English Heritage places in South West

Abbotsbury Abbey Remains recalls a Benedictine monastery founded in 1044 by Orc, a member of King Cnut's household.

A Tudor gun fort on Dartmouth's historic quay, built as the harbour's last line of defence.

A medieval gatehouse and unfinished Seymour mansion above a wooded valley, with an audio tour and woodland paths.

An Iron Age hillfort among Devon woodland, with substantial earthworks, picnic space and spring bluebells.

An Iron Age hillfort, Neolithic barrow and the Westbury White Horse above wide Wiltshire views.

A mound-top Norman keep and rare riverside domestic building with a surviving circular chimney.

Roofed medieval monastic buildings, an angel-roofed refectory and an exceptional 13th-century tiled floor.

Cromwell's Castle guards the channel between Tresco and Bryher from a rocky projection on the shoreline.

Estuary fortress with medieval gun towers, coastal views and hands-on defensive displays.

Hungerford family castle ruins with a painted chapel, lead coffins and a Priest's House exhibition.

Coastal fortifications around St Mary's, with batteries, gateways and a walking circuit above Hugh Town.

Greyfriars preserves the roofless remains of a Franciscan friary church in the centre of Gloucester.

King Charles's Castle crowns a hillside on Tresco, looking across the approaches to New Grimsby harbour and the neighbouring islands.

Kingswood Abbey Gatehouse is the principal survivor of a Cistercian monastery founded in the 12th century and closed during the Dissolution in 1538.

Kirkham House preserves a late medieval home in the middle of modern Paignton, built of local stone for what was probably a prosperous merchant or landowning family.

A ruined Norman church enclosed by a much older Neolithic henge in open Dorset countryside.

Royal hunting-lodge ruins, substantial earthworks and a medieval village cross on the edge of Salisbury Plain.

Vast Iron Age ramparts and ditches on an exposed hill outside Dorchester.

Meare Fish House was built for Glastonbury Abbey in the 1330s beside a freshwater lake that has since been drained.

A moated medieval great tower with four round turrets, currently open for exterior viewing only.

Nympsfield Long Barrow stands on the Cotswold escarpment at Coaley Peak, where a Neolithic burial monument shares its setting with broad views across the Severn Valley.

A ruined medieval residence above the West Okement river, with woodland paths and views from the keep.

Six-sided medieval tower house with climbable ruins, a Georgian banqueting house and a Gothic grotto.

Penhallam Manor preserves the low foundations of a moated medieval house built by the de Cardinham family, with its main construction attributed to Andrew de Cardinham in the 13th century.

Henry VIII's harbour defence fort, with Tudor rooms, gun decks and a sheltered Governor's Garden.

A circular medieval keep with a battlement walk above the Fowey valley.

Ruins of a fortified bishop's palace and Civil War stronghold, with surviving chapels and a substantial gatehouse.

The vast prehistoric mound near Avebury, viewed from a dedicated area without access onto the hill.

Sir Bevil Grenville's Monument stands on Lansdown Hill near Bath, commemorating a Royalist commander and his Cornish pikemen at the Battle of Lansdown in 1643.

A small Tudor artillery fort above Fowey Harbour, reached by a steep woodland approach from Readymoney.

Henry VIII's cloverleaf coastal fortress, with historic cannon and views across Carrick Roads.

The Nine Stones form a small prehistoric circle in a wooded glade near Winterbourne Abbas, with unevenly sized standing stones arranged around a space only about eight metres across.

A circular Norman shell keep with views over Totnes and the Dart, a picnic bailey and a moat walk.

Concrete markers trace six ovals of a Neolithic timber monument discovered through aerial photography.