English Heritage places in South East

The 1066 battlefield, ruined abbey and gatehouse, with an audio tour and family activities.

The Baroque shell of the Worsley family's grand Isle of Wight house, surrounded by landscaped grounds.

Sandstone abbey ruins and a medieval gatehouse set in landscaped grounds on the Kent-Sussex border.

The ruined Hampshire palace of the Bishops of Winchester, with a three-storey tower and great-hall windows.

A Norman castle tower and earthworks overlooking the Adur valley.

Henry VIII's artillery fort among the Rye Harbour grazing marshes, reached on foot and currently viewed from outside.

Twin-towered medieval gatehouse surrounded by Civil War earthworks on a hill above Newbury.

An early Norman enclosure castle with high curtain walls and the remains of its domestic hall.

Flowerdown Barrows preserves three Bronze Age burial mounds on the edge of Littleton, a short distance from Winchester.

Darwin's family home, with scientific displays, experimental gardens and the wooded Sandwalk.

The Knights Templar Church at Dover is a small set of medieval foundations on the Western Heights, with a distinctive circular nave joined to a rectangular eastern end.

Roman domestic remains in the Darent Valley, currently viewed through limited open-day access during conservation work.

Ruined 15th-century manor house beside the River Windrush, with a nearby dovecote.

A largely surviving medieval Cistercian abbey later converted into a Tudor house and Romantic ruin.

Roman coastal fortress enclosing a medieval castle, with Norman and Second World War stories.

Twin medieval church towers above Roman fort remains, beside the coastal paths of Reculver Country Park.

A complete circuit of Roman town walls and the remains of an amphitheatre at ancient Calleva Atrebatum.

Southwick Priory is the remnant of an Augustinian community that began inside Portchester Castle around 1128 before moving to Southwick in the middle of the 12th century.

The ruins and museum of Augustine's early monastery, part of Canterbury's World Heritage Site.

St Augustine's Cross is a Victorian monument on a quiet roadside near Cliffs End, commemorating the traditional landing place of Augustine and his companions in AD 597.

St Leonard's Tower rises above a sandstone ledge on the edge of West Malling, retaining almost the full height of an early Norman tower keep.

A Greek Revival mansion wrapped around an older house, seen from its grounds and monumental portico.

A medieval abbey transformed into a Tudor mansion, with a turreted gatehouse built across the church nave.

An Elizabethan artillery fort on the Medway, currently visited through pre-booked guided tours.

Britain's first Cistercian abbey, with vaulted ruins and an ancient yew beside the River Wey.

Major fortifications above Dover, with free exterior paths and selected guided access to the Drop Redoubt.

Ruins of the medieval Bishops of Winchester's palace beside the cathedral.

Henry VIII's compact harbour fort, with Tudor rooms, shipwreck displays and views across the Solent.