18,325 protected sites
Most of these are listed buildings, and most listed buildings are private homes, terraces, walls and milestones rather than places to visit. The scheduled monuments are the older layer: earthworks, ruins, barrows and the remains of things that have no roof left.
- Listed buildings
- 18,041
- Scheduled monuments
- 133
- Parks and gardens
- 151
Counted from the National Heritage List for England on 16 September 2026, within 10 miles of the centre of London.
41 properties you can visit
Run by English Heritage, Historic Houses, National Trust and Historic Royal Palaces. These are the places with opening hours and a way in, as opposed to the register entries above. The nearest 12 are listed here.
- Benjamin Franklin HouseHistoric Houses · London
- Banqueting HouseHistoric Royal Palaces
- The CenotaphEnglish Heritage · Westminster
- Spencer HouseHistoric Houses · 27 St James's Place
- Roman Baths, Strand LaneNational Trust
- Jewel TowerEnglish Heritage · Westminster
- Chapter House and Pyx ChamberEnglish Heritage
- Blewcoat SchoolNational Trust · London
- Handel Hendrix HouseHistoric Houses · 25 Brook Street
- Wellington ArchEnglish Heritage · Hyde Park Corner
- Apsley HouseEnglish Heritage · London
- Foundling MuseumHistoric Houses · 40 Brunswick Square
See all of it on one map
Visit History draws every site above on a single map, so you are not checking seven organisations one at a time. It also carries the Environment Agency LiDAR survey, which shows the shape of the ground itself, and six editions of Ordnance Survey mapping from 1885 onwards. Earthworks that are invisible on the ground and unmarked on modern maps are often obvious on both.