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Historic sites near Wakefield

What is protected, and what is open, within 10 miles of Wakefield, West Yorkshire.

2,746 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
2,671
Scheduled monuments
58
Parks and gardens
16
Battlefields
1

Counted from the National Heritage List for England on 12 October 2026, within 10 miles of the centre of Wakefield.

3 properties you can visit

Run by National Trust, Historic Houses and English Heritage. These are the places with opening hours and a way in, as opposed to the register entries above.

  • Nostell PrioryNational Trust · near Wakefield
  • Temple Newsam HouseHistoric Houses · Leeds
  • Monk Bretton PrioryEnglish Heritage · Barnsley

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.

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