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• Flint Castle
  |events=Welsh Wars <br />Civil War ...construction began almost immediately after Edward I began the First Welsh War in 1277.
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• Wiltshire
  In the 17th century English Civil War Wiltshire was largely Parliamentarian. The Battle of Roundway Down, a decis Information on civil parishes in Wiltshire is available at the [http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/comm
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• Worcestershire
  ...der West Saxon overlordship until King Athelstan united the Kingdom of the English in the early tenth century, at which time the shire itself seems to have be The last known English sheriff of the county before the Conquest was Cyneweard of Laughern, and th
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• County Cavan
  ===Civil parishes and townlands=== ...ed at trying to unsettle the Plantation only led to further plantations of English and Scottish settlers into the county and the beginnings of a thriving flax
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• County Clare
  ...rta]], [[Tulla Lower]] and [[Tulla Upper]]. These in turn are divided into civil parishes, which are divided into townlands. ...rish Free State. The conclusion of the pro-treaty, anti-treaty Irish Civil War confirmed its status — the state became the present republic in 1937.
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• County Cork
  ===Civil parishes and townlands=== There are 253 civil parishes in the county.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.logainm.ie/Viewer.asp
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• County Kerry
  ...d papal invasion force of James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald was besieged by the English forces and massacred. ...nd taken by English troops. Donal O'Sullivan Beare, in an effort to escape English retribution and to reach his allies in Ulster, marched all the clan's membe
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• County Limerick
  ...Geraldines, to revolt against English Rule in 1569. This sparked a savage war in Munster known as the Desmond Rebellions, during which the province was l ...ctory to the Irish. However the Treaty was subsequently dishonoured by the English and the city became known as the City of the Broken Treaty.
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• County Mayo
  ...sh at the Second Battle of Athenry in August 1316. They were frequently at war with their cousins, Clanricarde of [[Galway]], and in alliance with or agai ...ous pirate queen had close relationships with the English monarchy and the English kings and queens were welcome visitors to Irish shores. The Irish however,
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• County Sligo
  ...1585, but was not made a reality until after the chaos of the Nine Years' War had ended, in 1603. Its boundaries reflect the Ó Conchobhair Sligigh overl ...e, Corann and Cúl ó bhFionn. Each of these was subsequently made into an English-style barony, hence [[Barony of Carbury (County Sligo)|Carbury]], [[Tirerag
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• Whittington Castle
  ...y. This discovery was significant in that it proved the advanced state of English gardening habits in that age, in comparison with the known contemporary pra ...longer defensible and there is no evidence that it played any role in that war. In 1673, the castle (or rather the gatehouse) was let as a romantic dwell
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• Beaumaris
  ...f Anglesey, a new settlement King Edward entitled "Newborough". French and English masons were brought in to construct the castle itself and the walled town. ...also specifically prohibited Jews (who had been largely expelled from most English towns) from living in Beaumaris. A requirement that all trade in the immedi
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• Newport, Monmouthshire
  During the English Civil War in 1648 Oliver Cromwell's troops camped overnight on Christchurch Hill over The post-war years saw renewed prosperity, with Saint Woolos Cathedral (now Newport Cath
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• Littleport
  With an Old English name of ''Litelport'', the village was worth 17,000 eels a year to the Abbo Littleport was the site of the Littleport Riots of 1816 after war-weary veterans from the Battle of Waterloo had returned home, only to find
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• Youghal
  ...rald, 15th Earl of Desmond. Desmond had the town's garrison massacred, the English officials were hanged and his soldiers looted the townspeople. The down tow ...vernment in [[Munster]]. These men were arriving in Ireland at a time when English Royal administration was reasserting its power in Munster following the Des
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• Manchester
  ...ame possibly meaning "breast-like hill" from ''mamm'' ("breast"). The Old English name ''Mameceaster'' derives from the same root, with ''ceaster'' meaning " ...{cite book | title= Cromwell's major generals: godly government during the English Revolution | series= Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain
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• Reading
  ...e means "Reada's People"<ref>{{cite book |first=Kenneth|last=Cameron|title=English Place Names|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=1961|page=64|url=http://books.g ===Dissolution and war===
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• Bracknell
  ...land belonging to a man called Bracca".<ref>Mills, A.D: ''A Dictionary of English Place-Names'', page 46. Oxford University Press, 1991.</ref> An early form ...th of the Second World War. The site was originally a large village in the civil parish of Warfield. Very little of the original Bracknell is left. The loca
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• Windsor
  ...ospital) did not take place until c. 1170, following the The Anarchy|civil war of Stephen's reign. At about the same time, the present upper ward of the c ...rmy and the castle was garrisoned by Colonel Venn during the English Civil War. Despite its royal dependence, like many commercial centres, Windsor was a
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• Wokingham
  ...en built in the late 1940s as emergency housing following the Second World War. Norreys Avenue has a horseshoe shape and occupies the site of the demolish ...raids would involve the looting of livestock and trading goods and general civil unrest. Over thirty buildings were burnt down, accounting for nearly 20% of
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