1066 Battle of Hastings Abbey & Battlefield

The Battle of Hastings, which took place on 14 October 1066, was the decisive Norman victory in the Norman Conquest of England. It was fought between the Norman army of Duke William II of Normandy and the English army of King Harold II. The battle took place at Senlac Hill, approximately 6 miles…

Camber Castle

Camber Castle is one of Henry VIII’s Device Forts, also known as…

Pevensey Castle

Pevensey Castle is a medieval castle and former Roman fort at Pevensey in the English county of East Sussex. It is located at grid reference TQ645047.…

Belas Knap Long Barrow

Belas Knap is a neolithic long barrow, situated on Cleeve Hill, near Cheltenham and Winchcombe, in Gloucestershire, England. It is in the care of English Heritage. "Belas" is possibly derived from the Latin word bellus, ‘beautiful’, which could describe the hill or its view. "Knap" is derived from…

Blackfriars Priory

The Gloucester Blackfriars was founded in 1239 on a site that had once been part of a Norman castle. The Black Friars were of the Dominican order founded in 1217 by St Dominic to fight the twin evils of ‘heresy and doubt’. The friars acted as teachers and evangelists, and they would either travel around the countryside or live together in urban friaries. The monks that lived at Blackfriars had to take on traditional monastic vows of poverty, chastity and obedience; they would have attended church nine times a day unless excused. King Henry 3rd then became a major benefactor and patron of the friary and made the decision to grant timber for the roofs from the nearby Forest of Dean and royal forests in Shropshire and Dorset. Much of the original scissor-braced roof trusses and original timber for the…

Cirencester Amphitheatre

The earthwork remains of one of…

Great Witcombe Roman Villa

Great Witcombe Roman Villa was a villa built during the Roman occupation of Britain. It is located on a…

Greyfriars

Hailes Abbey

Kingswood Abbey Gatehouse

Kingswood Abbey was a…