Monuments in England

The memorial to this brutal battle between the English and the Scots has a surprisingly humble origin.

A memorial marking the original departure point for the two ships carrying the early English settlers to the New World.

A memorial overlooking a busy roadway is linked with the story of a 17th-century noblewoman’s legal battle for her inheritance.

An inverted staircase above the entrance to the Bethnal Green Underground Station functions as a memorial for people who lost their lives during the worst civilian disaster in the U.K. during World War II.

A boat slowly sinking into the Essex mud flats bearing the names of the disappeared that haunt the Thames Estuary.

A 160-year-old tower built in honor of a scholar who was burned at the stake for translating the Bible.

A real Hawker Hunter jet in the middle of Basingstoke.

This mysterious pyramid is said to be part of a complex web of occult and Freemason symbols.

At the center of London’s oldest roundabout stands an obelisk that was erected in 1771, but spent several decades elsewhere.

A strange Georgian folly sits atop a lonely hill.

A small stone monument marks the spot on Stavely Road where the first of hundreds of missiles touched down during World War II.

This figure was cut into the hillside in 1937 to commemorate the coronation of King George VI.

One of the smaller hillside chalk horses was designed and cut in by a group of local students in 1804.

In 1999, a new equine figure was cut into this English hillside near the site where an older white horse had previously appeared.

A chalk horse cut into an English hillside in the 19th century.

This small, round building is the entrance to a bomb shelter built in anticipation of World War II.