Castles & Historic Attractions
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One of England’s oldest surviving brick buildings, built for Henry VI’s treasurer, reduced to a romantic ruin, rebuilt in the 20th century, and now a Canadian university’s castle campus — here’s the deep history and everything you need to actually plan a visit.
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The country home of the Bishops of London for nearly 1,300 years, with the longest domestic moat in England and London’s second-oldest botanic garden — here’s the deep history and everything you need to actually plan a visit, entirely free.
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A neo-Palladian villa built to showcase one earl’s Grand Tour art collection, and the birthplace of the English landscape garden — here’s the deep history and everything you need to actually plan a visit, Beatles filming locations included.
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The castle where the Tudor dynasty began, and the only major fortress in Wales still run by the family that saved it from ruin.
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Where a king’s son was born, and two future kings were made Prince of Wales six centuries apart — Caernarfon is the grandest of Edward I’s Welsh fortresses.
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The castle where a king’s reign quietly ended, and Edward I’s walls still ring an entire town — Conwy remains one of Britain’s best-preserved medieval fortresses.
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The castle Owain Glyndŵr called home, and the site of Britain’s longest siege — Harlech still guards the Cambrian coast six centuries on.