Cowside

Cowside is significant as an unaltered example of a late 17th/early 18th-century farmhouse of the North Yorkshire Dales. It is entirely typical of its area in many respects, but in a few it is unusual, not to say exceptional. The farmstead is set on the fellside above the young River Wharfe, just after it has been christened as such at the meeting of the becks at Beckermonds…

Crownhill Fort

As early as 1868, when construction was still in progress, Crownhill Fort was considered the most important of the forts built to defend the Plymouth naval base. Today it is equally important, though for reasons of history rather than defence. Unlike the Victorian defences of Portsmouth, which are well cared for and accessible to the public, many of the Plymouth forts have been damaged by conversion to a variety of private uses. Only Crownhill Fort has survived in anything like its original form…

Cul-na-Shee

Cul na Shee means ‘nook of peace’ in Gaelic. It was built on the grass behind a rocky beach in the 1920s by a schoolteacher, the daughter of a local minister, as a simple home for her retirement…

Culloden Tower

The Culloden Tower was built in 1746 or soon afterwards. The architect is thought to have been Daniel Garrett, and his patron was one of Richmond’s two Whig MPs, John Yorke. It was originally called the Cumberland Temple and its purpose was clear; to celebrate the victory of the Duke of Cumberland’s army over Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the Jacobite Young Pretender, at Culloden, near Inverness, in April that year…

The Panacea Museum

Moot Hall

John Bunyan Museum

Bromham Mill

St Paul’s Church

The Gatehouse