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Gisborough Priory

Gisborough Priory was founded in 1119 by Robert Bruce, 1st Lord of Annandale, an ancestor to the Scottish king Robert the Bruce. It lies in the town of Guisborough, now in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. An Augustinian community, the priory was largely destroyed in the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the stones from it were used in other buildings in the town including Saint Nicholas’ Anglican church. The east end was left standing with its large window forming a distinctive arch shape, a…

Lyddington Bede House

Lyddington Bede House is a historic house in Rutland, England, owned and opened to the public by English Heritage. The existing Grade I listed building is a part of a former palace of the Bishops…

Abingdon County Hall Museum

This splendid 17th century baroque building housed a courtroom for Assizes, raised on arches over a market space. It now houses the Abingdon Museum. On…

Deddington Castle

Extensive…

Minster Lovall Hall and Dovecote

Minster Lovell is a village and civil parish on the…

North Hinksey Conduit House

Roofed…

North Leigh Roman Villa

The remains of a large, wellbuilt Roman courtyard villa. The most important feature…

Rollright Stones

The Rollright Stones are a complex of megalithic oolitic limestone monuments near the villages of Long Compton, Great Rollright and Little Rollright in England, lying across the present county border between the counties of Oxfordshire and Warwickshire (grid reference SP2930). The complex consists of three separate sites: The King’s Men, The King’s Stone and The Whispering Knights. According to local folklore the stones are the petrified remains of a king and his knights, however, each set of stones has been found to date from a different period.…

Uffington Castle

Uffington Castle is all that remains of an early Iron Age (with underlying Bronze Age) hill fort in Oxfordshire, England. It covers about 32,000 square metres and is surrounded by two earth banks separated by a ditch with an entrance in the eastern end. A second entrance in the western…

Wayland's Smithy

Wayland’s Smithy is a Neolithic long barrow and chamber tomb site located near the Uffington White Horse and Uffington…