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New additions and updates to the UK Heritage site during 2008
22/03/08 Blackberry Camp An Iron Age hill fort defended by a single bank and ditch forming a D-shape enclosure
03/03/08 Pillboxes Added the photo for the Pillbox on the South Devon coast near Bramscombe
New additions and updates to the UK Heritage site during 2007
22/12/07 Caerlaverock Castle A revisit to one of the finest examples of early classical Renaissance building in Scotland and the chief seat of the Maxwell family. Caerlaverock Castle stands on the edge of Scotland, where the swift-flowing River Nith enters the salt marshes of the Solway Firth.
21/12/07 St Andrews Castle The bishops castle of St Andrews was a place, a workplace, a prison and a fortress. The first castle was destroyed during the Wars of Independence and what is seen today, dates mainly from 1400 to 1560.
22/09/07 Dunster Castle Dunster has developed over the past thousand years, from Norman fortress to Victorian country house. Dunster has been home to eighteen generations of the Lutterell family since 1405.
22/09/07 Knightshayes Court Structurally complete by 1874, Knightshayes Court is one of several hundred large and luxurious country houses built by the Victorians during the boom years of agricultural and industrial development.
22/09/07 Cleve Abbey Founded in 1198 by William de Roumare, Earl of Lincoln, Cleeve Abbey was for over three hundred years home to a community of Cistercian monks.
25/08/07 Attingham Park This 18th-century mansion with Regency interiors & deer park, landscaped by Humphrey Repton, was the ancestral home of the Berwick family for over 150 years.
14/05/07 Plas Newydd An elegant 18th century Gothick house, set above the Menai Strait and in view of the mountains of Snowdonia
17/03/07 Chatsworth House Pictures taken 17/03/07 added to site, correcting an absence of pictures since the page was published.
     
New additions and updates to the UK Heritage site during 2006
06/08/06 Search New Site Search Engine added to fix issues wih previous version
01/07/06 Peveril Castle New photos and a picture of a model of the castle in its heyday added
27/05/06 Sudbury Hall Built in the reign of Charles II and was fashioned in an older style than other new properties of the period
02/04/06 UK Heritage UK Heritage moved to new web servers at ukheritage.net
New additions and updates to the UK Heritage site during 2005
  UK Heritage Busy working on our day jobs and unfortunately our site lies dormant for the year.
New additions and updates to the UK Heritage site during 2004
31/07/04 Conway Castle Built between 1283 and 1287, Conway was one of a series of castles established in North Wales by King Edward I to secure the newly conquered principality.
31/07/04 Blickling Hall Sir Henry Hobart commenced the build of Blickling Hall in 1619 on the estate said to be the birth place of Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn.
04/04/04 William Kent Born in Bridlington, Yorkshire, in 1674, William Kent was an artist and architect who once said "all gardening is a landscape painting". Kent is seen as “the father of modern gardening”.
27/03/04 Norwich Cathedral Norwich cathedral was founded in 1096 by Bishop Herbert de Losinga, as part of a Benedictine monastery. 
27/03/04 Baconsthorpe Castle Baconsthorpe Castle is a 15th century north Norfolk styled manor house.
27/03/04 Norwich Castle

A Norman keep in the centre of Norwich, containing a magnificent museum and art gallery.
08/02/04 Coventry Cathedral St Michael's, Coventry's cathedral since 1918, was built between 1375 to 1500 and redeveloped in 1951-62 following the bombing of Coventry in 1940. 
New additions and updates to the UK Heritage site during 2003
24/07/03 Kedleston Hall Stunning Neo-classical mansion in Derbyshire, designed by Robert Adam.
06/07/03 Guillaume-le-Conquérant The birth place of William the Conqueror 
16/05/03 Chirk Castle Built  by Roger Mortimer, in the reign of Edward I in 1282.
25/04/03 Powis Castle Medieval Welsh Castle with magnificent gardens. 
19/01/03 Sandbach Crosses 9th century Saxon crosses standing within the square of an historic Cheshire town
New additions and updates to the UK Heritage site during 2002
20/12/02 Seabegs Fortlet A  Roman fortlet along the Antonine Wall in Scotland
20/12/02 Antonine Wall The Antonine Wall in Scotland was the northernmost frontier of the Roman empire, built around 142 AD
08/12/02 Wallington Eighteenth century house, sitting on top of the remains of an earlier castle, perhaps Norman in origin.
22/10/02 Little Moreton Hall Fifteenth and sixteenth century moated black and white Cheshire manor house.
29/04/02 Sizergh Castle Medieval Great Hall developed into Elizabethan residence of substance.
13/04/02 Dunham Massey A 17th century house with moat, set in a walled deer park on the site of an earlier Manor House, possibly a castle.
30/03/02 Castle Howard Magnificent Baroque country house designed by Vanbrugh.
17/02/02 Cardiff Castle Right in the busy centre of  Cardiff, sits a castle with high motte, topped by a stone tower keep, rebuilt directly onto the remains of a Roman fort.
New additions and updates to the UK Heritage site during 2001
14/12/01 Chepstow Castle The oldest datable secular stone building in Britain.
02/11/01 Adel Church Adel Church is built in the Norman style, c.1150, on the foundations of an earlier Saxon church.
12/10/01 Lochleven Castle Early Tower House and later buildings on an island on Loch Leven.
08/10/01 Fort George Georgian fort built to counter the Jacobite threat in the Highlands of Scotland.
05/10/01 Kildrummy Castle The site and construction of Kildrummy castle have their roots in the twelfth century, a time when the monarchy of Scotland under David I, Malcolm 'the Maiden' and William 'the Lion', was gradually consolidating its power over the aristocracy and clans of the north.
05/10/01 Huntly Castle Robert Bruce was taken ill at Inverurie and brought here in 1307
05/10/01 Elgin Cathedral During the Wars of Independence of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, Elgin seems to have been spared the worst of Edward I, II and III's destructive actions.
05/10/01 The Lake Hotel The heart of this hotel was the former manse, possibly 18th century. The hotel dates from 1854 and has views across the lake to the Inchmahome Priory, a small Augustinian Priory founded by Walter Comyn, earl of Menteith in around 1238.
03/09/01 Castle Acre Priory Substantial remains of the eleventh century Cluniac Priory founded by the builder of the nearby castle.  
01/09/01 Catton Old Hall Catton Old Hall was built by William Bussey in 1632 and is now a hotel and the family home of Roger & Anthea Cawdron.. 
31/08/01 Castle Acre Castle The small village of Castle Acre is bounded to the west by the great Cluniac Priory and to the east by the castle. 
19/07/01 Roman Glossary What was the Romans' under floor heating system called? Find out this and more in our Roman Glossary.
08/07/01 Chateau d'Etoges

Not a UK property but an impressive fortified moated house similar to those of Baddesley Clinton,  Ightham Mote 

01/06/01 Oxburgh Hall Oxburgh Hall was built during the final quarter of the fifteenth century, when the Wars of the Roses were at their height.
20/05/01 Kirkstall Abbey Kirkstall Abbey is one of the most important buildings historically in Leeds. Built between 1152 and 1182 on the northern bank of the River Aire, the Abbey was home to a community of Cistercian monks and lay brothers.
11/05/01 Selby Abbey Selby Abbey dominates the town centre of Selby today, much as it must have done for the last nine hundred years.
03/05/01 UK Heritage UK Heritage web site has moved to new location. The site has out grown its old home and has moved to www.microart-ukheritage.co.uk. The site at www./heritage will be mirrored for as long as possible (now closed).
03/05/01 Links Our related/links page has been updated with a new section entitled UK Directories - Places to visit, things to do, guides and tourist information. The first addition to this section is The Cumbrian Directory, a useful independent guide to the Lake District.
12/04/01 Durham Cathedral As you approach Durham from the south, the Cathedral and Castle dominate the city to such a degree that it is easy to remember the pre-eminence that these twin displays of wealth and power of previous ages had.
17/03/01 Porchester Castle Portchester Castle is a varied and interesting site, comprising a Roman Fort, later adapted into a Norman Castle, which in turn became a medieval Royal palace. 
27/02/01 Winchester In 635AD, Cynegils, King of the West Saxons, was baptised by St. Birinus, who was spreading the Christian message to parts of Britain which had not been reached by St. Augustine's first mission.
15/02/01

The UK Heritage web site has been selected as a featured site in Lightspan's StudyWeb® as one of the best educational resources on the Web by the Lightspan researchers. 
12/02/01 Dove Cottage The home of William Wordsworth 1799-1808
Berwick Castle Once one of the most important of border castles, very little now remains of the medieval castle fought over by successive Scottish and English kings at Berwick. 
New additions and updates to the UK Heritage site during 2000
04/10/00 Ripley Castle Ripley Castle location corrected to NORTH Yorkshire, from West Yorkshire. Thank you Mrs E. Molloy for bringing this error to our attention.
28/10/00 Richborough Richborough, once the Roman gateway and port to England, is now a curious and wind-swept land-locked area of stone and earth-works.
Berwick Upon Tweed Fortifications The substantially Elizabethan military fortifications around the old town of Berwick-Upon-Tweed are a fascinating way of exploring the troubled and intricate history of this border town.
Melrose Abbey The history of Melrose Abbey begins not in the location of the present abbey ruins, but at Old Melrose, east of the town and in a loop of the River Tweed, like its neighbour at Dryburgh. St. Aidan of Lindisfarne established a monastery here around 650. 
21/10/00 Windsor Castle As one of the official residences of the reigning monarch, Windsor castle dominates the surrounding town not only by sheer bulk, but also by the international tourists who are drawn here.
15/10/00 Canterbury Cathedral On the site of Canterbury Cathedral, Christian worship has flourished since Roman times.
St Augustine's Abbey Although little remains of the ancient and once prestigious Abbey, the site is still an interesting place to visit.
08/10/00 Deal Castle Deal castle is one of a lengthy chain of forts built in the early part of the sixteenth century by Henry VIII.
Walmer Castle Like its sister castle a couple of miles down the coast at Deal, Walmer was built by Henry VIII between 1539 and 1540 as part of his coastal defense system.
Dover Castle The wide-ranging and imposing site of Dover Castle has been used in various forms as a defensive stronghold for over two thousand years.
02/09/00 Paxton House Paxton House was built in two phases, the first part is a restrained Palladian Mansion by Adam between 1758 and 1762 and the second is a Regency extension built by Robert Reid.
Smailholm Tower The Pringle family, who built Smailholm Tower in the mid-fifteenth century, had at one time been squires of the Earls of Black Douglas.
Jervaulx Abbey Jervaulx was founded by the first Abbot, John de Kinstan in 1156 for the Cistercian order. 
Treasurer's House The Treasurer's House is situated right in the centre of York, under the shadow of the great Minster
12/08/00 Lindisfarne Priory In 635, St. Aidan was called by King Oswald of Northumbria to Christianise his kingdom. Aidan settled on the island of Lindisfarne, close to the royal protection at nearby Bamburgh and established a spartan monastery, probably not unlike his former homes in Ireland and on the Isle of Iona.
Lindisfarne Castle Like St. Michael's Mount in Cornwall, Lindisfarne or Holy Island, is approached over a causeway at low tide. Although much further from the mainland than St. Michael's Mount, it shares the mystery and rhythm of that place and it was also chosen as a religious site.
Dirleton Castle One of the less well-known of castles, Dirleton was an agreeable surprise. Virtually deserted on an early Summer afternoon, enough of the fabric remains for a satisfyingly thorough exploration through the centuries of use and abuse at Dirleton.
Tantallon Castle  Like Hermitage Castle in Liddesdale near the English border, Tantallon was a Douglas stronghold built mainly in the mid fourteenth century.
11/07/00 Hermitage Castle Hermitage Castle is one of the most remote that we have visited. On the day we arrived, the sun was shining brightly and the birds were singing, which meant we had an unexpectedly cheerful view of these huge ruins.
Jedburgh Abbey A majestic building founded by David I in 1138 for Augustinian canons, right at the edge of his frontier with England
09/07/00 All Redesigned site to improve performance and navigation.
07/06/00 Brougham Castle Information added
Brough Castle Information added
29/05/00 Lanercost Priory New photos added
Brougham Castle The "sister" castle to Brough. Built and owned by the same two families.
Penrith Castle A shadow of its former glory, this castle sits on the outskirts of Penrith in a beautiful park and used as a children's playground.
Bowes Castle A 12 century keep is all that remains of this North Yorkshire castle, built to defend against Scottish invasion.
23/05/00 Gawthorpe Hall Information added
23/05/00 Culzean Castle Written information finally added to this castle, visited while at a family wedding several years ago.
22/05/00 Charlecote Park Information added
01/05/00 Charlecote Park An Elizabethan house in Warwickshire. Pictures added to start this page. Written information to follow.
Bolsover Castle Photos added.
24/04/00 Salley Abbey An Easter bank holiday trip into Lancashire to see three properties:
There is not much left of Salley Abbey which from the evidence available appears to have been occupied by a very poor community. Interesting as a contrast to Fountains Abbey, a much larger Cistercian Abbey found in Yorkshire.
Clitheroe Castle The civil war took its toll on this castle which has only its small keep remaining. Surprisingly it is the only remaining castle in Lancashire which had a royalist garrison.
Gawthorpe Hall An Elizabethan manor house faithfully restored 1850-52 by Sir Charles Barry. Pictures added to start this page. Information on the hall to follow.
27/03/00 Furness Abbey A trip to the Lake District and to one of Robert Bruce's conquests.
26/03/00 Warbrook House Stayed here on a course during March. This property is currently the IBM Business School ... some have all the luck!
26/03/00 Related Web Sites Related Sites page updated with link to www.theheritagetrail.co.uk
21/03/00 Inchmahome Priory Back to Scotland and found on an island in the middle of Lake of
15/03/00 Peterborough Cathedral March was a good month for cathedrals and few are more stunning than Peterborough, the resting place of Henry VIII's unfortunate first wife, Katherine of Aragon.
15/03/00 Gainsborough Old Hall A lovely new property visited during a quick stop over in Lincolnshire. Pictured here on a sunny Monday morning in March.
15/03/00 Ely Cathedral A new page added for Ely Cathedral visited during a quick stop over in Lincolnshire.
08/02/00 Warkworth Castle A new page added for this Percy family castle. Unfortunately the pictures taken in 1998 are missing but as we are returning to Northumberland later this year another visit to this castle will remedy this omission. Watch this space!
02/02/00 Alnwick Castle Historical text finally added to pictures taken at the end of 1998!
24/01/00 Ripon Cathedral Glorious sunny January day, and a trip to Ripon. The picture here gives the illusion that the cathedral is made of gold
22/01/00 Studley Royal New pictures of Fountains Hall and Studley Royal Gardens on a lovely  January afternoon.
21/01/00 Fountains Abbey New pictures of Fountains Abbey added to this page. Re-visited on the same day as Studley Royal, above.
15/01/00 Harewood House Information Added

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