National Trust places in Isle of Man

Hilltop near Castletown with an Iron Age fort, an early Christian keeill and the stone outline of a Viking ship burial excavated in 1945; open access, reached by a short grass footpath from Poyllvaaish Road.

Neolithic burial cairn on a hilltop above Maughold, found in 1926 beside Rhullick ny Quakeryn, the Isle of Man's only Quaker burial ground, with views over the coast to Cumbria.

Unexcavated flat-topped mound 20 m across with a wide ditch and outer banks beside Moaney Road in Santon, probably a medieval motte; open access through a green gate a few paces from the road.

Castle of the Height: a Neolithic chambered long cairn of about 3000 BC above Maughold, its tall forecourt and chamber stones standing in a field with views to North Barrule and Cumbria.

Medieval limestone fortress of the Kings and Lords of Mann above Castletown's market square and harbour, with a Victorian prison, wall walks and dressed rooms; the best-preserved castle in the Isle of Man.

Thatched crofting village above the Calf of Man, the oldest open-air folk museum in the British Isles, with costumed craft demonstrations, Loaghtan sheep and Manx cats.

The Gibb family's Victorian summer retreat and farm on the edge of Ramsey, kept as the sisters Alice and Janet left it, with a walled garden, threshing barn, duck pond and Loaghtan sheep.

Bronze Age burial mound on the shore between Castletown and Derbyhaven, crowned by the ruin of a post-medieval summerhouse and remembered as the execution place of Illiam Dhone in 1663; open access beside the road.

Manx National Heritage's Celtic, Viking and maritime heritage centre on Peel quayside, with the sea god Manannan as guide, the Odin's Raven replica longship, a recreated 1800s port and the Coffee Station cafe.

Neolithic chambered long cairn in two halves either side of Ballaragh Road in Laxey, with standing stones, forecourts and three surviving chambers on the East side; open access, roadside parking.

The Isle of Man's free national museum in Douglas: Viking silver, the National Art Gallery, Tynwald, the TT races, natural history and the National Library and Archives, reached by lift from Chester Street car park.

Open-fronted cross house in Maughold churchyard holding 38 early Christian and Viking carved stones, the largest parish collection on the Island, with four keeill ruins and the Manx parish cross in the church; open in daylight hours.

Neolithic chambered cairn near the summit of Meayll Hill above Cregneash, twelve burial cists in six pairs around a circle; open access all year, reached by a steep footpath from a lay-by on the Ballnahowe Road.

Captain George Quayle's 18th-century private dock, boathouse and ship's cabin room on Castletown harbour, home for 200 years to the schooner Peggy, with the Quayle Gallery and a sailmaker's loft.

The oldest roofed building in the Isle of Man, a 13th-century chapel beside Castletown harbour that became the town's grammar school and is now dressed as a Victorian schoolroom; free to enter on its open days.

Georgian home of the Manx parliament from 1821 to 1874, restored to its 1866 debating chamber, where visitors join a booked sitting led by the costumed Secretary of the House and vote on the Bills of the day.

Medieval fortress, cathedral ruins and a Viking-age round tower inside a 700 m curtain wall on St Patrick's Isle at Peel harbour; seasonal, open-air, reached up 24 historic steps from the causeway.

Ruins of the Cistercian abbey founded in 1134, with a visitor centre, medicinal gardens and picnic lawns beside the Silverburn at Ballasalla.

Small island at the mouth of Derbyhaven Bay, joined to Langness by a causeway, with the roofless St Michael's Chapel and the round Derby Fort of Henry VIII's time; open access all year, car park on the island.

Iron Age stone roundhouse and two Norse longhouses in a hillside field above Glen Vine, Marown, a farmstead that mixes two building traditions; open access all year, reached on foot from the A24.

Lady Isabella, the world's largest working water wheel, built in 1854 to drain the Laxey lead mines, with a viewing platform above the wheel, a mines trail and an old mine adit to enter.

The Island's southern tip, with a cafe and car park facing Kitterland and the Calf of Man, seals in the tide race, and the Chasms' cliff fissures a coastal walk away.