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• Whittington Castle
  ...y, pp. 110–111.</ref> For the next half century, the castle stood as a bastion defending Shropshire from invasion by the Welsh, until the conquest of Wale ...sent to the court of King Henry II (1154-1189), where he grew up with the king's younger son, the future King John (1199-1216). John became his enemy after
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• Ochil Hills
  ...bridging point on the River Forth, and the Ochil Hills provided a natural bastion at this strategic point: thus [[Stirling]] was the main gateway to the [[Hi
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• Earith
  .... During the Second World War, a machine gun turret was built on the south bastion.<ref>[http://www.fortified-places.com/earith/ ''Earith Bulwark'', Fortified
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• Royal Tunbridge Wells
  As Tunbridge Wells has a reputation as being a bastion of the middle class and a typical example of "Middle England", it has attra
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• Rye
  Rye, being part of the Cinque Ports Confederation and a bastion against invasion on the Channel Coast, has always had close links with the
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• Highlands
  ...y sovereigns on the own estates. They gave allegiance to the King but the King's peace barely applied. Clan warfare was constant and bloody and the chiefs ...urch of Scotland. [[Lewis]] and [[Harris]] have been described as the last bastion of Calvinism in Britain and the Sabbath remains widely observed. Inverness
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• Bass Rock
  ...ituation with good grace. George was a Privy Counsellor - described as the King's "familiar councillor" - and tutor to the young Prince Henry. A little beyond the entrance there is a tower that formed a simple bastion and to which has been added a gabled chamber in the 17th century, which, th
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• Fort Regent
  Along the top of the cliffs on the west side, between the West Bastion and Northwest Redan, is an 18-foot thick curtain wall that provided protect ...ne on the west, provides protection to bombardment from the east. The East Bastion and south redans are positioned behind this wall. The height of this rampar
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• Kilkenny
  ...Walls survive such as Talbot Tower (1207), which is also known as Talbot's Bastion or Castle. It is the larger of the two surviving towers of the defences of
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• Deal Castle
  The westernmost bastion is taller than the others and serves as a gatehouse. Originally, the moat w [[File:Deal Castle.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The western bastion or gatehouse]]
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• Dover Castle
  ...extra gun positions on the eastern side, and constructing the Constable's Bastion for additional protection on the west. Twiss further strengthened the Spur ...UMPY and E - Esplanade. Annexe and Casemate levels are open to the public, Bastion is 'lost' but investigations continue to gain access, DUMPY (converted from
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• Tower of London
  ...ear Wakefield Tower was a postern gate which allowed private access to the king's apartments. The innermost ward was originally surrounded by a protective di ...egge's Mount was built at the castle's north-west corner. Brass Mount, the bastion in the north-east corner, was a later addition. The three rectangular tower
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• Upnor Castle
  ...rey Locke and Richard Watts.<ref>Colvin, Howard, ed., ''The History of the King's Works'', vol. 4 part 2, HMSO (1982), 478.</ref> The building cost £3,621. ...w works was accepted. A timber palisade was placed in the river, the water bastion was raised to a greater height "with a parapet of good height" and an enclo
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• Edinburgh Castle
  ...s working under Borthwick, who by 1512 was appointed "master melter of the king's guns".<ref>Caldwell, pp.76–77</ref> Their output included guns for the Sc ...me=BoS85-86/> though afterwards refortifications included an earthen angle-bastion, known as the Spur, of the type known as ''trace italienne'', one of the ea
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• Blenheim Palace
  ...l of [[Eyemouth]] in 1682, and the following year appointed colonel of the King's Own Royal Regiment of Dragoons.<ref>Churchill: ''Marlborough: His Life and ...rl of Marlborough, sworn to the Privy Council, and made a Gentleman of the King's Bedchamber.
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• Hurst Castle
  ...tor of Customs at [[Cowes]], considered it necessary in 1783 to request "a King's cutter also in Hurst Road ... to keep off the large cutters from landing th ...as built and a new entrance to the castle was driven through the northeast bastion.<ref name="pastscape1"/> Around 1889 the magazine roof was reinforced with
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• Stirling Castle
  |picture caption=Stirling Castle, from the "King's Knot" gardens ...k Castle|Berwick]] castles were held by the English. Edward Bruce, the new king's brother, laid siege to Stirling, which was held by Sir Philip Mowbray. Mowb
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• Londonderry City Walls
  ...along the City Walls with the impressive Roaring Meg located on the double bastion.
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• Tilbury Fort
  The defences were fully rebuilt as a bastion fort in the late seventeenth century and it is the finest surviving example ...h as the imposing Water Gate were not complete until about 1682. The river bastion never materialised.<ref name=DLR /> The resulting structure was "a national
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• Yarmouth Castle
  ...lery guns and a garrison of 20 men. It featured an Italianate "arrow-head" bastion on its landward side; this was very different in style from the earlier cir ...illery fort built around a central courtyard with an angular, "arrow-head" bastion protecting the landward side. It was initially equipped with three cannons
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• King Charles's Castle
  ...rubble bank up to six feet high and 25 feet wide, with a bastion and demi-bastion at its corners and a ditch, up to {{convert|0.4|m|ft|1|x}} deep and 10 feet
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• Featherstone, Northumberland
  ...uarded, is encircled by the steep hills which rise from the river, and the bastion of Tynedale Fell. At some time before the year 1200 there was a castle at F
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• St Catherine's Castle
  ...|ft2|-1|x}} in size, incorporating slits for firing muskets. A rectangular bastion, {{convert|5.7|m|0|x}} by {{convert|3.2|m|0|x}} internally with wall two fe
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• Walmer Castle
  ...VIII in [[Walmer]], [[Kent]], between 1539 and 1540. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect against invasion from France and the Holy Roman ...ions towards the north bastion and constructing a small house in the south bastion for the soldiers. Under the subsequent Lord Wardens, the politicians Robert
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• Camber Castle
  ...central keep, surrounded by four circular bastions and a circular entrance bastion, built from stone and brick. ...a strategic chain of maritime towns responsible for providing ships to the king's navy, although Winchelsea's harbour had silted up by the 16th century, limi
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• Mountsorrel
  ...astion against King Stephen, and was subsequently destroyed in 1217 by the King's men from [[Nottingham]], branded ''a nest of the Devil and den of thieves a
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• Charles V Wall
  ...l remains largely intact and extends from [[South Bastion, Gibraltar|South Bastion]], which was once at the water's edge in the [[Gibraltar Harbour|harbour]], ...pierced by the Gate of Africa, which is defended from above by the [[Flat Bastion]].
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• Line Wall Curtain
  The Line Wall runs from the [[North Bastion, Gibraltar|North Bastion]] south along the western coast of the town to [[Engineer Battery]], just s ...[[Montagu Bastion|Montagu]], [[Orange Bastion|Orange]], King's and [[South Bastion, Gibraltar|South]] bastions, with the line wall curtain connecting these po
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• Kinsale
  ...d at [[Summer Cove]] and dating from 1677 in the reign of Charles II, is a bastion-fort that guards the entrance to Kinsale harbour. It was built to protect t
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• Eilean Donan
  ...7th century, the Earl of Seaforth sided with Charles I. In 1650, after the king's execution, the Parliament of Scotland ordered a garrison to Eilean Donan. T ...vered was a yett, an iron gate, probably installed in the east door to the bastion, but now on display inside the castle.<ref name=mr109>{{harvnb|Miket|Robert
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• Sandown Castle, Isle of Wight
  ...it had a square tower and two angular bastions on one side, and a circular bastion looking out to sea.<ref>{{harvnb|Harrington|2007|p=32}}</ref> The rear of t ...n, the castle did not feature the more fashionable Italianate "arrow-head" bastion design used at nearby [[Yarmouth Castle]] and has been critiqued by histori
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• Sandgate Castle
  ...ht 24-pounder guns along the outer wall, a gun on the roof of the southern bastion, and another on top of the keep itself. The new castle could hold a garriso ...se; B - north-west bastion, covered; C - magazine, covered; D - north-east bastion, exposed; E - keep; F - beach and sea-wall]]
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• Southsea Castle
  ...VIII on [[Portsea Island]], [[Hampshire]], in 1544. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect against invasion from France and the Holy Roman ...a 1577 plan; A - east gun platform; B - south bastion; C - keep; D - north bastion and bridge; E - west gun platform]]
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• Sandsfoot Castle
  ...by King Henry VIII near [[Weymouth]] in [[Dorset]]. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect against invasion from France and the Holy Roman ...feet deep between the top of the bank and the base of the ditch. The north bastion still survives largely intact, although the west has been mostly destroyed.
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• Cowes Castle
  ...of invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire, it comprised a circular bastion, flanking wings and a keep, and in 1547 it housed 17 pieces of artillery. W ...ern fortification, which became known as West Cowes Castle, had a D-shaped bastion at the front, a round, two-storey keep at the rear and two low buildings on
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• Shelford Priory
  ...e manor was described as "a fortified house surrounded by a very strong '[[Bastion|bulwark]]' and a great ditch on the outside of it partly filled with water"
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• Spike Island, County Cork
  ...of a monastic settlement, the island is today dominated by an 18th-century bastion fort now named '''Fort Mitchel'''. ...) took him up through the air in a fiery chariot until they arrived at the king's residence}}</ref> A grant to Saint Thomas's Abbey in Dublin in 1178 of the
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• Fordell Castle
  ...n in Barmkin Wall, Fordell Castle (geograph 5636259).jpg|right|thumb|200px|Bastion in Barmkin Wall]] ...ll, modified on the east side in the 19th century with castellations and a bastion.
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• Urris
  The Urris area was the last bastion on the [[Inishowen]] peninsula where the Irish language was spoken regularl
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• Magdalen College, Oxford
  ...dalen Bridge]] and the road from London, had tactical significance for the King's forces. From 1643 to 1645, Magdalen's Grove was occupied by the Royalist or ...or siege through Magdalen's grounds, including Dover's Speare (or Pier), a bastion that would have allowed observation to the north and east of the city. The
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• St Edmund Hall, Oxford
  ...Church and State. During the late 14th and early 15th centuries, it was a bastion of John Wycliffe's supporters, pejoratively referred to as Lollards.<ref na
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