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- |name=King's Norton |picture=King's Norton - geograph.org.uk - 500579.jpg3 KB (458 words) - 07:08, 7 July 2016
- | name = King Edward Point ...s War .jpg|200px|thumb|right|Remains of an Argentine Puma helicopter, near King Edward Point, shot down during the Argentine invasion of South Georgia]]3 KB (487 words) - 00:08, 22 January 2013
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- |name=King's Lynn |picture caption=King's Lynn15 KB (2,577 words) - 17:57, 28 January 2016
- |name=King George Island |picture=King George Island map-en.svg5 KB (658 words) - 19:42, 20 September 2022
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- '''King's Walden''' is a small village in [[Hertfordshire]]. It is also a parish wh ...largest village of the parish is now [[Breachwood Green]]. The hamlets of King's Walden are Ley Green, Darleyhall, Lye Hill, Wandon End, Wandon Green and3 KB (409 words) - 15:39, 25 May 2013
- ...ng George V Playing Field|King George's Fields]]''', otherwise known as '''King George V Fields''', county by county. All are in the United Kingdom except ...he land. The fields are typically named "King George V Playing Field" of "King George's Field" though not in every case.65 KB (7,418 words) - 19:45, 9 October 2022
- [[File:King George's Fields SO8656.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Entrance to the KGV field in W ...s side by side (Sarratt, Herts).jpg|250px|right|thumb|Entrance Plaques for King George's Fields]]17 KB (2,788 words) - 19:56, 2 October 2016
- #Redirect[[King George V Playing Field]]40 B (6 words) - 22:52, 13 January 2013
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- #Redirect[[List of King George's Fields]]41 B (6 words) - 22:53, 13 January 2013
- [[File:King Haakon Bay in South Georgia Island.jpg|right|thumb|350px|King Haakon Bay]] '''King Haakon Bay''', or '''King Haakon Sound''', is an inlet on the rough southern coast of the island of [900 B (144 words) - 13:25, 23 January 2013
- ...350px|right|Central South Georgia: Cumberland Bay; Thatcher Peninsula with King Edward Cove and the Allardyce Range behind]] '''King Edward Cove''' is a sheltered cove immediately southwest of [[Mount Duse]],853 B (127 words) - 13:28, 23 January 2013
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- #Redirect[[King James's and Landport Gates]]44 B (6 words) - 12:46, 21 April 2016
- ...ervices Portsmouth Ground - geograph.org.uk - 757241.jpg|right|thumb|300px|King James's Gate]] '''King James's Gate''' and '''Landport Gate''' are two gateways, of the late seven3 KB (410 words) - 22:11, 17 June 2016
- |name=King John's Hunting Lodge ...in [[Somerset]]. It has never been a hunting lodge nor has it belonged to King John, nor was it yet built in his time, but apart from that it is a well-na6 KB (929 words) - 10:20, 30 January 2021
- '''King's Hedges''' is an area in the north of the city of [[Cambridge]], [[county The Cambridge Science Park is at the edge of King's Hedges.3 KB (440 words) - 10:05, 11 November 2018
- #Redirect[[Whittlesey#King's Dike]]86 B (10 words) - 16:56, 15 May 2014
- ...d- King Street Crossroads - geograph.org.uk - 997279.jpg|right|thumb|300px|King street at Stowe, Lincolnshire]] '''King Street''' is the name of a modern road on the line of a short [[Roman road]5 KB (798 words) - 13:19, 8 January 2020
- |name=King's Seat |picture=King's Seat - geograph.org.uk - 1702607.jpg973 B (146 words) - 22:26, 12 August 2016
- |name=King Alfred's Tower |picture=King Alfred's Tower view from west.jpg8 KB (1,336 words) - 18:10, 18 October 2020
- |name=King's Seat |picture=The trig point at King's Seat - geograph.org.uk - 1049400.jpg604 B (87 words) - 17:53, 1 September 2015
- |name=The King's Head |picture caption=The King's Head Inn10 KB (1,711 words) - 08:17, 19 September 2019
- #Redirect[[King's Head Inn, Aylesbury]]39 B (5 words) - 23:01, 15 September 2015
- [[File:King Edward Parish Kirk.jpg|thumb|250px|King Edward Parish Kirk]] '''King Edward''' is a small village and parish in the north of [[Aberdeenshire]] a2 KB (269 words) - 16:03, 16 October 2015
- [[File:Arthur's Round Table 3.JPG|right|thumb|300px|King Arthur's Round Table]] '''King Arthur's Round Table''' is a Neolithic 'henge', which in this context is a4 KB (646 words) - 14:49, 17 March 2016
- |name=King Charles's Castle |picture=King Charles Castle - exterior.jpg15 KB (2,305 words) - 21:34, 25 November 2015
- [[File:king-donierts-stone.jpg|right|thumb|300px|King Doniert's Stone]] ...or]] in [[Cornwall]]. The inscription is believed to commemorate Dungarth, King of Cornwall who died around 875.2 KB (366 words) - 21:41, 25 November 2015
- ...2013/12/the-kings-meadows-nz230628.html|title=North-east History Tour: The King’s Meadows|accessdate=2016-06-20}}</ref> Occasionally, horse racing meetin *Location map: {{wmap|54.961|-1.65|zoom=14|name=Location of King's Meadow island}}2 KB (225 words) - 15:08, 20 June 2016
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- [[File:King Arthur's Hall - geograph.org.uk - 29687.jpg|right|thumb|300px|King Arthur's Hall]] '''King Arthur's Hall''' is a megalithic enclosure on [[Bodmin Moor]] in [[Cornwall2 KB (399 words) - 10:49, 30 January 2021
- [[File:The King's England Northamptonshire.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The Northamptonshire volum '''''The King's England''''' is a topographical and historical book series written and ed3 KB (439 words) - 17:00, 29 September 2016
- ...be spelled with or without the apostrophe fairly indiscriminately. Both ''King's Bromley'' and ''Kings Bromley'' are seen in official documents - the vill3 KB (402 words) - 16:47, 8 October 2016
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- |picture caption= King's Sutton's central crossroads and village green |website= [http://www.kingssutton.org/ King’s Sutton Parish Council]10 KB (1,382 words) - 19:56, 9 October 2016
- '''King's Somborne''' is a village and parish in [[Hampshire]], lying on the edge o ...tary hospital.<ref>{{National Heritage List for England |num=1093814 |desc=King's Somborne War Memorial|accessdate=4 September 2016}}</ref>1 KB (216 words) - 12:35, 2 August 2018
- [[File:Kingssedgemoor.jpg|thumb|300px|King's Sedgemoor]] '''King's Sedgemoor''' is a piece of rich animal habitat and farming land, that for2 KB (278 words) - 11:55, 25 November 2016
- [[File:Kings Sedgemoor Drain.jpg|thumb|300px|King's Sedgemoor Drain near Dunball]] ...s the name suggests, the channel is used to help drain the peat moors of [[King's Sedgemoor]]. There was opposition to drainage schemes from the local inha21 KB (3,280 words) - 12:18, 25 November 2016
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- |name=King's Mill |picture= 'Creek' King's Mill windmill at Shipley, West Sussex, England 01.JPG4 KB (680 words) - 13:14, 5 February 2023
- [[File:King's Lock - geograph.org.uk - 909039.jpg|thumb|King's Lock]] '''King's Lock''' is a lock on the [[River Thames]] at the very north of [[Berkshir2 KB (393 words) - 10:08, 12 May 2017
- [[File:King Water - geograph.org.uk - 379695.jpg|right|thumb|300px|King Water under Kingsbridge Ford Bridge]] '''King Water''' is a river in the north of [[Cumberland]]. It begins in the [[Spa1,015 B (157 words) - 22:45, 30 May 2017
- '''The King's Forest of Geltsdale''' extends over the fells at the edge of the northern *Location map: {{wmap|54.87|-2.63|King's Forest of Geltsdale}}1 KB (175 words) - 17:36, 7 July 2017
- |name=King's Meaburn '''King's Meaburn''' is a small village in the north of [[Westmorland]], located fi2 KB (399 words) - 17:14, 11 September 2017
- #REDIRECT [[King Street]]25 B (3 words) - 11:26, 14 November 2017
- King Point is a headland forming the north-west entrance point of [[Ambush Bay]] ...42, and named 'Cape King' after Captain (later Rear-Admiral) Philip Parker King of ther Royal Navy (1793-1856), a naval surveyor who made notable improveme773 B (109 words) - 18:57, 10 May 2018
- |name=King's Nympton |picture=King's Nympton, towards the church - geograph.org.uk - 319193.jpg3 KB (425 words) - 22:11, 15 June 2018
- '''King John's Castle''' may be: *[[King John's Castle, Carlingford]], County Louth189 B (23 words) - 21:11, 2 April 2019
- |name=King John's Castle |picture caption=King John's Castle4 KB (614 words) - 21:14, 2 April 2019
- |name=King John's Castle |picture=Evening, King John's Castle, Kilmallock, Co. Limerick.JPG3 KB (471 words) - 21:29, 2 April 2019
- |name=King John's Castle |picture=King John's Castle in Limerick.jpg6 KB (967 words) - 10:02, 24 November 2022
- |picture=Tower of Church of St Laurence at King's Newnham Warwickshire.jpg '''King's Newnham''' otherwise '''Newnham Regis''' is a village and parish in the [2 KB (339 words) - 08:17, 11 April 2019
- |name=King's Castle '''King's Castle''' is a castle in [[Ardglass]], [[County Down]]. It was originally1 KB (201 words) - 23:31, 10 May 2019
- '''King's Caple''' is a village and parish in the [[Wormelow]] hundred of [[Herefor King's Caple has a parish church of St John the Baptist, a primary school, and t2 KB (329 words) - 12:09, 30 May 2019
- #Redirect[[King Arthur's Round Table]]38 B (5 words) - 22:42, 16 August 2019
- |name=King's Thorn |picture=Road through King's Thorn - geograph.org.uk - 664681.jpg1 KB (218 words) - 17:32, 28 August 2019
- |name=King Arthur's Cave |picture=King Arthur's Cave - geograph.org.uk - 88587.jpg7 KB (1,116 words) - 14:19, 8 November 2019
- [[File:King's Sutton Hundred - Northamptonshire.svg|thumb|250px|King's Sutton Hundred in Northamptonshire]] '''King's Sutton Hundred''' is one of the [[hundred]]s of [[Northamptonshire]], loc1 KB (153 words) - 11:53, 16 June 2022
- |name=St Edmund King and Martyr |full name=Saint Edmund the King and Martyr4 KB (599 words) - 21:57, 27 January 2020
- |name=King's Stanley '''King's Stanley''' is a village in [[Gloucestershire]], situated southwest of the1 KB (206 words) - 18:29, 11 February 2020
- |name=King's Castle |picture=King's Castle, Wells LIDAR (DTM 1m).png2 KB (321 words) - 20:47, 24 April 2020
- [[File:Kings Sombourne Hundred - Hampshire.svg|thumb|250px|King's Somborne Hundred shown within Hampshire]] *[[Ashley, King's Somborne|Ashley]]736 B (90 words) - 12:55, 6 September 2022
- [[File:King George VI Reservoir - geograph.org.uk - 61139.jpg|thumb|250px|View across t ...voir was opened in November 1947 and named after the then reigning monarch King George VI. It is owned by Thames Water.4 KB (566 words) - 17:06, 15 September 2020
- [[File:King George V Reservoir.jpg|thumb|250px|Looking west across the reservoir]] The '''King George V Reservoir''', also known as '''King George's Reservoir''', is is part of the [[Lee Valley Reservoir Chain]] on8 KB (1,162 words) - 11:53, 16 September 2020
- |name=King's Bridge |picture caption=King's Bridge2 KB (244 words) - 19:55, 23 October 2020
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- |name=King's Bridge |picture caption=The King's Bridge840 B (113 words) - 17:14, 24 December 2020
- |name=King Sterndale |picture=King Sterndale - geograph.org.uk - 88952.jpg2 KB (335 words) - 22:27, 1 June 2021
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- |name=2 King's Bench Walk |picture=2 King's Bench Walk.JPG1 KB (214 words) - 19:50, 29 June 2022
- ...n the hills eight miles west of [[Winchester]], just over a mile east of [[King's Somborne]]. Its nearest town is [[Stockbridge, Hampshire|Stockbridge]], w ...2001 Census recorded a population of just 72. It is in the civil parish of King's Somborne.803 B (113 words) - 20:32, 4 September 2022
- |name=King's Hill |picture caption=Alton Abbey near the summit of King's Hill1,006 B (158 words) - 12:45, 7 September 2022
- '''North Foreland''' is the north-east point of [[King George Island]] in the [[South Shetland Islands]] in the [[British Antarcti ...brig ''Williams'', and took formal possession of the island in the name of King George III. Smith named the point after the [[North Foreland]] in [[Kent]]:1 KB (196 words) - 19:51, 20 September 2022
- |island=King George Island ...вь Святой Троицы}}) is a small Russian Orthodox church on [[King George Island]], the largest of the [[South Shetland Islands]] in the [[Bri7 KB (926 words) - 19:11, 22 September 2022
- |name=King John's Hill |picture=King John's Hill, East Worldham, Hampshire 01.jpg3 KB (555 words) - 20:56, 23 September 2022
- '''King Ridge''' is a narrow rock ridge three nautical miles long with rises to abo ...g government support for the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition. The name King Ridge was applied to the present feature following ground survey by the Uni943 B (138 words) - 20:48, 19 December 2022
- ...e and King's Barton Hundred - Gloucestershire.svg|thumb|250px|Dudstone and King's Barton Hundred in Gloucestershire]] '''Dudstone and King's Barton''' is a [[hundred]] of [[Gloucestershire]], towards the north of t2 KB (192 words) - 15:22, 23 February 2023
- |name=King's Manor |picture=King's Manor (26233677684).jpg4 KB (699 words) - 18:25, 31 August 2023
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- |name=King's College |picture=Rear of the King's College and the Gibbs' Building.jpg21 KB (3,285 words) - 21:36, 2 April 2024
- |name=King's College Chapel |picture caption=King's College Chapel from The Backs10 KB (1,479 words) - 21:33, 10 April 2024
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- ...ah]], it also forms a detached part of Aberdeenshire's ancient parish of [[King Edward]]. *[[King Edward]]17 KB (2,564 words) - 18:38, 11 September 2022
- ...e to Bailiffgate, a tablet of stone marks the spot where William the Lion, King of Scotland, was captured in 1174, during the second Battle of Alnwick by a The accession of King James VI to the throne of England, and the effective union of the kingdoms9 KB (1,475 words) - 14:24, 18 July 2014
- |<small>1489 to 1496||'''Richard Hill'''||<small>Dean of King's Chapel and Prebendary of Salisbury |<small>1611 to 1621||'''John King'''||<small>Dean of Christchurch, Oxford23 KB (3,046 words) - 17:49, 23 May 2018
- ...stations at Arlesey, Biggleswade and Sandy, served by services to London's King's Cross Station and [[Peterborough]].7 KB (950 words) - 10:17, 29 April 2021
- **King Arthur's seat9 KB (1,376 words) - 08:20, 4 September 2019
- .... Conflicts with the Danes took place at Aberlemno and other spots. Alpin King of the Scots was defeated by Aengus in the parish of [[Liff]] in 730. At {{8 KB (1,192 words) - 19:26, 11 September 2020
- The major settlement of Antrim came under King James I and VI. Antrim was not officially designated a plantation county,18 KB (2,744 words) - 11:02, 7 June 2023
- ...lose of the 5th century Fergus, son of Erc, a descendant of Conor II, High King of Ireland, came over from Ulster with a band of warriors and colonists and ...c princedom; but in that year it was reduced by Alexander II, the Scottish king, to a shire and an integral part of Scotland. The MacDougals were dominant17 KB (2,597 words) - 17:13, 23 September 2022
- ...Crown, including almost all of Armagh and neighbouring counties; this gave King James an opportunity to plant the lands with Protestants from Great Britain13 KB (2,082 words) - 18:16, 10 November 2015
- ...is partly mountainous. Kyle is further divided by the [[River Ayr]] into King's Kyle on the north and Kyle Stewart. Kyle Stewart is sometimes called "Ste ...r III destroyed Norse power and won sovereignty over the [[Hebrides]] from King Haakon of Norway.14 KB (2,074 words) - 11:16, 7 June 2023
- ...erce battle, and a sculptured stone at [[Mortlach]] is said to commemorate King Malcolm II's victory over the Norsemen in 1010.9 KB (1,288 words) - 10:12, 31 July 2019
- ...nty is one of the oldest in England. It may date from the 840s, for in 848 King Cenwalh granted "three thousand hides by Ashdown" to Cuthred his kinsman.<r Berkshire has been the scene of many battles throughout history, during King Alfred the Great's campaign against the Danes, including the Battle of [[En10 KB (1,449 words) - 22:24, 3 April 2021
- ...important political and commercial centre. A local legend has it that Ine King of Wessex was originally a farmer in Somerton. After the Norman Conquest th ...ex for 37 years, was originally a farmer in Somerton.<ref>{{cite web|title=King Ina (Somerton)|url=http://www.somertonmuseum.org.uk/index.php?table=pages&i14 KB (2,176 words) - 09:47, 19 September 2019
- ...nd his resistance to King Charles's demands for ship money that forced the King to treat Parliament seriously. Thus in these hills began the English Civil *{{i-NTE}} [[The King's Head Inn, Aylesbury]]11 KB (1,568 words) - 11:30, 9 June 2023
- The name of Berwickshire is first found in the Charters of King David I<ref>Brown, D (ed.): ''Early Scottish Charters''</ref> but it might ...ieved to have been born in [[Lauderdale]]. In about 650, Ebba, daughter of King Æthelfrith of Northumbria, founded the nunnery at [[Coldingham]]. The adj13 KB (1,937 words) - 17:05, 24 March 2021
- ...In the 880s, King Elisedd of Brycheiniog gave homage to Alfred the Great, King of the English, an alliance made in a time predations from Gwynedd and from ...identified, but the English Chronicles call him Clydog. The last recorded king of Brycheiniog was Tewdwr ab Elise, who witnessed a charter at the English9 KB (1,354 words) - 11:47, 8 December 2019
- ...at the heart of the Kingdom of [[Gwynedd]], whose Kings claimed the title "King of Britain" until calamitous attempt to turn the title into reality in the ...Gruffydd retreated into Snowdonia, an impenetrable fastness. In response, King Edward built his "iron ring" of castles around Snowdonia, the most famous o9 KB (1,266 words) - 20:24, 17 February 2023
- ...rl of Northumbria who was lord of the neighbouring village (and brother of King Harold II), and the destruction of their town was part of Tostig's revenge. ...the [[Domesday|Domesday Book]] survey of 1085. Scarborough recovered under King Henry II, who built a stone castle on the headland, and granted the town ch21 KB (3,356 words) - 12:12, 4 November 2019
- Magnus Barefoot, King of Norway, fought in the Menai Strait too, and conquered Anglesey, accordin7 KB (1,198 words) - 12:59, 16 March 2017
- |picture=King's College Chapel and Clare College from across the river - geograph.org.uk |picture caption=King's College Chapel and Clare College, Cambridge10 KB (1,429 words) - 17:11, 16 May 2020
- ...bout 500 men called the "Cheshire Guard". The King's title was changed to "King of England and France, Lord of Ireland, and Prince of Chester". On Richard'18 KB (2,625 words) - 09:43, 6 June 2019
- *[[King's Seat]] (2,111 feet)7 KB (1,071 words) - 13:30, 16 January 2018
- ...ton Down, Devon]] to Hingston Down in Cornwall). In 875, the last recorded king of Cornwall, Dumgarth, is said to have drowned in battle. ...ough might not refer to a late king of the Cornish but to Howell the Good, King of the Welsh.37 KB (5,790 words) - 16:06, 1 November 2022
- ...Cromarty in 1685 and 1698. An influential man in the court in the days of King Charles II, James VII and William and Mary, he owned several estates in Cro ...vours of the viscount of Tarbat'': <small>Our soveraigne lord and lady the king and queen's majesties, considering that by act of parliament in anno j<sup>12 KB (1,696 words) - 17:50, 27 March 2017
- ...lovingly in the panegyric poems of Taliesin praising the kingdom's famous King Urien. The Britons took the name ''Cumbrogi'' (Welsh ''Cymry''), which orig ...de. In 945 King Edmund "ravaged all Cumberland and granted it to Malcolm, King of the Scots on the condition that he be his fellow worker on sea and on la16 KB (2,422 words) - 13:18, 19 February 2019
- ...r Valle Crucis Abbey ({{getmapecho|SJ204442}}) erected by Cyngen ap Cadell King of Powys (died 855), in honour of his great-grandfather Elisedd ap Gwylog,6 KB (828 words) - 08:09, 23 September 2022
- ...ng to tradition founded the see. The Church of Ireland was reformed under King Henry VIII. It was disestablished in 1871, but retained its schools and of The first reformed Archbishop was Hugh Goodacre, appointed by King Edward VI in 1552.<ref>Cross, F. L. (ed.) (1957) Oxford Dictionary of the C3 KB (388 words) - 11:07, 27 February 2018
- ...ans doubt that Cornwall was absorbed so late; King Athelstan's grandfather King Alfred had several estates there.20 KB (3,166 words) - 15:53, 10 April 2021
- ...49">Cullingford (p49)</ref> During the Middle Ages, Dorset was used by the king and nobility for hunting and the county still retains a number of deer par ...iamentarians who, in 1644, repelled three attacks by a Royalist army under King Charles's nephew, Prince Maurice. Maurice lost 2,000 men in the assaults an35 KB (5,395 words) - 10:01, 27 October 2018
- ...the Debatable Lands were divided between the two in 1552; 51 years before King James VI and I made the border irrelevant. ...tle, and the factions of Bruce (who was lord of Annandale), John Comyn and King John I (John Baliol) were at constant feud.12 KB (1,860 words) - 20:16, 24 July 2018
- ...nt's remains was established at Chester-le-Street and Guthfrith, the Norse King of York granted the community of St Cuthbert the area between the Tyne and ...wards the bishops frequently claimed the same rights in their lands as the king enjoyed in his kingdom.24 KB (3,699 words) - 15:59, 14 August 2020
- ...of a Northumbrian Ealdorman (and Bishop Wilfred was imprisoned here by the king around 680).<ref>Eddius - ''Vita Sancti Wilfridi''</ref> In those days the ...ears to have been a prosperous and important shire.<ref>Charter of 1139 by King David to the church of St Andrews of the church of St Mary at Haddington</r13 KB (1,906 words) - 20:54, 6 December 2016
- [[File:Erkenwin - John Speed.JPG|thumb|180px|Æscwine, first King of Essex, from John Speed's 1611 ''Saxon Heptarchy'']] ...tution of Decayed Intelligence'' (Antwerp, 1605), claiming that "Erkenwyne king of the East-Saxons did beare for his armes, three [seaxes] argent, in a fie25 KB (3,857 words) - 15:59, 1 March 2022
- King James VI described Fife as a "beggar's mantle fringed with gold" – the go In 1598 King James VI employed a group of 12 men from Fife, who became known as the "Fif11 KB (1,673 words) - 14:20, 6 May 2022
- ...) is a banner of the personal arms of a locally celebrated seventh-century king of Powys named Brochwel Ysgithrog, famed for his resistance to the invading3 KB (441 words) - 16:48, 4 October 2016
- ...ablished control over the area, a conquest which began with the victory of King Ceawlin at ''Deorham'' ([[Dyrham]]), swiftly followed by the capture of [[C In the Anarchy of King Stephen's reign, the cause of the Empress Matilda was supported by her half16 KB (2,394 words) - 10:01, 3 November 2016
- ...of David II, when it was forfeited by David le Mareschall and given by the King to Malcolm Ramsay. It was next held by William More of Abercorne, who left Between 1374 and 1377 King Robert II confirmed Adam Forrester in the lands of the Lordship of Corstorp12 KB (1,925 words) - 10:21, 3 November 2016
- ...iversity of Winchester (formerly known as ''University College Winchester; King Alfred's College''). ...e buried at [[Winchester]]. A statue in Winchester celebrates the powerful King Alfred, who stabilised the region in the 9th century.14 KB (2,242 words) - 14:48, 2 September 2020
- In the 8th century Offa King of the Mercians fixed the Mercian frontier with the Welsh in the west of He ...ywelyn of Gwynedd, beginning a campaign in which Harold Godwinesson, later King Harold II, subjugated all Wales.15 KB (2,352 words) - 13:48, 16 February 2024
- ...liam the Conqueror accepted the final English surrender and forced the boy King Edgar II to submit. After the Norman conquest, Hertfordshire was used for s ...ouse Gatehouse in [[Hoddesdon]] (part of the Rye House Plot to assassinate King Charles II).14 KB (2,058 words) - 10:01, 6 June 2019
- ...ury Columba undertook the conversion of the Picts, himself baptising their king, Brude, at Inverness; but paganism died hard and tribal wars prevented prog In 1303, King Edward I's expedition to Scotland passed through the northern districts, hi23 KB (3,722 words) - 19:09, 5 January 2021
- ...ishop and missionary to the English. He successfully converted the heathen King Æthelberht of Kent to Christianity, then established the [[Diocese of Cant ...dockyards dominated [[Deptford]] in north-eastern Kent for centuries; The King's Yard was established in 1513 by Henry VIII as the first Royal Dockyard bu24 KB (3,668 words) - 14:18, 16 March 2024
- ..., as a corporate duty, was to provide 57 ships for 15 days' service to the king annually, each port fulfilling a proportion of the whole duty.<ref name="ro ...nt factor in the need to maintain the authority of the Cinque Ports by the King was the development of the Royal Navy. With the advance in shipbuilding tec12 KB (1,957 words) - 18:35, 18 June 2017
- ...he church, and the manor at Northwood was run by noblemen on behalf of the king. Fisheries were located at the Seasalter manor, saltworks were at the North ...foundation in [[Essex]].<ref name="1000 - 1500"/> The manor was seized by King Henry VIII during the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century, a26 KB (3,960 words) - 19:31, 16 May 2012
- King William the Lion in the 12th century established a Royal Hunting Park in th In 1296, King John I, John Balliol, wrote a letter of surrender from the castle to Edward11 KB (1,747 words) - 12:58, 4 November 2016
- ...n of their country at length induced them to become lieges of the Scottish king. ...he district was cleared of the English and brought under allegiance to the king, when the lordship of Galloway was given to Edward Bruce. Later in the 14th17 KB (2,623 words) - 14:25, 19 January 2021
- ...945 the kingdom was conquered by Edmund, King of the English and ceded to King Malcolm of Scotland.<ref>{{ASC|Peterborough|945}} ''Her Eadmund cyning ofer15 KB (2,246 words) - 16:45, 23 May 2020
- The County of Lancaster was first recorded in 1168 under King Henry II. In 1267 Edmund Crouchback was created 1st Earl of Lancaster. On 6 ...ast docks from the Irish trade then the Atlantic and African trade routes. King John founded his new port at a marshy spot on the Mersey, at the point wher10 KB (1,426 words) - 19:03, 9 June 2023
- King Richard III was killed at the battle of Bosworth Field, in west Leicestersh13 KB (1,839 words) - 19:29, 31 May 2019
- ...it was County Coleraine, a county absorbed by the new creation. In 1613, King James I granted a charter to the The Honourable The Irish Society to undert ...November William of Orange began his march from [[Brixham]] to [[London]]. King James's Lord Lieutenant of Ireland sent a force to secure the garrison in L8 KB (1,158 words) - 10:44, 3 December 2015
- [[Harlech]] castle was built by King Edward I as part of his "Iron Ring" around the [[Snowdonia|Forest of Snowdo6 KB (908 words) - 20:29, 29 January 2016
- ...the Kingdom of [[Essex]]. In the 8th century, Middlesex was seized by the King of the [[Mercia]]ns. In 825, Middlesex, Essex, Sussex and Kent were all sei16 KB (2,522 words) - 17:27, 28 January 2023
- ...d on in the north until 1020, when the Lothians were ceded to the Scottish king, Malcolm II. The people of the Lothians, however, stipulated that they were16 KB (2,425 words) - 22:30, 21 March 2017
- ...t flourished for a period until the Columban church was expelled in 717 by King Nectan. Thereafter the district was given over to internecine strife betwee ..., in which Thorfinn Earl of Orkney overthrew a strong force of Scots under King Duncan, the consolidation of the kingdom was being gradually accomplished.14 KB (2,251 words) - 18:44, 5 January 2021
- ...e of Moray was shrunk by David I. The thane of Cawdor was constable of the king's castle at Nairn, and when the heritable sheriffdom was established toward7 KB (1,181 words) - 19:13, 5 January 2021
- ...hristian, took the baptismal name Athelstan and came to Norfolk to rule as King of the East Angles. *[[King's Lynn]], a port town on [[the Wash]]12 KB (1,922 words) - 18:28, 10 June 2019
- ...her than question the provenance of this conveniently discovered document, King Edgar confirmed the charter. This was the beginning of the separate jurisd ...60, during the Wars of the Roses, the Battle of Northampton was fought and King Henry VI was captured.<ref>Stearns, Peter N., Langer. William L.: The Encyc23 KB (3,176 words) - 19:27, 20 March 2024
- ...umberland became in 1603 not a shire on the edge but the heart of the land King James called "the [[Middle Shires]]". ...anhymbra rice'' or later ''Norþhymbraland''). Northumbria by the time of King Edwin stretched from the [[River Forth]] in the north to the [[Humber]] in22 KB (3,198 words) - 09:29, 2 March 2016
- ...r Nottingham; ''Tiguocobauc'' ("House of Caves").<ref>Asser: ''The Life of King Alfred''</ref>11 KB (1,644 words) - 18:44, 9 April 2019
- During the Roman invasion of Britain the "King of Orkney" was one of 11 British leaders who is said to have submitted to t ...hie notes the presence of an Orcadian ruler at the court of a Pictish high king at [[Inverness]] in 565 AD.<ref>Ritchie, Anna "The Picts" in Omand (2003) p51 KB (7,781 words) - 21:39, 29 January 2016
- ...with such peaks as Mount Maw (1,753 feet), Byrehope Mount (1,752 feet) and King Seat (1,521 feet). The lowest point of the shire is on the Tweed as it leav ...Roman withdrawal from Britain, little is known for certain. Legend places King Arthur at here, fighting at Cademuir in 530, but nothing is known. Tweedda7 KB (1,132 words) - 21:14, 12 September 2015
- ...s numerically superior army; the last battle of the Wars of the Roses. As King Henry VII he founded the Tudor dynasty which ruled England and Wales until ...ntre of the cross is red and white Tudor rose, to recall that Henry Tudor, King Henry VI, was born in the county, placed on a green pentagon. The rose is n19 KB (2,728 words) - 18:38, 10 June 2019
- ...o the English-speaking lands of the south. Nevertheless, up to the days of King Charles II, the Kings of Scots were crowned at Scone in Perthshire. Perth s King Edward I of England came to Perthshire and removed of the Coronation Stone13 KB (1,911 words) - 19:22, 16 April 2017
- ...ietly, for kings are recorded until the eleventh century. By the reign of King Malcolm III, the lands to become Renfrewshire became incorporated into Scot ...954, p.281</ref> but when her cause was lost, Walter befriended her uncle, King David I of Scotland, and became, David's ''Dapifer'' or Steward. Accompanie13 KB (1,942 words) - 08:55, 6 May 2022
- ...Ross, the earldom was again vested in the crown (1476). Five years later, King James III bestowed the earldom on his second son, James Stewart, whom he al ...ccording to tradition, mark the burial-place of the three sons of a Danish king who were shipwrecked off the coast of Nigg. The largest and handsomest of22 KB (3,583 words) - 09:40, 14 April 2018
- ...of the Tweed were ceded to the King of Scots. It was made shire ground by King Alexander I during his short reign in the early part of the twelfth century ...l the castle and town were finally captured for the Scots and destroyed by King James II.7 KB (1,062 words) - 07:52, 13 May 2022
- ...oyal hunting forest populated by the oak, birch and hazel and by red deer. King James V, however, would forego the sport to let the land for grazing, earni ...r, the Earl of Pembroke assumed the hereditary sheriffdom. Under and after King Robert I (Robert the Bruce), the Earls of Douglas, and later Earls of Angus7 KB (1,164 words) - 16:29, 6 May 2022
- ...under the Norwegian crown until 1468, when it was given to King James III King of Scots as a pledge for a dowry, which pledge was not redeemed. ...e earldom of Shetland and the islands are put directly under the Norwegian king Sverre Sigurdsson7 KB (1,053 words) - 12:58, 22 June 2015
- ...this time that lowland Powys was annexed to the Kingdom of the Mercians by King Wulfhere in, a moment recalled by the poetry of Llywarch Hen: In the next century King Offa fixed the border in the eighth century, building two significant dykes21 KB (3,153 words) - 16:33, 24 February 2022
- ...and. London: Phoenix House Ltd.</ref> At the same site during the reign of King Charles I, river tolls were levied on boats to pay for the maintenance of t ...med a boundary for a generation or two. By the early eighth century though King Ine of Wessex had pushed the boundaries of the West Saxon kingdom far enoug42 KB (6,548 words) - 10:39, 3 November 2016
- ...betwixt Avon and Carron, and Ine and Nuna his kinsman fought with Geraint King of the Welsh")</ref> though of the purpose of the battle and of rest of the ...rs in a charter of 1150 under the name ''Striuelinschire''.<ref>Charter by King David granting the church of Clackmannan, etc., to the Abbey of Stirling</r13 KB (2,078 words) - 19:21, 18 January 2021
- The place is assumed to be the burial place of an East Anglian king, possibly Rædwald the Bretwalda, thus placing his capital within this part10 KB (1,443 words) - 14:07, 12 April 2024
- ...ca of the Atrebates appealed for Roman help against the Catuvellauni under King Togodumnus who had subdued the Atrebates, which appeal led to the Roman inv ...uth Saxon control around 722, but by 784-5 it had passed into the hands of King Offa of Mercia. Mercian rule continued until 825.34 KB (5,328 words) - 17:09, 19 January 2021
- ...is Eoghan was, it is generally believed, ''Eógan mac Néill'', the son of king Niall of the Nine Hostages, and brother of Conall Gulban, who gave his name6 KB (809 words) - 21:44, 29 January 2016
- ...astern border is formed by [[Watling Street]], the old Roman Road which in King Alfred's day was established as the border between the English and the Dane12 KB (1,771 words) - 17:53, 3 July 2022
- ...Queen of Scots. The Palace was abandoned at the Union of the Crowns, the King removing himself to [[London]], and in 1746 it was used as a lodging by the13 KB (2,009 words) - 14:00, 30 May 2017
- ...of [[Flintshire]]. This was the first of a series of castles built during King Edward I's campaign to conquer [[Wales]].7 KB (1,187 words) - 12:18, 15 August 2014
- ...own little dale, now largely forgotten, once held the court of a powerful king, and at its head are ancient graves. The Eden finally leaves Westmorland so ...Britons against the incoming English. According to the poems of Taliesin, King Urien had a capital at Llywfenydd, identified as the [[River Lyvennet]] in11 KB (1,588 words) - 18:52, 22 February 2019
- ...these coasts, giving the name of Galloway. In the 12th century by Fergus, King of Galloway made Whithorn a bishop's seat once more, and it remained the se ...Kenneth Macalpine defeated the northern Picts at Forteviot and was crowned King of Alba at Scone in 844, uniting the two kingdoms of the Scots and Picts, a13 KB (2,064 words) - 14:08, 9 November 2015
- ...The Battle of [[Bedwyn]] was fought in 675 between Æscwine of Wessex and King Wulfhere of Mercia.<ref>{{cite book |last=Pearson |first=Michael |authorlin *[[King Alfred's Tower]]13 KB (1,870 words) - 13:20, 20 August 2020
- ...t remained within “English Mercia” under West Saxon overlordship until King Athelstan united the Kingdom of the English in the early tenth century, at12 KB (1,791 words) - 21:21, 28 February 2021
- The area of Yorkshire was unified under the name of the kingdom of Deira by King Edwin in AD 626.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://yorkshiredevolution.co.uk/the-f21 KB (3,184 words) - 20:45, 6 November 2023
- ...ter and spawned Brian Boru during this period, perhaps the most noted High King of Ireland. From 1118 onwards the Kingdom of Thomond was in place as its ow24 KB (3,510 words) - 13:29, 13 June 2017
- ...eaning ''The O'Donnell'' in English) and ''Rí Thír Chonaill'' (meaning ''King of Tír Chonaill'' in English). Based at Donegal Castle in ''Dún na nGall'16 KB (2,307 words) - 09:27, 19 December 2017
- County Dublin was one of the first of the parts of Ireland to be shired by King John in the century after the Norman invasion of Ireland. The population of ...eds'' (equivalent to cantreds) or the later baronies, and was ruled by the King at Tara.<ref>See Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, by the Four Masters (wri13 KB (1,870 words) - 22:25, 1 April 2021
- ...rd-level educational institutions – St. Patrick's College founded by King George III in 1795 to educate Ireland's Catholics and the National Universi13 KB (1,874 words) - 20:17, 29 January 2021
- ...he succession to Leinster. Richard and other Marcher barons and knights by King Henry assembled an army. The army, under Raymond le Gros, took [[Wexford]], ...monastery built in 1160 by Domnall Mac Gilla Patraic, [[Kingdom of Osraige|King of Osraige]].<ref>''Illustrated Dictionary of Irish History.'' Mac Annaidh,47 KB (6,906 words) - 10:14, 16 February 2019
- ...ry on the south-west side of the [[River Barrow]].<ref>"An Act whereby the King and Queen's Majesties, and the Heires and Successors of the Queen, be entit16 KB (2,332 words) - 09:56, 22 June 2017
- ...ht|thumb|The [[River Shannon]] runs through the city of [[Limerick]], with King John's Castle.]] ...land on the [[River Shannon]] in 922. The death of Domnall Mór Ua Briain, King of Munster in 1194 resulted in the invading Normans taking control of Limer16 KB (2,356 words) - 16:24, 31 January 2018
- File:King johns front shadow.jpg|Slive Foy and King John's Castle8 KB (1,182 words) - 22:36, 18 January 2015
- ...appealed to the King of England for help in his fight with a neighbouring king, the response of which was the arrival of the Anglo-Norman colonisation of ...religious beliefs, the Irish usually regarded the King of England as their King. When Queen Elizabeth I came to the throne in the mid-16th century, the En37 KB (5,694 words) - 17:16, 22 June 2017
- ...ounty Offaly|Offaly]] and [[County Kildare|Kildare]]. The seat of the High King of Ireland was at [[Hill of Tara|Tara]]. The archaeological complex of ''[[10 KB (1,546 words) - 22:37, 18 January 2015
- The '''County of Offaly''' otherwise '''King's County''' is a [[Counties of the Republic of Ireland|shire]] in the provi ...arliament of Ireland created "King's County", named after Philip, the then King of Ireland.<ref>3 & 4 Phil & Mar, c.2 (1556)</ref> This replaced the old Ki18 KB (2,691 words) - 14:19, 26 June 2017
- ...om of Connaught, those districts in the east retained by King John as "The King's Cantreds" covered County Roscommon, and parts of East [[County Galway|Gal11 KB (1,589 words) - 13:55, 23 June 2017
- ...1715–1733|year=1794|publisher=Printed by George Grierson, printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty|pages=5–11|chapter=2 George I c.8}}</ref>11 KB (1,828 words) - 22:37, 21 March 2017
- ...he Kingdom of Meath was subsumed into the Lordship of Meath and granted by King Henry II, in his capacity as Lord of Ireland, to Hugh de Lacy in 1172. Foll Image:Les_tours_Christ_le_Roi_Mullingar.jpg|[[Christ the King Cathedral, Mullingar]]10 KB (1,488 words) - 18:10, 10 December 2017
- ...in 1169 at the behest of Dermot MacMurrough, King of Uí Cheinnsealaig and king of Leinster, which led to the subsequent colonisation of the country by the27 KB (4,024 words) - 20:58, 25 June 2017
- :*The '''Kingdom of Ireland''' was Ireland for the period 1541-1801. (The King of Ireland remained Head of State in the Irish Free State and Ireland/Éire ...hen it seceded from the United Kingdom through the Anglo-Irish Treaty. The King ceased to be its Head of State in 1936 and the state ceased to be a Dominio53 KB (8,268 words) - 18:48, 5 January 2024
- ...nd in June 1292, he appealed to King Edward I who encouraged such appeals. King Edward agreed with the MacDonalds.<ref>Beam, Amanda The Political Ambitions6 KB (1,029 words) - 13:42, 2 March 2022
- ...ber of the Catholic Committee, which included Wolfe Tone, which petitioned King George II in 1793 on behalf of the Irish people.5 KB (838 words) - 14:28, 15 March 2021
