English Heritage & National Trust places in West Midlands

A red sandstone fortified manor house built for Edward I's Lord Chancellor, reached through a short wooded approach.

A Neolithic stone burial chamber above Herefordshire's Golden Valley, long associated with Arthurian legend.

Charles II's hiding place, with a timber-framed house, descendants of the Royal Oak and family gardens.

Cistercian abbey ruins beside the Severn, with a 12th-century church and a vaulted, tile-floored chapter house.

Welsh border castle ruins and earthworks above the River Clun.

Cistercian abbey ruins with tall church fragments, an infirmary and the remains of an abbot's lodging.

Edvin Loach Old Church stands beside its Victorian replacement within the earthworks of a Norman motte-and-bailey castle, bringing several layers of village history into one small churchyard.

Medieval Wye Valley fortress with a climbable keep, dark dungeon and Civil War siege displays.

Medieval abbey remains on private land, visible only from a nearby public footpath.

Extensive Augustinian abbey ruins with a richly carved chapter house and surviving medieval timber roof.

Guided tours of a preserved Birmingham silver factory, with workshops full of tools, dies and machinery.

Langley Chapel stands in a field near Acton Burnell, a modest sandstone building whose unusually complete furnishings reveal how worship changed after the Reformation.

Leigh Court Barn is a vast medieval timber building constructed for Pershore Abbey around 1325.

Augustinian abbey ruins with a carved processional doorway, surviving church and narrow spiral stair.

Medieval castle ruins beside an elaborate Elizabethan wing inspired by Italian architecture.

A large Iron Age hillfort whose multiple banks and ditches surround a 40-acre summit above Oswestry.

The pioneering iron-framed mill that helped shape modern skyscrapers, with interactive displays and guided tours.

Medieval fortified manor house with a great hall, timber-framed gatehouse and moat walk.

Remains of the Roman staging post of Letocetum, including an inn and bath house beside Watling Street.

Cluniac priory ruins with an ornate chapter house and a topiary-filled cloister garden.

The bath-house and civic remains of Roman Viroconium, with a museum and reconstructed Roman town house.

A restored 1874 circular tram depot in Birmingham, now a community hub and creative space.