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• Brackley
  ...that it was held by Earl Alberic. After his time, it passed to the Earl of Leicester, and to the families of De Quincy and Roland.<ref name="EB1911">[http://enc ...as local wars). The tournament site is believed to be to the south of the castle where the A422 now passes.
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• Higham Ferrers
  ...the borough in order to promote a prosperous community at the gates of his castle, where people had begun to settle in numbers and to trade in the ancient ma ...of the Green Dragon Inn, formerly within the area of the outer ward of the castle, are the remains of a rectangular dove-house.
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• Towcester
  ...can'': A Midsummer the [Danish] army broke the peace in of Northampton and Leicester and the north and went to Towcester and fought at that burh all the day tha In the 11th century, the Normans built a motte and bailey castle on the site. Bury Mount are the remains of the fortification and is a sched
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• Eastwood, Nottinghamshire
  ...tery, weapons, and dug-out canoes, which are now preserved at [[Nottingham Castle]], and at the University of Nottingham.<ref name=histbrox>{{Cite journal ...and much of the land around Eastwood was granted to the Greys of [[Codnor Castle]].
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• Shifnal
  ...agonsæte', in Bassett, S. (ed.), ''The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms'', Leicester University Press, 1989); Bede's ''Ecclesiastical History'', iv, 6.</ref> Charles Dickens, whose grandmother was reputedly employed at nearby Tong Castle,<ref>[http://www.discoveringtong.org/victorian.htm Discovering Tong: Chapte
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• River Parrett
  ...dgwater.net/Town/About_Town/History/bridgwater_castle.htm|title=Bridgwater Castle|publisher=Bridgwater.net|accessdate=12 October 2008}}</ref> From Bridgwater The town of [[Bridgwater]] was founded as a new borough about 1200; it had a castle and a market and became a port in its own right.<ref name="rippon-234-237">
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• Beaumaris Castle
  {{Infobox castle |name=Beaumaris Castle
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• Harlech Castle
  {{Infobox castle |name=Harlech Castle
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• Limerick
  [[File:Limerick-King-Johns-Castle-2012.JPG|right|thumb|200px|King John's Castle on the Shannon]] ...ntury and added much of the most notable architecture, such as King John's Castle and St Mary's Cathedral.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Hodkinson|first=Brian|year
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• Kenilworth Castle
  {{Infobox castle |name=Kenilworth Castle
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• Warwick Castle
  {{Infobox castle |name=Warwick Castle
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• Mercia
  As a flag, the Cross of St Alban is flown from Tamworth Castle, the ancient seat of the Mercian Kings, to this day. It was also flown outs ...ingdom of Mercia"'', and that it was a ''"a quartering in the town arms of Leicester"''.<ref>Frederick Smeeton Williams, ''The Midland Railway: Its rise and pro
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• National Cycle Network
  *NCR 14: [[Barnard Castle]] – [[Stockton-on-Tees]] – [[Hartlepool]] – [[Durham]] – [[Consett] *NCR 26: [[Clevedon]] – [[Wells]] – [[Castle Cary]] – [[Yeovil]] – [[Dorchester]]
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• Plas Mawr
  ...eighbouring Denbighshire at the time, including the redecoration of Gwydir Castle, Maenan Hall further up the Conwy valley, Plas Mawr in [[Caernarfon]] and [ ...ciester's symbol at Plas Mawr.JPG|The bear and ragged staff of the Earl of Leicester
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• Sulgrave
  ...t grand building to have stood here; the village in ages past had a Norman castle, and a Norman and earlier Anglo-Saxon thegn's hall, traces of which have be ==Thegn's hall and castle==
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• Bedford Castle
  {{Infobox castle |name=Bedford Castle
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• Rochester Castle
  {{Infobox castle |name=Rochester Castle
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• Newport Castle
  {{Infobox castle |name=Newport Castle
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• Giant's Causeway & Bushmills Railway
  ...ent originally assembled by Lord O’Neill for a tourist line at [[Shane's Castle]], Country Antrim, which closed in 1994. The idea of using this to revive p ...appeared over Ballylinney hill en route to the Giant’s Causeway station. Castle Engineering had been at the station from 07.30 setting up the 50-ton all te
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• Highgate
  ...raffic island that used to stand on the intersection of Southwood Lane and Castle Yard. The cover for their 1968 album Village Green Preservation Society was
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