Colchester, England
Roman Theatre at Gosbecks
One of the largest known Roman theatres in Britain
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Colchester, England
One of the largest known Roman theatres in Britain
Colchester, England
Foundations of a temple where Celtic and Roman gods were worshipped together
West Mersea, England
A Tudor blockhouse with a long history of military use and rare surviving earthworks
Stratford Saint Mary, England
Situated on an ancient road to London, a medieval couple had a one-of-a-kind billboard made to pray for their souls in the afterlife
Burgh Castle, England
Some of Britain's best-preserved Roman walls, above the Waveney marshes
Geddington, England
A 13th-century stone bridge and ford across the River Ise
Eyam, England
Where a plague-quarantined village left vinegar-soaked coins for supplies
Matlock, England
A remnant of the steepest street tramway in the world
Matlock, England
A WW2 communications centre for Churchill's secret army
Ticknall, England
A historic industrial rail network that could include the oldest railway bridge in the world
Coggeshall, England
One of the oldest and largest timber-framed barns in Europe
Coggeshall, England
An ornately carved Tudor cloth merchant's house and restored garden
Braintree, England
Among Europe's oldest timber barns, built by the Knights Templar
Boxford, England
From uncovered medieval saint paintings that survived the Reformation to a memorial to a 113-year-old woman, this church contains fascinating secrets
Lavenham, England
A soaring wool-money church towering over a preserved medieval village
Upwell, England
These magnificent medieval carvings can be viewed up close in this amazing church
Downham Market, England
Downham Market, Norfolk, is called Gingerbread Town because of its distinctive architecture. Do not confuse it with Market Drayton in Shropshire, which is actually famous for its manufacturing of gingerbread
King's Lynn, England
An artistic reminder of the historic importance of this town's trade with Hanseatic partners from the Baltic and the North Sea
Lincoln, England
Known locally as the church that moved
Lincoln, England
A 1960s church with a hyperbolic paraboloid roof and an amazing stained glass window
Newark, England
This fishing lake has become something of a graveyard for redundant river barges, including a historic WW2 example made from concrete
Worksop, England
The legacy of a social experiment of the 1930s funded by Andrew Carnegie's Charity is a dispersed group of 40 houses of identical original design dotted across 400 acres of Derbyshire agricultural land
Nether Edge, England
A challenge course around 6 of the surviving sewer gas destructor lamps in south and west Sheffield
Bridgwater, England
A replica of the Neolithic wooden plankway once used to cross England's marshes