Plots

51 places across Britain and Ireland

• Ashby St LedgersNear Daventry, Northamptonshire · Robert Catesby's family manor, where the plot is said to have been planned.
• Baddesley ClintonNear Knowle, Warwickshire · A moated manor where Jesuit priests hid in the sewers.
• Cato StreetMarylebone, London · A plot to murder the whole Cabinet at a dinner party.
• Coughton CourtAlcester, Warwickshire · Where the plotters' families waited for news from London.
• DunchurchNear Rugby, Warwickshire · A 'hunting party' waiting for news that never came.
• GlenfinnanGlenfinnan, Lochaber · Where Bonnie Prince Charlie raised his standard.
• Glyndŵr's Parliament HouseMachynlleth, Powys · Where Owain Glyndŵr was crowned Prince of an independent Wales.
• Gowrie HousePerth · A pot of gold, a turret room and a king shouting 'Treason!' from the window.
• Hindlip HallNear Worcester · Priests hidden in secret holes for over a week as searchers tore the house apart.
• Holbeche HouseNear Kingswinford, Staffordshire · The plotters' last stand, where their own gunpowder blew up in their faces.
• Howard House (Charterhouse)Clerkenwell, London · Coded letters hidden under roof tiles that doomed a duke.
• Huddington CourtNear Droitwich, Worcestershire · The Wintour family home, where the fugitives made their last confession.
• Illiam DhoneHango Hill, Castletown, Isle of Man · A Manx patriot shot for treason on a seaside hill.
• Jack Cade's RebellionCade Street, near Heathfield, East Sussex · A Kentish rebel who took London, then was hunted down in Sussex.
• Kett's RebellionKett's Heights, Norwich · 16,000 rebels camped above Norwich and took England's second city.
• Kirk o' FieldOld College, Edinburgh · A house blown up, and a king found strangled in the garden.
• Lambert Simnel and Stoke FieldEast Stoke, Nottinghamshire · A boy crowned king in Dublin, who ended up turning the spit in the royal kitchens.
• Monmouth's LandingLyme Regis, Dorset · Where a duke came ashore to seize the crown, and the West Country rose with him.
• Perkin WarbeckWhitesand Bay, Cornwall · A young man who claimed to be one of the Princes in the Tower.
• Primrose HillCamden, London · A magistrate found dead in a ditch, and a nation gripped by a plot that never was.
• Robert Emmet's RisingThomas Street, Dublin · A failed rising, and the most famous speech from the dock in Irish history.
• Rye HouseHoddesdon, Hertfordshire · A plot to ambush the king on his way home from the races.
• Silken ThomasSt Mary's Abbey, Dublin · A young lord threw down the sword of state and rose against Henry VIII.
• The Appin MurderLettermore Wood, near Ballachulish · A government agent shot dead, and an innocent man hanged for it.
• The Babington PlotChartley, Staffordshire · Secret letters in beer barrels that sealed a queen's fate.
• The Battle of BonnymuirNear Bonnybridge, Falkirk · The 'Radical War', when weavers marched to seize an ironworks.
• The Clerkenwell ExplosionClerkenwell, London · A bomb at a prison wall, and the last public hanging in England.
• The Cornish RebellionSt Keverne, Cornwall · A blacksmith led thousands of Cornishmen to march on London.
• The Despard PlotLambeth, London · A war hero accused of plotting to kill the king.
• The Duck and Drake InnThe Strand, London · Where five men first swore an oath to blow up Parliament.
• The Easter RisingGeneral Post Office, Dublin · Rebels seized the Post Office and declared an Irish Republic.
• The Essex RebellionEssex House, Strand, London · Elizabeth I's former favourite marched on London, and lost his head.
• The French Fleet in Bantry BayBantry Bay, County Cork · A French invasion of Ireland defeated only by the weather.
• The Great Hall, WinchesterWinchester, Hampshire · Where Sir Walter Raleigh was tried for plotting against the new king.
• The Manchester MartyrsHyde Road, Manchester · A Fenian ambush on a prison van, and three hangings.
• The Merthyr RisingMerthyr Tydfil · Ironworkers seized the town, and an innocent man was hanged.
• The Murder of David RizzioPalace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh · Stabbed dozens of times in front of the pregnant Mary, Queen of Scots.
• The Newport RisingWestgate Hotel, Newport · The last large armed uprising against the government in Britain.
• The Peasants' RevoltBlackheath, London · 'When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?'
• The Pentrich RisingPentrich, Derbyshire · A rising stirred up by a government spy.
• The Phoenix Park MurdersPhoenix Park, Dublin · Two top officials stabbed to death in broad daylight.
• The Pilgrimage of GraceClifford's Tower, York · A great northern rising against Henry VIII, and its leader hanged in chains.
• The Prayer Book RebellionSampford Courtenay, Devon · A rising against the new English church service, with thousands killed.
• The Rebecca RiotsEfailwen, Carmarthenshire · Farmers dressed as women smashed the hated tollgates.
• The Ruthven RaidHuntingtower Castle, Perth · Nobles kidnapped the teenage King James VI.
• The Throckmorton PlotPaul's Wharf, London · A secret go-between, a raid, and a list of names found in a casket.
• The Tolpuddle MartyrsTolpuddle, Dorset · Six farm workers transported for joining a union.
• The UndercroftPalace of Westminster, London · Thirty-six barrels of gunpowder beneath the House of Lords.
• White WebbsEnfield, London · A hidden safe house in the woods of Enfield Chase.
• William of Orange's LandingBrixham, Devon · A secret invitation, an invasion, and a king who fled without a fight.
• Wyatt's RebellionAllington Castle, near Maidstone, Kent · A rising against Mary I that cost Lady Jane Grey her life.