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is a castle currently in ruins found on Tintagel Island, located near the village of Tintagel in Cornwall, England, UK. The 'Island' is in fact a peninsula subject to erosion by the sea. The site was perhaps originally a Roman settlement, though the remains of the castle that stand today date from the 13th century. The castle is traditionally linked to the legend of King Arthur and as such it is currently a popular tourist site run by English Heritage. Ticket Price Adult: £4.90 Children: £2.50 Concession: £4.20 Family Ticket: £12.30 Useful Information Address: Cornwall - PL34 0HE Road Access: On Tintagel Head, 600 metres (660 yards) along uneven track from Tintagel; no vehicles except Land Rover service, extra charge Bus Access: Western Greyhound 594/5 from Bude, 584/594 from Wadebridge (withconnections on 555 at Wadebridge to Bodmin Parkway railway station) Telephone: 01840 770328, Local Tourist Information: Tintagel Visitors' Centre:01840 779084; Camelford (Summer only): ...

Glastonbury Abbey Photo Gallery You can find here a romantic ruins, 36 acres peaceful parkland with pounds, orchard and wildlife areas. Also you can find unusual gift at Glastonbury Gift Shop that sit beside ticket office. History In 1955 Ralegh Radford's excavations uncovered Romano-British pottery at the west end of the nave. Saxon era A community of monks were already established at Glastonbury when King Ine of Wessex enriched their endowment. He is said to have directed that a stone church be built in 712, the foundations of which now form the west end of the nave. Glastonbury was ravaged by the Danes in the ninth century. The contemporary reformed soldier Saint Neot was sacristan at Glastonbury before he went to found his own establishment in Somerset. The abbey church was enlarged in the tenth century by the Abbot of Glastonbury, Saint Dunstan, the central figure in the tenth-century revival of English monastic life, who instituted the Benedictine Rule at Glastonbury. Dunstan...

This huge circle of lintels and megalithic pillars, believed to be approximately 5,000 years old, is considered by many to be the most important prehistoric monument in Britain. Some visitors are disappointed when they see that Stonehenge is nothing more than concentric circles of stones. But perhaps they don’t understand that Stonehenge represents an amazing engineering feat because many of the boulders, the bluestones in particular, were moved many miles (perhaps from southern Wales) to this site. If you’re a romantic, you’ll see the ruins in the early glow of dawn or else when shadows fall at sunset. The light is most dramatic at these times, the shadows longer, and the effect is often far more mesmerizing than it is in the glaring light of midday. The widely held view of 18th- and 19th-century Romantics that Stonehenge was the work of the Druids is without foundation. The boulders, many weighing several tons, are believed to have predated the arrival in Britain of the Celtic cultur...