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Roman Painted House, Dover: Ticket prices, hours and tips – plan your visit

The Roman Painted House is an excavated Roman mansio and archaeological museum located on New Street in the centre of Dover, Kent. This guide covers opening hours, ticket prices, transport or parking, accessibility, and practical visitor tips. This guide to one of the lesser-known Roman…

The best English Heritage sites in the Midlands to visit

The Midlands is not a region that markets itself aggressively to tourists. It has no coastline, no national park of the Lake District's fame, no city with Edinburgh's skyline. What it has, quietly and in extraordinary concentration, is some of the finest historic sites in…

Richborough Roman Fort and Amphitheatre visitor guide: Opening hours, tickets, and how to plan your visit

Richborough Roman Fort and Amphitheatre is a Roman Saxon Shore fort near Sandwich in Kent — described by English Heritage as the most significant Roman site in Britain. This guide covers opening hours, ticket prices, transport, parking, accessibility, and practical visitor tips. This guide was…

The Roman Baths, Bath: ticket prices, hours and tips – plan your visit

The Roman Baths is a 2,000-year-old Roman bathing complex and museum located in Abbey Church Yard, Bath, BA1 1LZ, in the centre of Bath's UNESCO World Heritage city, immediately next to Bath Abbey. Owned and managed by Bath & North East Somerset Council, the site…

Fishbourne Roman Palace, Fishbourne: Ticket prices, hours and tips – plan your visit

Fishbourne Roman Palace is an archaeological museum and historical site located in Fishbourne, West Sussex. This guide covers opening hours, ticket prices, transport or parking, accessibility, and practical visitor tips. This guide was updated in May 2026 to reflect current entry policies, noting the updated…

Vindolanda, Northumberland: ticket prices, hours and tips – plan your visit

Roman Vindolanda Fort and Museum is one of Europe's most significant Roman archaeological sites, located at Bardon Mill, Hexham, Northumberland, NE47 7JN, approximately one mile south of Hadrian's Wall. Managed by the Vindolanda Charitable Trust, the site includes a stone Roman fort, a surrounding civilian…

Beverley Minster, Yorkshire: Ticket prices, hours and tips – plan your visit

Beverley Minster is a large parish church and historic architectural site in Beverley, East Yorkshire. This guide covers opening hours, ticket prices, transport or parking, accessibility, and practical visitor tips. This guide was updated in May 2026 to reflect current entry policies, noting that general…

Exeter Cathedral in Devon, South-West England.

Exeter Cathedral: Ticket prices, hours and tips – plan your visit

Exeter Cathedral is a medieval gothic church and historic site located on Cathedral Green in the centre of Exeter. This guide covers opening hours, ticket prices, transport or parking, accessibility, and practical visitor tips. This guide was updated in May 2026 to reflect current entry…

Gloucester Cathedral in Gloucestershire, England.

Gloucester Cathedral: Ticket prices, hours and tips – plan your visit

Gloucester Cathedral is a medieval church and architectural site located in the centre of Gloucester. This guide covers opening hours, ticket prices, transport or parking, accessibility, and practical visitor tips. This guide was updated in May 2026 to reflect current entry policies, noting that general…

The best Gothic cathedrals and churches in the UK to visit

Gothic architecture reached England in the late 12th century and did not really stop until the Reformation ended the great building campaigns of the medieval church in the 1530s. In those three and a half centuries, English builders developed a sequence of styles — Early…