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Amberley Museum, West Sussex - Displays industrial history through historic buildings, working exhibits and demonstrations of craft skills. Collections; site tour via an interactive map; visitor information.
 
Avoncroft Museum of Buildings - Over 20 historic buildings, including a windmill, have been dismantled and re-erected on this site in Bromsgrove, Hereford and Worcester.
 
Beamish: The North of England Open Air Museum - Set over 300 acres of countryside in county Durham, the site vividly recreates life in Northern England in the 1800s and 1900s. Covers the social, agricultural and industrial history of the region.
 
Bede's World - The Museum of Early Medieval Northumbria at Jarrow. Looks at the life and times of the Venerable Bede (AD 673-735,) one of the greatest scholars of the Early Middle Ages.
 
Black Country Living Museum - Heritage of the heart of industrial England, with recreated buildings from the 19th and early 20th centuries brought to life by costumed demonstrators. Tour via interactive map.
 
Blue Hills Tin Streams, St Agnes, Cornwall - See tin produced from mineral to metal. Location map, illustrations and description of the process and facilities.
 
Butser Ancient Farm - Replica of an Iron Age farm circa 300 BC, with buildings, animals and crops. Both a museum and an open-air laboratory for research into the Iron Age and Roman periods. Photos, information for visitors and schools.
 
Chiltern Open Air Museum - This museum at Chalfont St Giles, Bucks. rescues and re-erects historic buildings from medieval to modern. Its collection includes a cottage of around 1600, and a variety of 19th-century buildings.
 
Dunaskin Open Air Museum, Scotland - The site at Waterside, by Patna, Ayrshire was a Victorian ironworks.
 
Flag Fen - At Easter and in the Summer archaeologists can be seen at work excavating this unique site, where waterlogging has preserved evidence of a prehistoric way of life. Iron Age and Bronze Age Roundhouses have been reconstructed. Rare breed animals. Visitor information from this official site.
 
Geevor Tin Mine, Cornwall - Closed in 1990, now a preserved mining site managed by The Trevithick Trust. Visitor information.
 
Levant Mine, Cornwall - Former tin and copper mine, home to Cornwall's oldest working beam engine. Photographs, location map, visitor information and news.
 
Living History Village 1642 - Gosport Living History Society recreate English rural life in the South of England during 1642 in the village of Little Woodham. Photograph and visitor information.
 
Milestones - Hampshire's living history museum with collections of industrial and everyday life.
 
Museum of East Anglian Life - St Osyth's Priory, Essex, owned the manor of Stowmarket and built the 13th-century barn which forms the centrepiece of this open air museum. Other vernacular buildings have been rescued and moved to the site.
 
Museum of Welsh Life - In the 100-acre parkland of St Fagans Castle, a late 16th-century manor house, are over 30 buildings moved from various parts of Wales and re-erected to show how the people of Wales lived at various times in history. Visitor information, events, collections.
 
National Showcaves Centre for Wales - The caves at Dan yr Ogof include a display of Bronze Age life. Other attractions include life-sized dinosaur models in the Dinosaur Park and a reconstructed Iron Age Village.
 
Norfolk Rural Life Museum and Union Farm - At a former workhouse at Gressenhall you can see recreations of craftsmans workshops, a bakery, shop and cottage. The farm is stocked with rare East Anglian breeds and worked with horses.
 
Peat Moors Centre - Near Glastonbury has reconstructions of Iron Age roundhouses, prehistoric trackways, Roman pottery kilns and an Iron Age canoe. Details and visitor information from Somerset County Council.
 
Ryedale Folk Museum - Three acres of displays of life in the North York Moors. Guide to the site via sensitive map, illustrated description of highlights of the collection and crafts demonstrated, events listing.
 
 

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