Stoney Littleton Long Barrow is one of the country's finest accessible examples of a Neolithic chambered tomb.

Nestled on the shores of Lake Windermere in Cumbria, this extensive working mill produced literally millions of wooden bobbins vital to the Lancashire spinning and weaving industries. It is the only working bobbin mill left in the Lake District today.

The imposing shell of a grandiose Georgian mansion built in 1724-29, with an immensely columned exterior. Roofless since 1919, when its interiors were dismantled and some exported to America, there is still much to discover within, including traces of sumptuous plasterwork.

The ruins of this small Norman keep, built in the second half of the 12th century, are all that remains of what was once a strongly defended castle.

The remains of a grammar school for church choristers, founded in the mid-15th century by Ralph, Lord Cromwell.

St Mawes Castle is among the best-preserved of Henry VIII's coastal artillery fortresses, and the most elaborately decorated of them all.

The wonderfully complete 14th century brick-vaulted refectory undercroft of a small Augustinian priory.

The monastery at Jarrow was one of Europe's most influential centres of learning and culture in the 7th century.

This fascinating tourist attraction is home to over 2,800 burials dating from Anglo-Saxon to Victorian times.

Although this is the third largest complex of prehistoric standing stones in England, the three circles and three-stone ‘cove’ of Stanton Drew in Somerset are surprisingly little known.