Britain's Best
Britain's Best 2007: The winners
Over the past six months, you have been voting for your favourite historical site. We received over 600,000 votes via web, red button, post, phone and SMS - and can finally reveal the winners...
1. Stonehenge
It may be 5000 years old, but it still manages to capture and inspire. Stonehenge, on the bleak and windy Salisbury Plains received 15% of the overall votes - making it undoubtedly Britain's Best.
Click here to read why visitors to the site voted it Britain's Best.
2. HMS Victory
3. Liverpool Cathedral
4. Tamworth Castle
5. Lincoln Cathedral
6. Hadrian's Wall
7. York Minster
8. Erddig
9. Brewery Arts Centre
10. Alton Towers
The other sites in the Top 100:
A
Alnwick Castle
Alnwick Garden
Anne Hathaway's Cottage
Avebury
Ayscoughfee Hall
B
Bamburgh Castle
Beamish Museum
Belton House
Bettys Cafe Tea Rooms
Blackpool Tower
Blenheim Palace
Bletchley Park
Bodiam Castle
Bodnant Gardens
Brontë Parsonage
Buckingham Palace
Burghley House
C
Canterbury Cathedral
Carreg Cennen Castle
Castell Coch
Castle Howard
Chatham Historic Dockyard
Chatsworth Garden
Chatsworth House
Chirk Castle
Clifton Suspension Bridge
Conwy Castle
Coventry Cathedral
Cragside
Crathes Castle Gardens
Crofton Beam Engines
Culloden Battle Field
D
Dover Castle
Dudley Canal Tunnel & Limestone Mines
Dunfermline Abbey
Durham Cathedral
E
Edinburgh Castle
Ely Cathedral
F
Fishbourne Roman Palace
Forth Bridge
Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal Water Garden
G
Glasgow Cathedral
H
Haddon Hall
Hampton Court
Hardwick Hall
Harewood House
Harlech Castle
K
Kendal Castle
Kenilworth Castle
Kensington Palace
Kew Gardens
Kinneil House and Museum
L
Lancaster Castle
Lanhydrock
Leeds Castle
Levens Hall and Gardens
Lincoln Castle
Linlithgow Palace
Lost Gardens of Heligan
M
Mayflower Steps
Metropolitan Cathedral Liverpool
Mother Shipton's Cave and the Petrifying Well
Muncaster Castle
N
New Lanark
Nottingham Castle
P
Portmeirion
R
Rochester Castle
Royal Pavilion
S
Salisbury Cathedral
Scone Palace
Sherwood Forest
Skara Brae
Skipton Castle
Southsea Castle
St Davids Cathedral
St Paul's Cathedral
Stirling Castle
T
Tattershall Castle
Tatton Park Mansion
Tintern Abbey
Tower of London
Twyford Waterworks
W
Wallace Monument
Warwick Castle
Wentworth Castle Gardens
Westminster Abbey
Whitby Abbey
Woolsthorpe Manor
Worsbrough Mill Museum
It may be 5000 years old, but it still manages to capture and inspire. Stonehenge, on the bleak and windy Salisbury Plains received 15% of the overall votes - making it undoubtedly Britain's Best.
Click here to read why visitors to the site voted it Britain's Best.
2. HMS Victory
3. Liverpool Cathedral
4. Tamworth Castle
5. Lincoln Cathedral
6. Hadrian's Wall
7. York Minster
8. Erddig
9. Brewery Arts Centre
10. Alton Towers
The other sites in the Top 100:
A
Alnwick Castle
Alnwick Garden
Anne Hathaway's Cottage
Avebury
Ayscoughfee Hall
B
Bamburgh Castle
Beamish Museum
Belton House
Bettys Cafe Tea Rooms
Blackpool Tower
Blenheim Palace
Bletchley Park
Bodiam Castle
Bodnant Gardens
Brontë Parsonage
Buckingham Palace
Burghley House
C
Canterbury Cathedral
Carreg Cennen Castle
Castell Coch
Castle Howard
Chatham Historic Dockyard
Chatsworth Garden
Chatsworth House
Chirk Castle
Clifton Suspension Bridge
Conwy Castle
Coventry Cathedral
Cragside
Crathes Castle Gardens
Crofton Beam Engines
Culloden Battle Field
D
Dover Castle
Dudley Canal Tunnel & Limestone Mines
Dunfermline Abbey
Durham Cathedral
E
Edinburgh Castle
Ely Cathedral
F
Fishbourne Roman Palace
Forth Bridge
Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal Water Garden
G
Glasgow Cathedral
H
Haddon Hall
Hampton Court
Hardwick Hall
Harewood House
Harlech Castle
K
Kendal Castle
Kenilworth Castle
Kensington Palace
Kew Gardens
Kinneil House and Museum
L
Lancaster Castle
Lanhydrock
Leeds Castle
Levens Hall and Gardens
Lincoln Castle
Linlithgow Palace
Lost Gardens of Heligan
M
Mayflower Steps
Metropolitan Cathedral Liverpool
Mother Shipton's Cave and the Petrifying Well
Muncaster Castle
N
New Lanark
Nottingham Castle
P
Portmeirion
R
Rochester Castle
Royal Pavilion
S
Salisbury Cathedral
Scone Palace
Sherwood Forest
Skara Brae
Skipton Castle
Southsea Castle
St Davids Cathedral
St Paul's Cathedral
Stirling Castle
T
Tattershall Castle
Tatton Park Mansion
Tintern Abbey
Tower of London
Twyford Waterworks
W
Wallace Monument
Warwick Castle
Wentworth Castle Gardens
Westminster Abbey
Whitby Abbey
Woolsthorpe Manor
Worsbrough Mill Museum
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