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Castlerigg stone circlePhoto Pam Crane / Pexels
Hand-picked places worth the detour, starred by the Albion Guide. 34 on the map.
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ScotlandHighlands and Islands
WalesNorth WalesElsewhere
Duddo stone circle, 800m north east of Grindonrigg
Northumberland
The best-preserved stretch of Rome's northern frontier, running along the crags of open Northumberland moorland, and free to walk
Greek-temple folly on a prominent hill.
Tyne and Wear
Neolithic circle in a ring of fells.
Keswick
Long Meg and Her Daughters stone circle, associated cursus and prehistoric enclosure
Lazonby
Sunkenkirk Stone Circle, 230m south east of Swinside
Broughton-in-Furness
Britain's most-studied Iron Age hillfort, free to roam.
Hampshire
Hillfort, the possible remains of a Romano-Celtic temple and a group of three bowl barrows at Hollingbury
East Sussex
Ancient complex of a stone circle, a solitary monolith and a burial chamber on the Cotswold ridge at the county edge.
Oxfordshire
The Trundle hillfort, causewayed enclosure and associated remains at St Roche's Hill
West Sussex
Neolithic chambered long barrow ringed by beech trees on the Ridgeway, named in legend for a Saxon smith-god.
Vast henge and circle wrapping a whole village.
Wiltshire
Well-preserved Neolithic chambered long barrow.
Gloucestershire
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
Europe's largest Iron Age hillfort, ramparts intact.
Dorset
Europe's largest man-made prehistoric mound.
The old sycamore on Tolpuddle's green where six farm workers met in 1834 and set the trade-union movement going
Big Iron Age hillfort ringing a flat hilltop above Uley, with far views over the Severn Vale.
Dramatic terraced Iron Age hillfort at the south end of the Malverns, with vast views over Severn and Wye.
Worcestershire
Iron Age hillfort on a steep wooded scarp above Croft Castle, with sweeping views across the Marches.
Herefordshire
Mitchell's Fold stone circle, standing stone and cairn 280m south west of Mitchell's Fold
Shropshire
Neolithic flint mines you can climb down into.
Norfolk
Bronze Age stone circle on Stanton Moor.
Derbyshire
Anglo-Saxon royal ship-burial mounds by the Deben.
Suffolk
England's best-preserved Victorian workhouse, kept much as the poor of the 1800s would have known it, near Southwell
Nottinghamshire
Cruciform Neolithic stone setting on Lewis.
Na h-Eileanan Siar
Clava Cairns, cairns 70m, 170m NE of and 210m, 460m ENE of, barrow 270m NE of, and standing stone 395m NE of Balnuarin
Highland
Dwarfie Stane, rock-cut tomb, Hoy
Orkney Islands
An Iron Age hillfort in Denbighshire.
Denbighshire
Well-preserved late-Roman-era enclosed settlement near Moelfre, with nine surviving stone buildings inside a walled compound.
Anglesey
A Neolithic chambered tomb in Anglesey.
An Iron Age hillfort in Carmarthenshire.
Carmarthenshire
A prehistoric standing stone in Powys.
Powys
An Iron Age hillfort in Powys.
