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English Heritage looks after more than 400 historic sites across England — prehistoric monuments, Roman forts, medieval castles, abbeys, industrial…

Britain has around 4,000 castle sites. Some are complete and lived in, some are spectacular ruins, and a great many…

The Palace of Westminster stretches for nearly a thousand feet along the Thames, and it is the definitive image of…

Windsor Castle has been a royal home for nearly 1,000 years, which makes it the oldest continuously inhabited castle anywhere…

Stonehenge is a ring of enormous standing stones on Salisbury Plain, built and rebuilt over roughly 1,500 years by people…

The Tower of London is not a tower. It is a walled fortress of some twenty towers covering twelve acres,…

Buckingham Palace is the official London residence of the monarch, the backdrop to every royal photograph you have ever seen,…

Big Ben is the most photographed object in Britain and almost everybody calls it by the wrong name — including,…