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Blog – Hen Domen: Hêndomen: Montgomery Castle: Old Montgomery Castle.
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Blog – Hen Domen: Hêndomen: Montgomery Castle: Old Montgomery Castle.

  Powys, Wales. OSGB – SO213980. Scheduled Monument.   Medieval timber motte and bailey castle. This site is the most systematically excavated timber castle site in Europe. Owing to it...
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Blog – Mersea Fort: Fort Mersea: Mersea Blockhouse: East Mersea Blockhouse: Mersea Tudor Blockhouse: Cudmore Grove Blockhouse.

  Mersea Island, Essex. OSGB – TM 07195 15166. Scheduled Monument.   A Henry VIII Device Fort. The fort/blockhouse is situated at the eastern end of Mersea Island in the...
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Blog – Moridunum Fort: Muridunum: Carmarthen: Carmarthen Roman Town: Caer Moridunum: Caer-foddin: Caer-fryddin.
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Blog – Moridunum Fort: Muridunum: Carmarthen: Carmarthen Roman Town: Caer Moridunum: Caer-foddin: Caer-fryddin.

Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire. OSGB – SN 41650 20330. Scheduled Monument.   Roman Auxiliary Fort. It is generally known that the name translates to Sea Fort, or Fort by The Sea. This...
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Blog – Ardotalia: Melandra: Melandra Castle.
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Blog – Ardotalia: Melandra: Melandra Castle.

Glossop, Derbyshire. OSGB – SK 00910 95050. Scheduled Monument. Scheduled Monument Number – 1004595.   Roman Fort. Possible Roman Marching Camp. Melandra is situated on a promontory and overlooks the...
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Blog – Reculver: Reculver Roman Fort: Regulbium.
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Blog – Reculver: Reculver Roman Fort: Regulbium.

Reculver, Kent. OSGB – TR 22778 69284. Scheduled Monument Monument Number – 1018784.   Roman fort. Saxon Shore Fort. Saxon Minster. The fort covered around 3.2 hectares. The walls measured...
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Blog – Middlewich Roman Fort: King Street Roman Fort: Salinae: Condate.
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Blog – Middlewich Roman Fort: King Street Roman Fort: Salinae: Condate.

Middlewich, Cheshire. OSGB – SJ 70221 66954. Scheduled Monument. Monument Number 12615.   Roman Auxiliary Fort. Occupied mid first to late second centuries AD. Situated just north of Middlewich, the...
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Blog – Kirkandrews Tower.
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Blog – Kirkandrews Tower.

Kirkandrews-on-Esk, Cumbria. OSGB – NY 38914 71928 Grade II Listed Building.   Tower House/Pele Tower. Situated in an area of the Borders known as the Disputed Land, also referred to...
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Blog – Embleton Tower: Embleton Pele Tower: The Old Vicarage: Turris de Emyldon.
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Blog – Embleton Tower: Embleton Pele Tower: The Old Vicarage: Turris de Emyldon.

Embleton, Northumberland. OSGB - NU 23053 22444. Grade I Listed Building.   Pele Tower. Vicar’s Pele. Embleton Tower is a three storey pele tower. It includes two vaulted rooms in...
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Blog – Mervinslaw Pele House: Mervinslaw Tower: Mervins Law: Zearwingnslawe: Zernwingslaw.
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Blog – Mervinslaw Pele House: Mervinslaw Tower: Mervins Law: Zearwingnslawe: Zernwingslaw.

  Southdean, Scottish Borders. OSGB – NT 67206 11745. Scheduled Monument.   Pele Tower. Sited above Old Jedworth town, the tower has extensive views in all directions. Mervinslaw Tower is...
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Blog – Oliver Castle: Oliver’s Castle: Olivercastle: Castrum Oliveri.
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Blog – Oliver Castle: Oliver’s Castle: Olivercastle: Castrum Oliveri.

Tweedsmuir, Peebles, Scotland.   Symon de Fresel de cele gent Le ot noire à rosettes de argent….     Pele Tower. Located on the Scottish Borders. The exact location of...
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Blog – The Mounts: Mounts Moat.
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Blog – The Mounts: Mounts Moat.

  Pachesham, Leatherhead, Surrey. OSGB – TQ 15442 57823 Scheduled Monument.   Medieval Moated Site. Mounts Moat is situated in the Manor of Pachesham, which originally included Leatherhead. The site...
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Blog – Tetchwick Moat: Tetchwick Farm Moat: Touching-Wyke: Tochingwwicke: Tochinguuiche: Tochingewicke: Togwiche: Totingewiche.
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Blog – Tetchwick Moat: Tetchwick Farm Moat: Touching-Wyke: Tochingwwicke: Tochinguuiche: Tochingewicke: Togwiche: Totingewiche.

  Ludgershall, Buckinghamshire. OSGB – SP 67909 18823.   Medieval moat. The moat measures 70 m by 60 m and originally stood in the Forest of Bernwood. Little is known...
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Blog – Stourpaine Moat: Stourpaine: Stures: Stour-Payne: Sture Payne.
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Blog – Stourpaine Moat: Stourpaine: Stures: Stour-Payne: Sture Payne.

  Stourpaine, Dorset. OSGB – ST 86040 09250 Scheduled Monument. Monument Number – 205404.   Medieval moated fortified manor house. Situated near Stourpaine church, near where the River Stour and...
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Blog – Slipton Lodge: Money Holes.
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Blog – Slipton Lodge: Money Holes.

  Lowick, Northamptonshire. OSGB – SP 95009 81236. Scheduled monument. Monument Number 1011037.   Medieval Moated site. Game Keepers Lodge. The site is of a trapezoid shape with the eastern...
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Blog – Scotney Old Castle: Scotney Castle: Echotny.
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Blog – Scotney Old Castle: Scotney Castle: Echotny.

  Lamberhurst, Kent. OSGB – TQ 68938 35229. Scheduled Monument. Grade I Listed Building.   Medieval moated castle. Quadrangular castle with round towers, of which only the southern one survives....
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Blog – Southsea Castle: South Sea Castle: Sousey Castle: Port Sea Castle: South Castle: Chaderton Castle.
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Blog – Southsea Castle: South Sea Castle: Sousey Castle: Port Sea Castle: South Castle: Chaderton Castle.

  Portsea Island, Portsmouth, Hampshire. OSGB – SZ 64332 98013. Scheduled Monument.   Device fort of Henry VIII built with the proceeds from the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Protects Portsmouth...
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Blog – Devil’s Point Blockhouse: Devil’s Point Castle: Devil’s Point Battery: Passage Point.
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Blog – Devil’s Point Blockhouse: Devil’s Point Castle: Devil’s Point Battery: Passage Point.

  Plymouth, Devon. OSGB – SX 4596 5333. Scheduled. Grade II listed Building.   Coastal defence battery. An octagonal tower with a single story, vaulted roof, and a parapet. Had...
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Blog – Camber Castle: Combre Castle: Chambre Castle: Camber-before-Rye: Winchelsea Castle.
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Blog – Camber Castle: Combre Castle: Chambre Castle: Camber-before-Rye: Winchelsea Castle.

  Kevill Point, Rye, East Sussex. OSGB – TQ 92186 18457. English Heritage. Grade I Listed Building.   A castle stands, enduring flaws, Gusts, tempests, storms, and time’s devouring jaws:...
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Blog – Quarr Abbey: Quarraria: Abbey of St. Mary in the Quarries: The Abbey of Our Lade and St. John.
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Blog – Quarr Abbey: Quarraria: Abbey of St. Mary in the Quarries: The Abbey of Our Lade and St. John.

  Ryde, Isle of Wight. OSGB – SZ 56213 92726. Scheduled Monument. Grade II Listed Building – Quarr Abbey Farm.   A new Abbey was built on the site early...
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Blog – Langdon Abbey: West Langdon Abbey: Langedune.
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Blog – Langdon Abbey: West Langdon Abbey: Langedune.

  West Langdon, Kent. Scheduled Monument. Grade II Listed Building. OSGB – TR 32634 46960.   The site is located in what was Bewesborough Hundred.     Langdon Abbey was...
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