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Places worth the detour in England

Detourmap lists 1,435 places in England, United Kingdom, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Stonehenge. 1,289 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Archaeological1,095 Nature340
Places
1,435
Oldest
Coldrum Long Barrow 4000 BC
Little known
1,289 of 1,435
Share of United Kingdom
46%

England 1,435

The 120 best known of 1,435. The other 1,315 are on the map and on the United Kingdom pages.

Elsewhere in United Kingdom

Scotland922 Wales241 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands72 Northern Ireland32

All 3,089 places worth the detour in United Kingdom →

Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in England?

Stonehenge, 19th century BC. Neolithic henge monument in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England, UK. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in England?

1,435: 1,095 archaeological & historic sites and 340 nature & landscapes. 1,289 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.

What is the oldest place on this map in England?

Coldrum Long Barrow, dated to 4000 BC. 237 of the 1,435 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as England here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in England if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. England is a first-level division of United Kingdom, the same level as a state or a province.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.