Ancient & archaeological sites in United Kingdom
Detourmap maps 933 ancient & archaeological sites worth the detour in United Kingdom — ruins, stone circles, dolmens, pyramids, hillforts. The best known is Stonehenge. The 150 most notable are listed here; the rest are on the map. Each has a photo and a Wikipedia article.
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Stonehenge
Ancient & megalithic · 30th century BC · Iconic
Neolithic henge monument in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England, UK
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Antonine Wall
Ancient & megalithic · 2nd century · Renowned
Defensive fortification in Roman Britain
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Blenheim Palace
Ancient & megalithic · 18th century · Renowned
Country house near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, UK
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Skara Brae
Ancient & megalithic · 32nd century BC · Renowned
Neolithic archaeological site in Scotland
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St Augustine's Abbey
Ancient & megalithic · 6th century · Renowned
Monastery in Canterbury, Kent, England, UK
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Bletchley Park
Ancient & megalithic · 19th century · Notable
WWII code-breaking site and British country house, and museum, United Kingdom
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Osborne House
Ancient & megalithic · 19th century · Notable
Former royal residence in East Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, UK
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Fountains Abbey
Ancient & megalithic · 12th century · Notable
Ruined Cistercian abbey in Yorkshire, England, UK
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Offa's Dyke
Ancient & megalithic · Notable
Defensive earthworks on the border between Anglian (or 'English') Mercia and the Kingdom of Wales
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Maes Howe
Ancient & megalithic · Notable
Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave situated on Mainland Orkney, Scotland
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Ring of Brodgar
Ancient & megalithic · Notable
Neolithic henge and stone circle on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland
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Uffington White Horse
Ancient & megalithic · 10th century BC · Notable
Prehistoric carving in Uffington, England
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Pickford's House
Ancient & megalithic · 18th century · Notable
Historic house museum in Derby, United Kingdom
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Freud Museum London
Ancient & megalithic · 20th century · Notable
Historic house museum in London, England, United Kingdom
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Holyrood Abbey
Ancient & megalithic · 12th century · Notable
Monastery ruins in Holyrood, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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Hatfield House
Ancient & megalithic · 17th century · Notable
Country house in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK
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Kenwood House
Ancient & megalithic · 20th century · Notable
Art museum and historic house in Hampstead, London
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Cerne Abbas Giant
Ancient & megalithic · Notable
Hill figure near the village of Cerne Abbas in Dorset, England, UK
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Woburn Abbey
Ancient & megalithic · 12th century · Notable
Occupying the east of the village of Woburn, Bedfordshire, England, is a country house, the family seat of the Duke of Bedford
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Mansion House
Ancient & megalithic · 18th century · Notable
Official residence of the Lord Mayor of London
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Vindolanda
Ancient & megalithic · 1st century · Notable
Roman fort and archaeological site on Stanegate, England
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Bryn Celli Ddu
Ancient & megalithic · Notable
Prehistoric site on the Welsh island of Anglesey; Neolithic henge monument
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Maiden Castle
Ancient & megalithic · 6th century BC · Notable
Iron Age hill fort in Dorset, England, UK
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Tintern Abbey
Ancient & megalithic · 12th century · Notable
Grade I listed ruined abbey in Tintern, Monmouthshire, Wales
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Manchester Piccadilly station
Ancient & megalithic · 19th century · Notable
Railway station in Manchester, England, UK
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Althorp
Ancient & megalithic · 16th century · Notable
Stately home and estate in West Northamptonshire, England, UK
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Burghley House
Ancient & megalithic · Notable
Grand sixteenth-century country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, UK
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Inveraray Castle
Ancient & megalithic · 18th century · Notable
Country house near Inveraray in the county of Argyll, in western Scotland
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Harewood House
Ancient & megalithic · 18th century · Notable
Grade I listed historic house museum and Zoo in Harewood, United Kingdom
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Pentre Ifan
Ancient & megalithic · 35th century BC · Notable
Neolithic dolmen in the civil parish of Nevern, Pembrokeshire, Wales
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Navan Fort
Ancient & megalithic · Notable
Archaeological site in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK
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Waddesdon Manor
Ancient & megalithic · 19th century · Notable
Grade I listed country house in Buckinghamshire, England, UK
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Battle Abbey
Ancient & megalithic · 11th century · Notable
Benedictine abbey in Battle, East Sussex, England, UK
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Holkham Hall
Ancient & megalithic · 18th century · Notable
Large 18th-century Palladian country house in Norfolk, England, UK
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Reading Abbey
Ancient & megalithic · 12th century · Notable
Ruined abbey in the English town of Reading, founded in 1121 by King Henry I
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Fishbourne Roman Palace
Ancient & megalithic · Notable
Roman palace and museum near Chichester in Sussex, United Kingdom
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Belton House
Ancient & megalithic · 17th century · Notable
Country house museum in Belton near Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom
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Knap of Howar
Ancient & megalithic · 37th century BC · Notable
Oldest stone house in northwest Europe
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Sweet Track
Ancient & megalithic · 39th century BC · Notable
Ancient causeway in the Somerset Levels, England
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Jane Austen's House Museum
Ancient & megalithic · Notable
Historic house museum in East Hampshire, UK
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Woolsthorpe Manor
Ancient & megalithic · Notable
Country house in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England, UK
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Frogmore House
Ancient & megalithic · 17th century · Notable
Grade I listed historic house museum in Windsor, United Kingdom
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Strawberry Hill House
Ancient & megalithic · 18th century · Notable
Villa and house museum in Twickenham, London, United Kingdom
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Viroconium Cornoviorum
Ancient & megalithic · Notable
Roman town, near Wroxeter in modern-day Shropshire, England
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Mên-an-Tol
Ancient & megalithic · Notable
Standing stones near the Madron–Morvah road in Cornwall, England, UK
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Durrington Walls
Ancient & megalithic · Notable
The site of a large Neolithic settlement, village; also it enclosed several hedges;
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Red House
Ancient & megalithic · 19th century · Notable
Grade I listed historic house museum, former home of William Morris
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Chiswick House
Ancient & megalithic · 18th century · Notable
Neo-Palladian villa in the Chiswick district of London, England, UK
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Spencer House
Ancient & megalithic · Notable
Grade I listed historic house museum in City of Westminster, United Kingdom
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Charles Dickens Museum
Ancient & megalithic · 19th century · Notable
Author's house museum in London, United Kingdom
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Newstead Abbey
Ancient & megalithic · 12th century · Hidden gem
Historic house museum, home of Lord Byron, in Nottinghamshire, England, UK
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Kedleston Hall
Ancient & megalithic · 18th century · Hidden gem
English country house in Kedleston, Derbyshire, England, UK
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Hardwick Hall
Ancient & megalithic · 16th century · Hidden gem
Elizabethan country house in Derbyshire, England, UK
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Mendips, Menlove Avenue
Ancient & megalithic · Hidden gem
Childhood home of John Lennon in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
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Down House
Ancient & megalithic · Hidden gem
Former home of the English naturalist Charles Darwin and his family
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Rievaulx Abbey
Ancient & megalithic · 12th century · Hidden gem
Ruined medieval abbey in Yorkshire, England, UK
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Segedunum
Ancient & megalithic · Hidden gem
Roman fort in Wallsend, North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
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London Mithraeum
Ancient & megalithic · Hidden gem
Mithraeum discovered at Walbrook, London, United Kingdom
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Derby Racecourse Roman settlement
Ancient & megalithic · 2nd century · Hidden gem
Archaeological site in United Kingdom
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Lyme Park
Ancient & megalithic · Hidden gem
Grade II* listed country estate and park in Cheshire East, United Kingdom
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Cragside
Ancient & megalithic · Hidden gem
Country house near Rothbury in Northumberland, England, UK
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Montacute House
Ancient & megalithic · 16th century · Hidden gem
Late Elizabethan mansion with garden in Montacute, South Somerset, England, UK
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Knebworth House
Ancient & megalithic · Hidden gem
Country house in Knebworth, Hertfordshire, England, UK
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Smallest House in Great Britain
Ancient & megalithic · Hidden gem
House in Conwy, Wales; smallest inhabitable house in the UK
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Kingston Lacy
Ancient & megalithic · 17th century · Hidden gem
Country house with Bankes' Collections near Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England, UK
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Ham House
Ancient & megalithic · 17th century · Hidden gem
Historic house museum in Ham, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England, UK
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Audley End House
Ancient & megalithic · 17th century · Hidden gem
Country house in Saffron Walden, Essex, England, United Kingdom
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Handel Hendrix House
Ancient & megalithic · 21st century · Hidden gem
Museum in Mayfair, London, England, United Kingdom
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Blickling Hall
Ancient & megalithic · 17th century · Hidden gem
Country house in Norfolk, England, UK
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Kirkstall Abbey
Ancient & megalithic · 12th century · Hidden gem
Cistercian monastery in West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
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Richborough Roman Fort
Ancient & megalithic · Hidden gem
Roman fort at Richborough, Ash, United Kingdom
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Calleva Atrebatum
Ancient & megalithic · Hidden gem
Romano-British town at Silchester, United Kingdom
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Corinium Dobunnorum
Ancient & megalithic · Hidden gem
British settlement of the Roman Empire at Cirencester
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Barnhouse Settlement
Ancient & megalithic · Hidden gem
Archaeological site in Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK
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Petworth House
Ancient & megalithic · 17th century · Hidden gem
Historic estate museum in West Sussex, England, UK
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Etal Castle
Ancient & megalithic · Hidden gem
Grade I listed castle in Ford, Northumberland, England, UK
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Tomb of the Eagles
Ancient & megalithic · Hidden gem
Neolithic chambered tomb in Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK
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Beaghmore
Ancient & megalithic · Hidden gem
Complex of early Bronze Age megalithic features in Northern Ireland
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Hill Top Farm
Ancient & megalithic · Hidden gem
Writer's house museum in Hawkshead, Cumbria, England, UK
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Greenway
Ancient & megalithic · Hidden gem
Former house of Agatha Christie in Kingswear, Devon, England, UK
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Aston Hall
Ancient & megalithic · 17th century · Hidden gem
Jacobean house in Aston, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
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Little Solsbury Hill
Ancient & megalithic · Hidden gem
Hillfort in Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK
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Bewcastle Roman Fort
Ancient & megalithic · Hidden gem
Roman fort, built in 120 to the north of Hadrian's Wall
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Mamucium
Ancient & megalithic · Hidden gem
Former Roman fort in the Castlefield area of Manchester in North West England
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Coria
Ancient & megalithic · Hidden gem
Archaeological site in Corbridge, Northumberland, England, UK
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Aldborough Roman Site
Ancient & megalithic · Hidden gem
Roman fort and town at Aldborough in North Yorkshire, England
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Cladh Hallan
Ancient & megalithic · Hidden gem
Early neolithic and bronze age burial site at South Uist, Great Britain
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Basingwerk Abbey
Ancient & megalithic · 12th century · Hidden gem
Ruin of an abbey near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales
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Hailes Abbey
Ancient & megalithic · 13th century · Hidden gem
Abbey in the Cotswolds, United Kingdom
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Soho House
Ancient & megalithic · 20th century · Hidden gem
18th-century house in Handsworth, Birmingham, England. Former home of Matthew Boulton, now a museum
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West Wycombe Park House
Ancient & megalithic · Hidden gem
Country house in West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
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Sherborne Castle
Ancient & megalithic · Hidden gem
Grade I listed historic house museum in Sherborne, United Kingdom
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Lulworth Castle
Ancient & megalithic · 17th century · Hidden gem
Grade I listed historic house museum in Purbeck, Dorset, England, UK
