Areas, buildings and monuments

A Grade I listed medieval house in Wales’ Black Mountains has been brought back to life thanks to National Lottery players.

A total of £8.6million in National Lottery grants will preserve UK’s industrial heritage, from Newcastle’s Mining Institute to Sherwood Forest’s industrial past

HRH The Prince of Wales has visited a medieval house which is being restored thanks to National Lottery players, and has met the craftspeople whose skills have helped saved the building.

During a recent visit to St Fagans National Museum of History, HLF Chief Executive Ros Kerslake and the Head of HLF in Wales, Richard Bellamy, helped put some finishing touches to a new display.

It’s the site of a famous Beatles flour-bombing incident, and suffragettes Vera Holme and Elsie Howey once hid here overnight so they could shout ‘votes for women’ during a speech the next day. Now, Colston Hall is set to become one of the country's best arts and learning facilities.

Wales’s only parish mortuary – or ‘Dead House’ (where bodies were kept in Victorian times before burial) – will be saved from ruin thanks to £50,000 raised by National Lottery players.

The lively beach, fishing scene and high tidal ranges at popular Welsh tourist destination Porthcawl provide a challenging set of circumstances for emergency and rescue teams.

The former Brymbo Iron and Steel Works and Fossil Forest takes its first step towards regeneration, thanks to the National Lottery.

The former Brymbo Iron and Steel Works, and Fossil Forest will receive a National Lottery grant to transform it into a major visitor attraction.

Thanks to National Lottery players, the former home of one of Wales’s most famous poets is being reopened following extensive redevelopment today.

More than £10million has been earmarked for a major restoration of Aberystwyth University’s iconic Old College, the birthplace of university education in Wales.

£10million National Lottery support to redevelop Wales’s oldest university college.