Guy Fawkes
Member of the group of English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
Mellor hill fort
Prehistoric site dating from the British Iron Age, situated on a hill in the village of Mellor, Greater Manchester, on the western edge of the Peak District.
Scottish tower house
Characteristic style of Scottish castle building in the form of a tall tower, surrounded by one or more wings in L or Z-shaped floor plans in its later development.
Cheetham Close
Cheetham Close, a hill in the West Pennine Moors above Turton in Lancashire, is the site of an ancient stone circle.
Ralph of Coggeshall
Abbot of Coggeshall Abbey and a major contributor to the early history of England known as the Chronicon Anglicanum, in which he included several anecdotes that have become folk tales.
Castle Hill
Castle Hill is a scheduled ancient monument overlooking Huddersfield in Kirklees, West Yorkshire.
Sandal Castle
Ruined medieval castle in Sandal Magna, Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. One of two castles built overlooking the River Calder, it was built by the Warrennes, the Earls of Surrey who were Lords of the Manor of Wakefield.
Ullerwood Castle
Early medieval fortification, possibly a shell keep, in Ringway, Greater Manchester, England.
Dunham Castle
Early medieval moated motte and bailey castle just to the northwest of present-day Dunham Massey Hall in Greater Manchester, England.
Masbro’ boat disaster
Sixty-four people, mainly children, were drowned in the River Don in Masbrough, Yorkshire, on 5 July 1841 when the launch of a boat went wrong.