Ancient stones in EnglandEngland

Neolithic circle in a ring of fells.

Cumbria

Vast henge and circle wrapping a whole village.

Wiltshire

Greek-temple folly on a prominent hill.

Tyne and Wear

The most famous prehistoric monument in the world.

Wiltshire

Anglo-Saxon royal ship-burial mounds by the Deben.

Suffolk

Europe's largest Iron Age hillfort, ramparts intact.

Dorset

Europe's largest man-made prehistoric mound.

Wiltshire

Long Meg and Her Daughters stone circle, associated cursus and prehistoric enclosure

Cumbria

Mitchell's Fold stone circle, standing stone and cairn 280m south west of Mitchell's Fold

Shropshire

Bronze Age stone circle on Stanton Moor.

Derbyshire

A clifftop tin mine near St Just where the old pumping engine still turns under steam, above workings that ran out beneath the sea

Cornwall

Stone courtyard houses of an Iron Age and Roman farming village on a Penwith hillside.

Cornwall

Late Bronze Age settlement in a Dartmoor fold between Hookney and Hameldown tors, where a thick stone wall rings the footings of 24 round houses.

Devon

Well-preserved Neolithic chambered long barrow.

Gloucestershire

Ancient complex of a stone circle, a solitary monolith and a burial chamber on the Cotswold ridge at the county edge.

Oxfordshire

Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, 230m south east of Swinside

Cumbria

Neolithic chambered long barrow ringed by beech trees on the Ridgeway, named in legend for a Saxon smith-god.

Oxfordshire

Neolithic long barrow near Wellow with seven burial chambers off a low passage and a large fossil ammonite set in its entrance stone.

Somerset

Neolithic long barrow on the Cotswold edge near Uley, better known as Hetty Pegler's Tump, with stone burial chambers opening off a low passage.

Gloucestershire

Neolithic avenue of paired standing stones winding south from Avebury towards The Sanctuary, its northern stretch re-erected in the 1930s.

Wiltshire

One of Britain's largest Neolithic chambered tombs, open to walk inside, within sight of Silbury Hill.

Wiltshire

The best-preserved stretch of Rome's northern frontier, running along the crags of open Northumberland moorland, and free to walk

Northumberland

The old sycamore on Tolpuddle's green where six farm workers met in 1834 and set the trade-union movement going

Dorset

Neolithic burial chamber with a huge capstone.

Herefordshire

Bronze Age hut circles beside double stone rows, a small stone circle and a tall standing stone on the open moor west of Princetown.

Devon

Tallest standing stone in Britain, in a churchyard.

East Riding of Yorkshire

Roman staging post with visible bathhouse remains.

Staffordshire

Neolithic flint mines you can climb down into.

Norfolk