now lost Sandown…

Dover Castle

Dover Castle

Dover Castle is a medieval castle in Dover, Kent,…

Dymchurch Martello Tower

Dymchurch Martello Tower

Fully restored and re-equipped with its cannon, this is one of 103 ingeniously-designed artillery towers, built from 1805 at vulnerable points around the south and east coasts to resist threatened Napoleonic invasion…