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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
- ...Conqueror celebrated Easter at the Abbey and then left his son, the future King Henry I, to be educated there. ...nally belonged to the Guild of the Holy Cross, on the dissolution of which King Edward VI founded the almshouses instead, under its present name.20 KB (3,252 words) - 17:52, 19 May 2018
- ...Middlesex suburbs in the southbound direction before terminating at either King's Cross or Moorgate Station. Northbound, the railway connects Potters Bar ** King Charles the Martyr9 KB (1,401 words) - 17:30, 28 January 2023
- ...d. The earliest datable one is an outsize example commemorating a visit by King Edward IV in about 1470. The horseshoes hang upside-down: while this is gen ...either from Leicester to London St Pancras or from Peterborough to London King's Cross.8 KB (1,272 words) - 21:35, 28 August 2015
- ...the English garrison and the retaking of Aberdeen. The city was burned by King Edward III of England in 1336, but was rebuilt and extended, and called New ...ts at the end of the century with the main thoroughfares of George Street, King Street and Union Street all completed at the start of the next century.51 KB (7,818 words) - 20:24, 20 July 2017
- In 1592, Faithlie was renamed Fraserburgh by a charter of the Crown under King James VI. Sir Alexander Fraser was given permission to improve and govern t ...1605 General Assembly, being used again only for a short time in 1647 when King's College, Aberdeen temporarily relocated owing to an outbreak of plague.14 KB (2,095 words) - 21:41, 9 March 2016
- ...olar and missionary to China, was born in Huntly and educated there and at King's College Aberdeen before leaving to his first mission post in Malacca in 14 KB (556 words) - 10:25, 8 December 2015
- ...centre may be the oldest of its type yet discovered in Britain.<ref>Brown, King and Remfry, pp. 114–5.</ref> ...part of the Kingdom of [[Powys]], and later a marcher lordship.<ref>Brown, King and Remfry, 107-8</ref>11 KB (1,779 words) - 19:26, 29 June 2015
- ...ded by David of Huntingdon, Earl of the [[Garioch]], brother of Malcolm IV King of Scots, great-great-grandfather of Robert the Bruce who defeated the Comy In the 14th century, (during the reign of King Robert the Bruce) the Chapel at Polnar lost its importance and was doomed t12 KB (1,994 words) - 17:34, 3 November 2023
- ...urrounding areas, including the villages of [[Cuminestown]], [[Fyvie]] and King Edward attend the secondary school.3 KB (473 words) - 16:06, 16 October 2015
- ...pursuant to an Act passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George IV Intituled "An Act for taking an Account of the Population of Grea ...[[Cromer]], [[East Dereham]], [[Great Yarmouth]] (part), [[Hunstanton]], [[King's Lynn]]42 KB (4,225 words) - 13:21, 11 September 2023
- ...Vikings"), but the town itself began its development in 1295 when Edward I King of England, having conquered Wales, commissioned the building of Beaumaris ...ons in 818 but had been regained by [[Merfyn Frych]], [[Kingdom of Gwynedd|King of Gwynedd]], and remained a vital strategic settlement. To counter further6 KB (1,012 words) - 10:25, 16 February 2019
- ...ingdom. Under this feudal system, the residents worked small farms for the king. The rural nature of the settlement meant that the village had a population7 KB (1,007 words) - 09:04, 7 May 2012
- |name=King's Norton |picture=King's Norton - geograph.org.uk - 500579.jpg3 KB (458 words) - 07:08, 7 July 2016
- ...m an Anglo-Saxon princess, Wilburh, a daughter or close kinswoman of Penda King of the Mercians, and who is portrayed on the village sign.3 KB (457 words) - 18:34, 21 February 2016
- ...ers are noted, and in 1563 there were only 21 families. Under [[Charles II King of Great Britain|Charles II]], there were some 40 dwellings and 124 adults.5 KB (745 words) - 10:53, 11 October 2010
- ...to claim his bride, her wedding celebrations to Congal were underway. The King of Norway and his army tried to capture Taisie but in the subsequent battle8 KB (1,293 words) - 15:11, 28 September 2010
- ==King's Dike== '''{{map|TL240970|King's Dike}}''' is drainage channel in the [[Cambridgeshire]] fenland and a ham9 KB (1,374 words) - 19:05, 8 August 2015
- ...olos church was founded by Saint Gwynllyw, the patron saint of Newport and King of Gwynllwg. The church was certainly in existence by the 9th century and t ...olarship to Scotland. Lewis was awarded the Albert Medal for Lifesaving by King Edward VII in December 1909. A Wetherspoons pub in the city centre is named14 KB (2,169 words) - 14:28, 12 January 2021
- *Independent: [http://www.kingschurch-nelincs.org King's Church]9 KB (1,435 words) - 12:24, 2 April 2012
- ...infant daughter of the leader of the Meic Uilleim, who were descendants of King Duncan II, had her brains dashed out on Forfar market cross.8 KB (1,252 words) - 17:38, 12 July 2018
- The earldom of Dundee was granted by charter by King William to his younger brother, David (later Earl of Huntingdon) in the lat ...ing of Scots, the town becoming a royal burgh on the coronation of John as king in 1292.<ref name = "BarrowDundee"/> Burghal status was revoked during the17 KB (2,582 words) - 11:19, 18 July 2017
- ...to the priory of [[Lanercost]], and became appropriated to that monastery. King Edward VI granted the rectory of Grinsdale to Sir Thomas Dacre; the great t ...4: Cumberland (1816), pp. 100–109</ref> The elder line failed about King John's time, when the co-heiresses married Newton and Le-Sor. Newton's land4 KB (539 words) - 12:24, 18 July 2017
- ...England, giving consent for the marriage of Queen Margaret to Edward, the king's son], www.rps.ac.uk; retrieved 12 December 2008</ref>). In the Declaratio ...[[Kelso]] Abbey and consecrated in 1197, dedicated to Thomas Becket. The King is buried in its grounds.<ref name="Miller1860">18 KB (2,717 words) - 17:38, 29 January 2016
- ...s "What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me?".<ref>King James Bible, Psalm 116 Verse 12</ref> It is also translated as "In return f ...orse, which crest dates back to 1613, when [[James I King of Great Britain|King James I]] granted Belfast town status. The seal was used by Belfast merchan21 KB (3,245 words) - 15:45, 26 December 2019
- ...l Street, on a hill above the [[River Lagan]]. Its origin was in 1611 when King James I granted Sir Fulke Conway the lands of Killultagh in south western A4 KB (596 words) - 12:37, 30 March 2016
- ...ilt on land given to the Adair family by [[Charles I King of Great Britain|King Charles I]] in 1626, who granted the town the right to hold two annual fair ...orarily renamed "Kinhilstown" after the Adair's lands in Scotland. In 1626 King Charles I confirmed the grant of the Ballymena Estate to William Adair, giv5 KB (809 words) - 21:24, 6 March 2016
- ...oldest town and takes its name from Fergus Mór mac Eirc, the 6th century king of Dál Riata. ...las' Church. De Lacy was relieved of his command of the town in 1210, when King John himself arrived and placed the castle under royal authority. De Lacy e10 KB (1,444 words) - 17:44, 29 January 2016
- |picture caption= King's College Chapel seen from The Backs ...ted by the university's buildings; particularly towering Gothic triumph of King's College Chapel, St John's College Chapel and the more recent Cambridge Un4 KB (553 words) - 11:58, 24 January 2017
- ...en dedicated to her. Wendreda is believed to have been a daughter of Anna King of the East Angles (slain in 654) one of the first Christian Kings of East2 KB (373 words) - 12:43, 19 April 2018
- ...70, and confirmed by Edward the Confessor and Henry I to the abbot of Ely. King Henry established Ely as the seat of a bishop in 1107, creating the Isle of ...etters patent issued under the great seal and warrants to be issued in the king's name, but the bishop retained exclusive jurisdiction in civil and crimina2 KB (405 words) - 11:59, 13 May 2020
- ...r drunken monks had denied him hospitality. After punishing the monks, the king made his host the mayor of a newly founded village.<ref>Beare, Beryl, ''Eng11 KB (1,601 words) - 09:54, 3 September 2018
- An underground passage was said to run from the Old Manor house to King's College Chapel two miles away. It is said that a fiddler who offered to f3 KB (447 words) - 13:27, 27 January 2016
- ...Most of them are situated on [[King George Island (South Shetland Islands)|King George Island]], benefitting from the airfield of the Chilean base ''Eduard1 KB (209 words) - 06:27, 19 May 2022
- Jasper Tudor, the Lord of [[Abergavenny]] and uncle of King Henry VII, on 10 October 1490, made a grant of land to one John ap David, a6 KB (877 words) - 19:15, 10 March 2016
- ...bey|Abbey]] at [[Llantarnam]]. After the dissolution of the monasteries by King Henry VIII the Abbey was closed and was bought by a succession of wealthy l5 KB (764 words) - 12:29, 9 August 2019
- ...y British poet Taliesin, who wrote of a victory at ''Aeron'' by his patron King Urien of Rheged. ...by the [[River Ayr]]. Shortly afterwards, in 1205, [[William I of Scotland|King William the Lion]] created a burgh at Ayr. On April 26, 1315, the first [[6 KB (1,076 words) - 12:45, 27 January 2016
- ...the town. From Bruce it passed to his grandson Robert the Steward, future King Robert II of Scotland. ...ed conflict did not occur and many of the leaders changed sides and joined King Edward I.<ref>Simpson, Page 2</ref>10 KB (1,676 words) - 12:35, 9 August 2019
- ...extended considerably, and formal, planned developments sprung up, such as King Street, Portland Street, Saint Marnock Street. John Finnie Street was buil2 KB (349 words) - 17:28, 5 April 2011
- ...ding the Scottish coast for some time, and the Scots under [[Alexander III King of Scots|Alexander III]] had been following the fleet, attempting to interc ...ing Haakon in the Bishop's Palace in [[Kirkwall]] on [[Orkney]]. After the king's death his more lenient son Magnus VI agreed the Treaty of Perth in 1266,4 KB (690 words) - 10:12, 14 September 2010
- ...'Fowler to the King', the purpose of which was to supply wild-fowl to the King as required. The dwelling which came with the post was called Fowlertoun an8 KB (1,367 words) - 15:10, 28 September 2010
- ...12 carucates of land, three of which were held in tax to the Danegeld. The King held three carucates in demesne and three socmen with 40 villeins and six b2 KB (259 words) - 11:09, 1 September 2010
- ...e priory's endowment went towards the foundation of a free grammar school, King Henry VIII Grammar School, the site itself passing to the Gunter family. During the Civil War, prior to the siege of Raglan Castle in 1645, King Charles I visited Abergavenny and presided in person over the trial of Sir13 KB (2,023 words) - 13:10, 5 October 2015
- ...in Ireland. The first record of the walls is a charter of 1275, granted by King Edward I, for their repair and extension.9 KB (1,497 words) - 12:10, 2 August 2017
- King Edward VII Memorial Hospital is the Islands' main hospital, with doctors' p11 KB (1,786 words) - 19:04, 29 June 2022
- ...of the city, next to Piccadilly, its focuses on Mosley Street, Deansgate, King Street and Piccadilly. Spinningfields is a £1.5 billion mixed-use dev62 KB (9,049 words) - 15:49, 1 October 2017
- ...uth Atlantic. It is the best harbour on the island, consisting of a bay ([[King Edward Cove]]) within a bay ([[Cumberland East Bay]]). The site is quite sh *[[King Edward Point]]9 KB (1,356 words) - 17:31, 13 January 2023
- ...by the East India Company and named after James, Duke of York, the future King James II of Great Britain. It is built on igneous rock in a small enclave,3 KB (532 words) - 08:21, 9 July 2012
- | 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
- ...as incorporated by charters granted by Edmund de Mortimer, King Edward II, King Edward IV, and succeeding monarchs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.genuki.or ...Henry V. The Battle of Pwll Melyn was fought at Usk in 1405, at which the King's forces routed Glyndŵr with much slaughter. Three hundred rebels were ex7 KB (1,140 words) - 19:34, 21 October 2019
- ...ard de Strathewan in 1264, and in 1372 Royal Burgh status was conferred by King Robert II.<ref name="crammond"/>4 KB (633 words) - 15:11, 28 September 2010
- ...d on 4 January 871, the Battle of Reading took place, when an army lead by King Æthelræd and his brother Alfred sought unsuccessfully to breach the Danes ...'s first officer was open to dispute, with the Guild and, on occasion, the King referring to him as the [[Mayor]], whilst the Abbey continued to call him t21 KB (3,188 words) - 10:35, 27 July 2016
- ...rest and Catherine of Aragon was banished there until her divorce from the King was finalised. It was later the home of the Trumbulls, who were patrons of9 KB (1,426 words) - 12:27, 9 August 2019
- King Charles I met his children for the last time before his execution in 1649 a6 KB (837 words) - 17:27, 29 April 2017
- ...rtant Great Councils of State were noted as taking place at the castle and King Henry married his second wife there in 1121, after the 'White Ship' disaste ...nty by late the same century. Windsor was granted royal borough status by King Edward I's charter of 1277 which gave no new rights or privileges to Windso12 KB (1,924 words) - 14:51, 10 January 2020
- ...is a town in [[Berwickshire]]. It was created a burgh of barony in 1490 by King James IV, and is Berwickshire's [[county town]].4 KB (694 words) - 11:47, 11 October 2010
- ...appear that there was a new erection of it by the English in the reign of King Edward I of England.6 KB (930 words) - 09:50, 30 September 2017
- ...town for the surrounding agricultural region from the early Middle Ages. King Offa of Mercia was buried in the town in 796.<ref name=BEASE_133>Simon Keyn | accessdate = 2008-02-10}}</ref> In 919 King Edward the Elder built the town's first known fortress, on the south side o11 KB (1,644 words) - 16:54, 24 October 2015
- In return for his military services, King John granted Falkes de Breauté the manor of Luton, where he built a castle .../ref> The line was later extended to Welwyn and from 1860 direct trains to King's Cross, London ran. The Midland Railway was extended from Bedford to St Pa14 KB (2,215 words) - 12:51, 27 January 2016
- ...he time was personified in a thief called Dun. Wishing to capture Dun, the King stapled his ring to a post daring the robber to steal it. It was, and was s ...t at what is now called the Royal Palace Lodge Hotel on Church Street. The King used the residence as a base to hunt on the nearby lands.12 KB (1,789 words) - 12:19, 30 June 2017
- ...the [[Mercia]]n lands. In 2001 a gold coin bearing the name of Coenwulf, King of the Mercians, was discovered at Biggleswade on a footpath beside the [[R The town was granted a charter to hold a market during the reign of King John (1196–1216) and a market is still held in the market place in the ce8 KB (1,203 words) - 14:19, 7 July 2016
- In 1105 Tavistock received a royal charter from King Henry I granting the right to hold a market each Friday, which market has s In 1105 King Henry I granted the Abbey a royal charter to run a weekly "Pannier Market"19 KB (3,149 words) - 14:50, 27 January 2016
- ...supporter of King Edward I during his attempt to establish John Balliol as King of Scotland, although there is no evidence of any battle's having taken pla8 KB (1,356 words) - 22:05, 29 June 2020
- King Alexander II created Dingwall a royal burgh in 1226, and James IV renewed i4 KB (610 words) - 21:50, 23 June 2013
- There are four pubs in Ockley: Cricketer's Arms, Inn on the Green, King's Arms and Bryce's Restaurant (also known as the Old School House). In addi ...ac ked London. The main Viking force then advanced to ''Aclea'' where the King and Price Alfred defeated them with much slaughter.2 KB (373 words) - 21:51, 13 September 2010
- ...Rothesay'''. The practice of granting this title to the heir was begun by King Robert III, who regularly resided at Rothesay Castle, and first granted the5 KB (799 words) - 22:17, 21 July 2018
- ...and dominated by [[Caernarfon Castle]]. This great stone castle built by King Edward I of England stands on the shore, one of the most complete mediæval ...ony took place on 13 July 1911, with the royal family present. The future King Edward VIII was duly invested as Prince.6 KB (953 words) - 09:17, 30 January 2021
- ...lgrimage place for its shrine of Saint Osyth. At the Norman Conquest, the King took the manor of Aylesbury for himself, and it is listed as a royal manor ...favour at Napoleon's fall. Bourbon Street in Aylesbury is named after the king. Louis's wife, Marie Josephine of Savoy died at Hartwell in 1810 and is bur7 KB (1,085 words) - 13:49, 16 December 2015
- ...recorded that King Henry II "had bought land for the making of buildings". King John granted the manor of Benson and the town an manor of Henley to Robert The existing Thursday market, it is believed, was granted by a charter of King John. A market was certainly in existence by 1269, however, the jurors of t8 KB (1,331 words) - 09:17, 30 January 2021
- Conwy Castle and the town walls were built, on the instruction of King Edward I between 1283 and 1289, as part of his subjection of North Wales. T ...original site of Aberconwy Abbey, founded by Llywelyn the Great, but when King Edward I took the abbey site over, the monks were moved down the Conwy Vall4 KB (726 words) - 13:45, 28 November 2017
- Buckingham, despite its diminished status since King Henry's time, is a bustling small market town with much variety in its comm ...everal times by the fortune of war. In 914 the army of Edward the Elder, King of the English, encamped in Buckingham for four weeks, forcing local Danish5 KB (780 words) - 15:12, 17 February 2016
- ...and sister of King Harold II. After her death in 1075 the land passed to King William the Conqueror, who granted it to Geoffrey de Mandeville. * [http://www.kingschurchamersham.com/ King's Church]5 KB (833 words) - 21:38, 8 September 2014
- ...ire]]. Stony Stratford has held a market since 1194 by charter granted by King Richard I. The ''Rose and Crown Inn'' at Stratford is reputedly the last29 KB (4,444 words) - 18:50, 25 October 2022
- ** King John's Palace (Colnbrook) ...hough Upton, and a wood for 200 pigs, worth £15. During the 13th century, King Henry III had a palace at Cippenham. Parts of Upton Court were built in 13213 KB (1,973 words) - 20:38, 29 January 2021
- ...he will of Lady Ælfgifu, who has been identified with the former Queen of King Eadwig. She held an estate here which she bequeathed to Abingdon Abbey.<ref King Henry III granted the town a royal charter for a weekly market in 1257.13 KB (2,052 words) - 13:16, 27 January 2016
- ...an army among the Welsh and broke into Breconsmere and there captured the king's wife and some thirty-four men."</ref>6 KB (988 words) - 19:39, 21 October 2019
- Builth Castle was built under King Edward I, construction taking nearly five years in the 1270s. It replaced a ...n the United Kingdom bearing the cypher of King Edward VIII, the uncrowned king whose abdication in 1936 caused a constitutional crisis.8 KB (1,334 words) - 09:19, 30 January 2021
- ==="King of Hay-on-Wye"=== | title=Self-styled king of Hay sells up9 KB (1,447 words) - 16:40, 7 April 2018
- Talgarth was the royal residence of Brychan King of Brycheiniog in the 5th century AD. With three wives, 24 daughters and 22 According to legend, Talgarth was raided by King Gwynllyw in search of a bride. St. Gwendoline is believed to have bathed in10 KB (1,542 words) - 13:15, 27 January 2016
- ...rd unit of weight was brought in line with that of Thurso at the decree of King David II, a measure of the town’s economic importance. Old St Peter's Kir6 KB (1,024 words) - 12:09, 18 December 2011
- ...t of some kind continued to exist at Abergele into the thirteenth century; King Edward I is known to have briefly stayed there in December 1294 during his6 KB (977 words) - 19:05, 16 April 2017
- ...nmark with his new wife, Anne of Denmark. The trial took place in 1591 and King James was there himself. Sampson was tortured to confess and then burned at6 KB (1,051 words) - 18:20, 17 January 2018
- ...<ref>Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge, ''Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources'', (London: Penguin,1983)</ref> They9 KB (1,326 words) - 09:19, 30 January 2021
- ...n Fermanagh, were replaced by a Devonshire man, William Cole, appointed by King James I to build a settlement at Enniskillen. ...the town had grown significantly. During the conflict which resulted when King James II was deposed by his Protestant nephew William III, Enniskillen and6 KB (852 words) - 15:00, 2 November 2014
- Towards the end of the 11th century, King Malcolm III bought the land around the modern town to grant as a gift to th ...l independence was achieved by a charter for royal burgh status granted by King Charles II in 1644.26 KB (3,903 words) - 09:19, 30 January 2021
- ...e that a castle of the same name in mid-Wales was meant. Mold was taken by King Henry II in 1167, and recaptured by the Prince of Gwynedd in 1201. In 1241, * King's Christian Centre, Pendref Chapel, Bailey Hill8 KB (1,214 words) - 20:51, 4 June 2019
- The [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 states that ''Leominstre'' was the King's land and that it had belonged to Queen Edith. King Henry II bestowed the minster and its estates on Reading Abbey, which found5 KB (774 words) - 22:28, 24 September 2010
- ..., 1st Lord Hamilton, who was married to the Princess Mary, the daughter of King James II of Scotland.4 KB (689 words) - 19:04, 24 May 2020
- In 1536 King Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries. The townspeople reacted to the closu6 KB (950 words) - 20:28, 25 September 2010
- ...ars of Independence, the Scottish Crown Jewels were hidden there. In 1296, King Edward I of England took the castle only for William Wallace to claim it in9 KB (1,419 words) - 18:28, 18 October 2017
- 5 KB (692 words) - 13:55, 31 October 2014
- ...written references to Machynlleth is the royal charter granted in 1291 by King Edward I to Owen de la Pole, Lord of Powys, which gave him the right to hol ...e name "Royal House" is later, undoubtedly referring to the tradition that King Charles I stayed at the house in 1643.7 KB (1,142 words) - 17:42, 28 January 2016
- ...h of Scotland]] parish churches in Dalkeith, the other being St John's and King's Park Church.4 KB (665 words) - 09:19, 30 January 2021
- ...lary of Moray in 1190. It was created a royal burgh in the 12th century by King David I and by that time had a castle on top of the present day Lady Hill t In August 1040, King MacBeth's army defeated and killed King Duncan at Bothganowan (Pitgaveny), near Elgin (not quite the demise familia16 KB (2,641 words) - 12:08, 18 March 2021
- King James VI, when he travelled to London upon becoming King of England, boasted that in his kingdom he had a town whose only street was3 KB (533 words) - 22:27, 26 September 2010
- ...Gaelic period (1116), as ''Glasgu''. However, it is also recorded that the King of Strathclyde, Rhydderch Hael, welcomed Saint Kentigern (also known as Sai ...rms of the City of Glasgow was granted to the royal burgh by the Lord Lyon King of Arms on 25 October 1866.<ref>Urquhart, RM (1973) ''Scottish Burgh and Co33 KB (5,163 words) - 10:45, 30 March 2016
- ...h banking families made it their summer home. Visitors included the future King Edward VII, who played golf here. The resort's facilities included the late9 KB (1,463 words) - 11:54, 30 December 2017
- Huntingdon is a market town. It received its first charter from King John in 1205. It is known as the birthplace in 1599 of Oliver Cromwell.6 KB (930 words) - 10:05, 28 September 2010
- ...]]. This legend is commemorated in the Minster's baptistry window. In 956 King Eadwig gave a gift of land in Southwell to Oskytel, Archbishop of York, on Southwell is where King Charles the First was captured during the English Civil War. The fighting s16 KB (2,527 words) - 13:05, 2 October 2014
- In the days of King Henry II, Gerald of Wales, the chronicler and churchman, argued that St Dav5 KB (902 words) - 18:32, 9 March 2019
- ...'s subjects, no doubt frustrated by the trouble brought upon them by their king's repeatedly rebellions, cut his head off and sent it to Harold. It was in ...to lose it in 1215 to Giles de Braose, Bishop of Hereford. In August 1216 King John and Gwallter Clud, the brother of Einion o'r Porth, burned the castle9 KB (1,443 words) - 20:06, 28 January 2016
- ...ria Regum Britanniæ'', and Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote the ''Idylls of the King'' while staying in Caerleon. ==Legend of King Arthur==13 KB (2,035 words) - 17:30, 28 January 2016
- ...which name he defeated and slew Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth. As King Henry VII he founded Richmond Palace at Sheen in [[Surrey]] and thus gave t6 KB (985 words) - 23:33, 3 December 2015
- ...Stenton</ref> "Lothian" (the lands north of the Tweed) were ceded to the King of Scots in the early eleventh century but Jedburgh lies some miles south o King David I of Scotland made the church into a priory between 1118 and 1138, ho8 KB (1,340 words) - 09:20, 30 January 2021
- ...ever the community of Tironensian monks moved to Kelso during the reign of King David I. William Wallace, was declared guardian of Scotland in Selkirk. " ...a peaceful union through marriage, and found occasion to declare that the King of Scots had forfeited his crown for disloyalty to his sovereign, and took6 KB (992 words) - 22:44, 30 September 2010
- ...o the Civil War, when it was besieged. Due to its proximity to Oxford, the King's capital, Banbury was a Royalist town, but the inhabitants were known to b6 KB (878 words) - 18:14, 28 January 2018
- ...hes and a temporary home to several Princes of Wales, including the future King Edward IV and Arthur Tudor, who died there in 1502 at the age of 15. ...the prince heard the news of his father's death and was himself proclaimed King Edward V of England.13 KB (2,098 words) - 11:35, 5 October 2010
- *Simon King, Gillingham F.C. footballer, born in Witney and attended Henry Box School.16 KB (2,469 words) - 12:48, 29 December 2018
- ...railway opened, linking Chipping Norton to the Oxford and Rugby Railway at King's Sutton, and the CNR became part of the resulting Banbury and Cheltenham D8 KB (1,218 words) - 21:19, 14 November 2010
- Edward, the Black Prince, elder son of King Edward III and heir apparent, prince of Aquitaine and Wales, Duke of Cornwa ...aphy of Anglo-Saxon England]''. In the 17th century Robert Plot wrote that King Alfred stayed at Woodstock about the year 890 when he translated Boethius'10 KB (1,558 words) - 19:57, 26 May 2015
- ...was around this time the [[Staffordshire|county of Stafford]] was formed. King Alfred's son Edward, with the crucial aid of Æþelflæd finally conquered In 1206, King John granted a Royal Charter which created the Borough of Stafford. On 31 M8 KB (1,350 words) - 19:40, 16 March 2015
- ...f the mediæval Kingdom of Scotland, Stirling was created a Royal burgh by King David I in 1130. In 2002, as part of Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee, S ...origin of the name "Stirling" is uncertain. It appears in the charters of King Davis as "Striuelyn" or "Striuelin". Folk etymology suggests that it origi9 KB (1,457 words) - 14:26, 30 March 2016
- ...t as being the 'former capital of East Anglia',<ref>{{cite book |title=The King's England: Suffolk |first=Arthur |last=Mee |pages=124–128}}</ref> perhaps12 KB (2,011 words) - 19:57, 5 October 2010
- ...the name of a local lord sharing a name with the famous Horsa, the Jutish King in Kent. ...sult&resnum=6&ct=result A Handbook for Travellers in Sussex and Kent, R.J. King, John Murray, London, 1858]</ref> The family later represented Horsham in P12 KB (2,014 words) - 12:47, 5 February 2019
- **Church of Christ the King5 KB (756 words) - 10:31, 4 October 2016
- ...ction of Linlithgow is the remains of Linlithgow Palace, the birthplace of King James V and Mary, Queen of Scots, and probably Scotland's finest surviving7 KB (1,172 words) - 14:35, 18 July 2014
- ...ket Place became the commercial centre for agriculture and the wool trade. King James II granted a further charter allowing the town to collect tolls.<ref>5 KB (763 words) - 21:51, 5 September 2014
- ...s that the burgh may also have been recognised as such during the reign of King Alexander III. King David II in 1341 granted the royal burgh to Sir Malcom Fleming. In 1372 Wig21 KB (3,513 words) - 16:21, 29 January 2016
- ...stablished by the 6th century and the first royal charter being granted by King David I in the 12th century. ...ulate armorial bearings for the City of Inverness was refused by Lord Lyon King of Arms on the grounds that there is no legal persona to which arms can be23 KB (3,509 words) - 19:27, 24 September 2018
- ...of 1086 as ''Merleberge''. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that in 1110 King Henry I held his court at Marlborough (''æt Mærlebeorge'') at Easter.<ref ...pennies. The coins display the name of the town as Maerlebi or Maerleber. King William I established the neighbouring [[Savernake Forest]] as a favourite10 KB (1,564 words) - 16:27, 29 January 2016
- * King Edward VII Park, also 26 acres, established in 1914 behind the High Road an ...a's meadow". The name was first mentioned in the charter of 825 granted by King Beornwulf of the Mercians.10 KB (1,602 words) - 18:54, 18 September 2020
- Liverpool was founded as a borough by King John in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880. Liverpool is the fourth l ...00. The original street plan of Liverpool is said to have been designed by King John at the time of its foundation as a borough. The original seven streets56 KB (8,428 words) - 11:13, 27 June 2016
- ...ge was blown up by the orders of Oliver Cromwell to deny a crossing to the King's forces. The missing section was replaced long after the war had finished ...way after Oliver Cromwell blew them up in the English Civil War to prevent King Charles I's troops approaching London from the Royalist base in [[Lincolnsh9 KB (1,466 words) - 14:40, 5 June 2016
- Esher first appears in writing in a charter of King Ethelred I of 911, as ''Æsceron''. In the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 it is ...e King of the Belgians. Queen Victoria lent the house to the exiled French King Louis-Philippe and his consort Queen Marie-Amalie after the revolution of 16 KB (1,029 words) - 23:10, 4 June 2011
- ...believed that the English inhabitation of Exeter began at some time after King Cenwalh of the West Saxons defeated the Britons at the Battle of "Peonnum" ...e="HOS23">Hoskins 2004, p.23</ref> rather uncharacteristic of Athelstan, a king known for his partiality to the Welsh. No more is known of this incident.23 KB (3,760 words) - 22:04, 22 March 2018
- ...feated by the townsfolk.<ref name="civilwar"/> At the Restoration in 1660, King Charles II who imprisoned many of the Parliamentary partisans on Drake's Is ...he few churches in Britain whose dedication is to Charles King and Martyr (King Charles I).30 KB (4,675 words) - 16:43, 2 April 2016
- The village was established as a new ''burh'', one of the four which King Alfred established in Devon. It first appears in recorded history in 997, w ...edication of the parish church to St Petrock would suggest a foundation by King Athelstan, who favoured Cornish and Welsh saints, or an earlier Cornish set9 KB (1,465 words) - 21:13, 27 October 2010
- In 1625, King Charles I stayed at the house overnight on his way to inspect the fleet at18 KB (2,993 words) - 14:27, 27 January 2016
- ...[Domesday Book]] of 1086, in which it appears as ''Tovretone'''. In 1106, King Henry I had Tiverton Castle built, originally as a motte and bailey type, t8 KB (1,245 words) - 20:32, 28 October 2010
- ...biography">Agatha Christie (1977), ''Autobiography''</ref> Beatrix Potter, King George V and the Emperor Haile Selassie who was so impressed with his visit16 KB (2,556 words) - 10:38, 4 July 2019
- ...wn derives its name and early growth to the building of Richmond Palace by King Henry VI in the early 16th century, and its nineteenth century expansion to ...ng pools, two Royal Mid-Surrey golf courses, and the Grade I listed former King's Observatory erected for George III in 1769.14 KB (2,335 words) - 09:48, 23 April 2017
- ...ellent than could be done in any other way. His method was employed on the King's behalf.<ref>John William Willis-Bund. ''The Civil War In Worcestershire,19 KB (3,051 words) - 07:41, 3 November 2017
- In [[Domesday Book]], Wallington is recorded as belonging to the King. Its assets were 11 hides. It had 2 mills, worth £1 10s 0d, 11 ploughs, 84 KB (714 words) - 17:46, 3 November 2010
- ...: the church bells were rung several times in 1670, for instance, when the King Charles II and Queen Catherine journeyed through Staines.<ref name="ref1">' * King’s Church8 KB (1,228 words) - 22:28, 8 January 2024
- ...that a battle was fought here between Cæsar's forces and Cassivellaunus, King of the Trinovantes.<ref>[http://www.thomaslayton.org.uk/joomla/index.php?op ...ikely site of a battle recorded by Julius Cæsar between Julius Cæsar and King Cassivellaunus.15 KB (2,373 words) - 14:51, 10 January 2020
- ...ce chamber at Enfield, on his knees to make formal obeisance to the boy as King. After her accession in turn, Good Queen Bess held court there. Palace Gar The [[New River]] was built in the reign of King James I to supply water to [[London]] from [[Great Amwell]] in [[Hertfords5 KB (845 words) - 20:49, 15 January 2017
- ...e [[City of London]]. The name was soon attributed to the area about it. King Edward’s abbey is now the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, o ...f the [[River Tyburn]] and the Thames. Westminster Abbey was built here by King Edward the Confessor and consecrated just a few days before his death in 109 KB (1,450 words) - 12:40, 20 March 2018
- [[File:Stmarysacton2.jpg|thumb|St Mary's Church, King Street, Acton Central]]18 KB (2,895 words) - 09:21, 30 January 2021
- ...dents a local place of worship. The land was granted by Edward III, on the King's highway, thus beginning a tradition of ''island'' church building. Bow wa15 KB (2,423 words) - 16:53, 3 July 2022
- The justices' records report that until King James's time the justices of Middlesex met at inns in Clerkenwell. Immedia In 1610 King James I gave the justices of Middlesex a plot on which to build a new sessi12 KB (1,945 words) - 21:39, 8 May 2014
- ...usly used for brick-making. The park opened on 24 June 1939 to commemorate King George V's Silver Jubilee in 1935. Facilities include, the '''Henry Barrass30 KB (4,660 words) - 11:46, 21 April 2017
- Early records of Hampstead can be found in a grant by King Ethelred the Unready to the monastery of St. Peter's at Westminster (AD 9866 KB (809 words) - 20:08, 4 July 2022
- ..., Hampton Court. The Palace is a magnificent Tudor royal palace, at heart King Henry VIII's but added to skilfully by later kings. Hampton Court Park and2 KB (251 words) - 21:42, 1 December 2017
- ...ur years. At the Restoration in 1660, the man of the Inner Temple welcomed King Charles II back to London personally with a lavish banquet. The history of the Inner Temple begins in the early years of the reign of King Henry II (1154–1189), when the contingent of Knights Templar in London mo35 KB (5,565 words) - 17:21, 25 October 2017
- ...ve rectory (which had glebelands). This lasted for 150 years, then in 1543 King Henry VIII exchanged with Winchester certain manors elsewhere for five chur ...vereux, 1st Earl of Essex, who later received a grant of the freehold from King James I in 1604.<ref>Victoria County History, A History of the Co. of Middl32 KB (5,049 words) - 12:42, 23 January 2020
- ...uthor=T F T Baker, J S Cockburn, R B Pugh (Editors), Diane K Bolton, H P F King, Gillian Wyld, D C Yaxley |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year ...cluding the area laid down in 1929 as '''Haste Hill Golf Course''' (1927), King's College Fields between Park Avenue and the Pinn (1938), Poors Field betwe18 KB (2,707 words) - 08:59, 20 April 2017
- ...arishes of Ruislip and [[Ickenham]] belonged to Wlward Wit, a thane of the king, who owned land in 11 counties. Wit lost much of his land during the Norman Wulfward Wight, a thane of King Edward's, held this manor; he could sell it to whom he would.<ref>Morris 1923 KB (3,664 words) - 19:27, 9 November 2016
- ...of the Royal Arms of Portugal and memorials to Manuel II, Portugal's last king, who worshipped here and died in nearby Fulwell Park in 1932.20 KB (3,137 words) - 18:03, 21 April 2020
- ...ken place in and around the town, including attempted negotiations between King Charles I and the Parliamentary Army during the Civil War. The public house ...gotiations for the end of hostilities were unsuccessful due in part to the king's stubborn attitude.<ref name="Cotton p.23"/> The town had been chosen as i32 KB (4,924 words) - 10:50, 28 July 2016
- ...2). The borough was granted city status by letters patent in 1925, and the King authorised the appointment of a Lord Mayor from 1928.20 KB (3,037 words) - 18:14, 28 September 2021
- ==King's Hall== ...including the Lord Mayor's Parlour combined with all the facilities of the King's Hall for the city's formal entertainment.6 KB (912 words) - 09:10, 14 August 2014
- An ancient borough, Leek was granted its royal charter in 1214, when King John granted Ranulph de Blundeville, Earl of Chester, the right to hold a w7 KB (1,046 words) - 23:02, 6 November 2010
- ...hermitage at Ramsey. It received a series of substantial grants of land by King Edgar who confirmed all the privileges in 975. The abbey experienced the tr A weekly market was probably held by 1200. The grant was confirmed by King Henry III in 1267 who also granted a fair on the vigil and feast of the Tra11 KB (1,827 words) - 18:58, 27 January 2016
- ...lone saw a further assault by a larger allied force in which the forces of King William and Queen Mary eventually overran the entire city, forcing the defe7 KB (1,143 words) - 09:06, 26 June 2017
- ...name from ''Wulfereēantūn'' = "Wulfhere's high estate" after the Mercian King.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/articles/Histor A local tradition states that King Wulfhere of Mercia founded an abbey of St Mary at Wolverhampton in 659 but20 KB (3,068 words) - 08:49, 1 July 2016
- ...er days lasted until the union of the crowns of Scotland and England under King James VI and I, who placed both sides of the border under single management5 KB (864 words) - 20:00, 7 June 2016
- There are three smaller villages which are near to Rainford; King's Moss to the east, Crawford to the north-east and Crank to the south-east.4 KB (694 words) - 21:27, 14 November 2010
- ...[[Domesday Book]] of 1086 it is listed as ''Wochinges'', being held by the King, Walter FitzOther, constable of [[Windsor Castle]], and Ansgot and Godfrey3 KB (549 words) - 12:38, 22 July 2022
- ...was a settlement was called ''Cennrigmonaid'' (Old Irish for "head of the King's ''monad''") for the memory of Túathalán, abbot of "Cennrígmonaid" arou A parliament met in the town was in 1304, when King Edward I came to be received by Bishop William de Lamberton as overlordship15 KB (2,380 words) - 13:36, 20 April 2016
- ...thority over all the bishops from the Humber to the Thames. However, after King Offa's death in 796, Lichfield's power waned and in 803 the primacy was res ...illage. The lord of the manor was the bishop of Chester until the reign of King Edward VI.19 KB (3,067 words) - 13:17, 22 December 2018
- ...ick was played, according to the ''Orkneyinga Saga'', by the legendary sea-king Beiti to claim a peninsula at Namdalseid in Norway.) ...Malcolm, but this would in fact have been at the beginning of the reign of King Edgar of Scotland<ref>Woolf, Alex "The Age of the Sea-Kings: 900-1300" in O9 KB (1,436 words) - 20:33, 13 December 2016
- ...ing manor rented three fisheries in the Thames.<ref name=vec/> In 1257 the king ordered the Bishop whoever it may be from time to time (sede vacante) to pr22 KB (3,414 words) - 18:43, 26 August 2022
- ...e village one mile inland. It is thus styled in a royal charter granted by King Henry VIII, but by Elizabeth I's time, the town was invariably named "Abery ...Many properties on the seafront were damaged, with every property from the King's Hall north affected, those on Victoria Terrace having suffered the greate13 KB (2,025 words) - 16:48, 19 June 2018
- ...den Phillpotts, Beatrice Chase, Agatha Christie, Rosamunde Pilcher, Laurie King, and the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould.25 KB (3,925 words) - 17:57, 9 April 2019
- ...the locality is associated with a battle in the early Middle Ages between King Ynyr of [[Gwent]] and the incoming Saxons. ...It is also associated with Dafydd Gam, a local warrior and Welsh ally of King Henry V.2 KB (334 words) - 17:33, 28 January 2016
- King Henry VIII had two Device Forts built to protect the south Dorset coast fro ...mington. The horse faces away from the town, and a myth developed that the king took offence, believing it was a sign that the townspeople did not welcome22 KB (3,303 words) - 18:55, 4 September 2018
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- ...n Stokenchurch is The King's Hotel (formerly The King's Arms Hotel), where King Charles II is reputed to have stayed in the 17th century. There is a paris6 KB (872 words) - 19:47, 28 January 2016
- ...harter, the document was only granted in on 2 March 1607 by her successor, King James I, although the borough and its corporation had already been in exist13 KB (1,980 words) - 12:57, 28 December 2017
- ...mention of golf refers to Leith Links. The Town Council, at the request of King James II, banned "gauf" (golf) and "fussball" (football) in 1457 to stop th ...d Ship Hotel and King's Landing'' was then given its new name, to mark the King's arrival by ship's boat at Leith ''Shore'' for this event, which is rememb12 KB (1,943 words) - 16:57, 28 January 2016
- ...ht during the Nine Years' War. The battle ended an attempt by the deposed King James II & VII to return and it re-established English naval supremacy in t8 KB (1,301 words) - 19:17, 18 May 2023
- ==King's Sedgemoor Drain== ...the [[Sowy River]], runs from Monks Leaze Clyse below [[Langport]] to the King's Sedgemoor Drain near Westonzoyland Airfield.10 KB (1,574 words) - 00:25, 4 December 2010
- ....10</ref> The Manhood was founded when the local Saxon Cædwalla of Wessex|King Cædwalla granted Wilfrid 87 hides of land in AD683, to build a monastery.< ...assess how much everyone had to pay, a clerk and a knight were sent by the king to each county, they sat with the sheriff of the county and a select group11 KB (1,729 words) - 11:23, 20 December 2019
- ...subject to several theories and legends. Many claim that its name is from King Arthur, and look to references to Arthur in the Early Mediaeval Old Welsh p ...Edinburgh's castle rock. The poem includes a simile comparing a warrior to King Arthur which (if not a later addition) may be one of the earliest reference5 KB (887 words) - 12:21, 10 March 2017
- ...kesnail.org.uk/ Shakespeare's School - Stratford-upon-Avon] The history of King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon16 KB (2,471 words) - 11:25, 20 November 2015
- .../1587005</ref> Others hold that the name comes from the English king Edwin King the Northumbrians, making it ''Edwinesburh'' ("Edwin's fort"), and that th The Norse kingdom was finally, permanently banished by King Eadred in 954, but by this time the position of the northern English had be44 KB (6,856 words) - 10:36, 30 March 2016
- All of Geoffrey's lands had been held in King Edward's time freely by Leofwin. Geoffrey's wife was called Aelfeva and her ...fter his death. In 1625, it was assigned to Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I.8 KB (1,252 words) - 14:08, 8 December 2010
- ...possibly by Cadwgan ap Bleddyn, and it remained as such until the reign of King Henry VII (1485–1509). ...n nearby Dinas Mawddwy, has been claimed as the site of the last battle of King Arthur (based on a mention of the name in the ''Annales Cambriae''; see als11 KB (1,711 words) - 20:45, 13 December 2010
- ...12th century.{{sfn|Crossley|1983|pp=81–120}} One of the Hundred Rolls of King Edward I from 1275–76 records Deddington as a borough.{{sfn|Colvin|1963|p ...n.{{sfn|Rose|2002|p=190}} Pembroke had guaranteed Gaveston's safety to the king on pain of forfeiting his lands, but he left Gaveston at Deddington and wen27 KB (4,239 words) - 14:24, 29 December 2018
- According to some variants of the legend of King Arthur, Merlin was born in a cave outside Carmarthen, with some noting that ==Pont King Morgan==11 KB (1,827 words) - 19:30, 16 December 2010
- ...Normans and Welsh until the reign of King Edward I. The castle was used by King Henry IV while on a sortie into Wales when he executed Llywelyn ap Gruffydd ...of leading them to a secret rebel camp and an ambush of Glyndŵr's forces. King Henry lost patience with him, exposed the charade and had him half hanged,5 KB (763 words) - 11:00, 13 July 2017
- In the early 12th century, grants of lands were made to Flemings by King Henry I when their country was flooded, and later they were joined by Flemi ...Parliament by General William Laugharne, who subsequently reverted to the king's side; Oliver Cromwell lay siege to the castle, burning and leaving it in7 KB (1,109 words) - 13:33, 27 January 2016
- ...Macclesfield was granted a borough charter by the Lord Edward, the future King [[Edward I of England|Edward I]], in 1261. There is evidence that the borou * The King's School, Macclesfield dates from the 16th century.9 KB (1,451 words) - 13:38, 27 January 2016
- |picture caption=King Street ...wn as Bottom Street), form the "hub" of the town. At one end of the narrow King Street is an entrance to Tatton Park. The Tatton estate was home to the Ege7 KB (1,082 words) - 13:37, 27 January 2016
- ...but a fair parish church, a parsonage and a few scattered tenements".<ref>King, Daniel, ''The Vale Royal of England'', 1656 (quoted in {{Harvnb|Starkey|1920 KB (3,117 words) - 22:58, 17 December 2010
- ...in 1172–3. There is an incorrect local tradition that Geoffrey was the king's son, Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany, who was one of the rebels.<ref>See De17 KB (2,581 words) - 13:41, 27 January 2016
- ...is now almost entirely housing, although there is a small shopping area on King Street.12 KB (1,856 words) - 13:41, 27 January 2016
- ...throw King Henry; Warbeck was proclaimed King Richard IV in Bodmin but the King had little difficulty crushing the uprising. ...rose once again in the Prayer Book Rebellion when the staunchly Protestant King Edward VI imposed a new Book of Common Prayer. Cornishmen still attached t11 KB (1,827 words) - 17:20, 6 September 2014
- ...12th century by Richard de Luci, Chief Justice of England in the reign of King Henry II, who was granted land in Cornwall for his services to the court, i ...vil War in the 17th century, Truro raised a sizable force to fight for the King and a royalist mint was set up in the town. However Parliamentary troops ca15 KB (2,387 words) - 14:57, 30 March 2016
- [[File:King Charles Church Falmouth.JPG|thumb|right|Church of King Charles the Martyr]] The parish church is the Church of King Charles the Martyr, a rare dedication.11 KB (1,737 words) - 16:58, 7 November 2012
- ...l, 1877, in ''Cornish Church Guide''</ref> Arthur Mee in his ''Cornwall'' (King's England) describes the perpetual light maintained in the church as a memo14 KB (2,211 words) - 13:57, 27 January 2016
- ...he Wolf Gate, and passing a series of structures, namely Phoenix Tower (or King Charles' Tower), Morgan's Mount, the Goblin Tower (or Pemberton's Parlour),26 KB (4,008 words) - 08:16, 6 June 2019
- ...in F Latham, the Penzance Borough Engineer and opened in 1935, the year of King George V's Silver Jubilee.<ref>Janet Smith; ''Liquid Assets - the lidos and ...while Penzance is not, and Marazion received its charter much earlier, for King Henry III in 1257. In mediaeval times and later, Penzance was subject to fr23 KB (3,808 words) - 13:57, 27 January 2016
- ...the Pillars of Hercules. The first reference to Gibraltar in English is in King Alfred's translation of the ''History'' of Paulus Orosius, in which it is n After the conquest, King Henry IV of Castile assumed the title King of Gibraltar, establishing it as part of the municipal area of the Campo Ll35 KB (5,292 words) - 14:35, 6 April 2020
- ...by King William II and served as a military castle until the accession of King James I, when it became redundant. ...by King William II and served as a military castle until the accession of King James I, when it became redundant. It remains relatively intact, once serv13 KB (2,021 words) - 10:33, 16 February 2019
- Brampton received a royal charter from King Henry III in 1252 entitling the town to a market, which is held in the mark ...ting it to hold a market, and markets have been held ever since. In 1606 King James I granted a new charter, a copy of which is at the Moot Hall. In addi6 KB (942 words) - 22:49, 23 December 2010
- ...he "Giant's Grave". It is said that the Giant's Thumb was erected by Owen King of Strathclyde who ruled in the area between 920 an 937, as a memorial to h *King's Church Eden [http://www.kingschurcheden.co.uk/] - part of the Newfrontie6 KB (982 words) - 14:07, 27 January 2016
- |picture=King Street - geograph.org.uk - 470948.jpg |picture caption=King Street11 KB (1,851 words) - 10:17, 22 December 2018
- ...hbours were much prone to conscription of soldiers to fight in the north. King Edward I also conscripted the ships of Workington for his campaigns. The occupation of the site is believed to have begun some time after King William II (Rufus) moved north and the lands were given to Ketel.<ref>Byers14 KB (2,173 words) - 14:10, 27 January 2016
- ...town ''Jamestown'', in honour of the Duke of York and heir apparent, later King James II.7 KB (1,098 words) - 23:05, 5 April 2020
- ...King James I and VI to colonise Virginia after two previous failures. The King granted a Royal Charter to the Virginia Company and in 1609, a company flee In 1649, the end of the English Civil War and the death of King Charles I began a Bermudian civil war, which was ended by militias. This cr20 KB (3,116 words) - 23:39, 5 April 2020
- ..."oak-wood of St Columba". In 1613, the city was granted a Royal Charter by King James I and in recognition of the contribution of the [[City of London]] li ...and documented history, the site was granted to Columba by a local Ulster king.<ref>{{cite web19 KB (2,922 words) - 11:09, 28 July 2022
- ...34, she later married Capt. Robert Bruce Pollock and emigrated to the USA. King James II dined at Cavanacor House on his way to the Siege of Derry in 1689.4 KB (662 words) - 22:36, 8 December 2016
- ...e though ancient traditions have the O'Donnells descended from the line of King Miles of Spain, the mythical progenitor of the Milesians who in Irish myth5 KB (756 words) - 18:04, 3 October 2016
- ...member), and then into the possession of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick. King Richard III inherited it through his wife, Anne Neville, but it fell into r Charles Dickens and his illustrator Hablot Browne (“Phiz”) stayed at the King's Head in Barnard Castle while researching his novel ''Nicholas Nickleby''5 KB (801 words) - 16:19, 2 January 2011
- .... During thew dispute between Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and King Henry II, Becket escaped from Northampton Castle through the unguarded Nort In 1189 King Richard I gave the town its first charter. In 1215 King John authorised the appointment of William Tilly as the town's first Mayor11 KB (1,736 words) - 11:57, 8 April 2021
- ...wulf founded a monastery on land granted to him for that purpose by Peada, King of the Mercians and dedicated it to St Peter. To the abbey was granted a gr ...n table and choir stalls, as well as mediæval decoration and records.<ref>King, Richard J. [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/20 KB (3,101 words) - 23:18, 16 November 2018
- The town was granted a royal market charter in 1201, by King John.<ref name="Wellingborough Market"/> Wellingborough was given a Market Charter dated 3 April 1201 when King John granted it to the "Abbot of Croyland and the monks serving God there"11 KB (1,617 words) - 17:27, 12 June 2017
- ...Goldsmith gave Kettering to the monastery of [[Peterborough]], which grant King Edgar confirmed in a charter dated 972. ...charter for Kettering's market was granted to the Abbot of Peterborough by King Henry III in 1227. The market continued at the Market Place until the bus s8 KB (1,311 words) - 16:55, 2 January 2011
- ...and as a place of exile, most notably for Napoleon I, Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo King of the Zulus and more than 5,000 prisoners of the Boer War. St Helena is no ...ed James Fort and the town Jamestown, in honour of the Duke of York, later King James II.26 KB (4,047 words) - 15:11, 17 March 2020
- ...''Zenobia'' and ''Peruvian'' claimed the island for His Britannic Majesty King George III. The Royal Navy officially designated the island as a stone frig21 KB (3,264 words) - 22:13, 2 January 2011
- ...y King, sailing aboard the ''Elizabeth'', landed on the island to find the king's colours already flying. His crew scratched the name of their ship into a24 KB (3,578 words) - 09:51, 11 September 2021
- ...cy. The seat of government is in [[Westminster]] and the current ruler is King Charles III. The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy. King Charles III is head of state of the United Kingdom as well as of fifteen ot33 KB (5,004 words) - 07:34, 9 September 2022
- ...o paganism when he departed. In 685 the island was conquered by Cædwalla King of the West Saxons and incorporated into Wessex. According to Bede, the las ...ourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London, 1610)]</ref> King Henry VI assisted in person at the ceremony, placing the crown on his head.23 KB (3,704 words) - 17:07, 29 November 2016
- ...ver, as feudal entities, the Forest and Liberty of Bowland were created by King William II at some time after the Domesday Book and granted to his vassal R ...Albermarle in gratitude for Monck's leading role in the restoration of the King.<ref>TD Whitaker, "An History of the Original Parish of Whalley and Honour10 KB (1,562 words) - 23:32, 9 December 2016
- ...distinct townships, ''Wrexham Regis'' (which was under the control of the King) and ''Wrexham Abbot'' (generally the older parts of the town, which origin [[File:wrecsam kingsmill.jpg|right|thumb|The King's Mill]]19 KB (3,139 words) - 18:10, 1 September 2022
- ...'s land dispute with Owain Glyndŵr triggered Glyndŵr's rebellion against King Henry IV which began on 16 September 1400, when Glyndŵr burned Ruthin to t10 KB (1,601 words) - 10:33, 17 June 2014
- ...lieving force was defeated by the Welsh rebels. The town was recaptured by King Edward I in December. Denbigh was also burnt in 1400 during the revolt of4 KB (589 words) - 18:21, 11 January 2011
- ...town gate. In later years the Norwegians of Northumbria rebelled against King Edmund and took Derby, which was noted as one of the 'Five Boroughs' (forti ...ocal regiments and archaeology. Pickford also designed St Helen's House in King Street.18 KB (2,855 words) - 08:17, 10 July 2018
- The town received its charter in the year 1204 from King John which permitted the town to hold a market. Today some two hundred and7 KB (1,124 words) - 23:12, 20 November 2016
- ...air celebrated its 750th anniversary in 2002, the Charter being granted by King Henry III in 1252. This makes the fair older than [[Nottingham]]'s famous G9 KB (1,426 words) - 22:32, 16 January 2011
- ...was always hazardous. The King's Guide to the Sands was first employed by King Henry VIII to lead travellers across the treacherous sands, and the positio6 KB (910 words) - 15:09, 14 November 2017
- ...defended against the Royalists. In 1651 though Prince Charles, the future King Charles II, on his hasty escape to France, narrowly escaped capture on his13 KB (2,035 words) - 18:51, 29 January 2016
- ...mportance was recognised in 1433 when it was awarded staple port status by King Henry VI, permitting the export of wool through the port, and in due course ...n stance and its merchants' opposition to the ship money tax introduced by King Charles I led to the town declaring for Parliament.<ref>Legg (p.31)</ref> P29 KB (4,491 words) - 10:56, 6 May 2020
- ...wn was known as ''Scaepterbyrg''; its ownership was equally shared between king and abbey. In the Middle Ages the abbey was the central focus of the town. The town was held for the King during the Civil War. Wardour Castle fell to Parliamentary forces in 1643 a6 KB (1,004 words) - 15:13, 27 January 2016
- ...n 705 the Wessex bishopric was split between Sherborne and Winchester, and King Ine founded an Abbey here for St Aldhelm, the first bishop of Sherborne. ...f King Alfred, who was educated there. The school was refounded in 1550 as King Edward's public school, using some of the old abbey buildings, though it is6 KB (884 words) - 12:12, 7 August 2014
- ...Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, and his duchess, the maternal grandparents of King Henry VII.<ref>[http://www.wimborneminster.org.uk/ Wimborne Minster, Church7 KB (1,077 words) - 15:16, 27 January 2016
- ...me=freeling125 /> It was also visited by Queen Henrietta Maria, consort of King Charles I, in 1643. She stayed in the town for one night at a building name14 KB (2,090 words) - 09:11, 24 January 2011
- ...Irish: ''Cealtachair'') who resided there and who fought alongside Ulster King Conchobar mac Neasa and is mentioned in the Ulster Cycle and, in particular ...efeating and driving off Rory MacDonlevy (''Ruaidhri Mac Duinnshleibhe''), King of the ''Dál Fiatach''.11 KB (1,709 words) - 12:36, 30 April 2018
- ...amilton arrived in Bangor, having been granted lands in north Downshire by King James I and VI in 1605. The Old Custom House, which was completed by Hamilt18 KB (2,945 words) - 19:33, 25 January 2023
- ...ngs. The city is first recorded in a letter which St Patrick wrote to the King of Strathclyde, Ceretic, at his court here around AD 450. Traded Roman mate ...) probably predates this, and a later source links King Ceretic, a British King who received a letter from St Patrick with ''Ail'', thought to be Clyde Roc15 KB (2,493 words) - 14:23, 7 March 2021
- ...aving the only unemployment benefit office in Britain with the insignia of King Edward VIII above the door, until the building was closed and redeveloped a2 KB (328 words) - 15:23, 27 January 2016
- ...lingshire]], but Malcolm Fleming, Sheriff of Dumbarton, prevailed upon the King to exchage various parished between the two shires, and in thus the land ca12 KB (1,906 words) - 12:28, 9 August 2019
- ...er known as the "Bruces", lords of Annandale, which most famously produced King Robert I; Robert the Bruce. The Balliols and the Douglases were also more o4 KB (667 words) - 19:40, 30 January 2011
- Twelve of King Arthur's battles were recorded by Nennius in ''Historia Brittonum''. The Ba King William I (William the Lion) granted the charter to raise Dumfries to the r23 KB (3,773 words) - 15:21, 27 January 2016
- ...ch, signed the ''Sanquhar Declaration'' renouncing their allegiance to the King, an event commemorated by a monument in the main street. The church of St B ...to bed carrying a lighted torch made from £30,000 in bond notes that the king owed Lord Crichton. By 1639 the Crichtons had moved to [[Ayrshire]], and so15 KB (2,545 words) - 14:30, 14 October 2014
- ...us was sent to convert the Saxons of the Thames Valley to Christianity and King Cynegils of Wessex gave Dorchester to Birinus as his seat, so he became the King Henry VIII dissolved the Abbey in 1536, leaving the small village with a hu5 KB (767 words) - 21:07, 19 February 2019
- ...assembly of the three estates, clergy, nobility and burgesses, summoned by King Alexander III; a forerunner of the Parliament of Scotland.<ref name="Lamont ...om of Fife'' pp106–111</ref> This grant was officially recognised by King James II in 1428.<ref name="Pride pp106–111" />11 KB (1,692 words) - 17:01, 24 March 2011
- ...commented in 1299 that “There are two kings in England, namely the Lord King of England, wearing a crown in sign of his regality and the Lord Bishop of ...though that is not a title they would have recognised.<ref name="Liddy" /> King Henry VIII curtailed some of the Prince-Bishop's powers and, in 1538, order31 KB (4,924 words) - 10:38, 30 March 2016
- Garrison is named from a barracks erected by King William III who halted here after the Battle of Aughrim.4 KB (589 words) - 17:02, 27 January 2016
- ...ce Signatories]</ref> In 1745 he led the men of Beith to Glasgow to defend King George III against the Young Pretender in the '45 rebellion. Despite receiv32 KB (5,182 words) - 10:58, 17 March 2017
- ...r" – Warwick Castle was used in the 15th century to imprison the English king, Edward IV. ...Avon in the year 914 AD when Æthelflæda Lady of the Mercians, sister of King [[Edward the Elder]] of Wessex and widow of Ealdorman Aethelred, built a fo10 KB (1,542 words) - 07:35, 29 January 2016
- ...e said to be the town's beginning. The nunnery was later left in ruins by King Canute's invading Danish army in 1016. ...thedral spire in England, after Salisbury and Norwich.<ref>Arthur Mee, The King's England – Warwickshire; Hodder & Stoughton, 1936</ref> Due to the archi20 KB (3,190 words) - 12:45, 27 April 2021
- King Edward VI School was established by a royal charter in 1552. From 1944 it b12 KB (1,825 words) - 07:30, 29 January 2016
- **Christ the King5 KB (802 words) - 07:34, 29 January 2016
- ...sperity could result from encouraging trade. Lanark thus formed one of the King's new burghs spread across Scotland to be centres of up to date civic cultu8 KB (1,231 words) - 11:37, 26 May 2020
- ...irst record of the town is in a legal instrument drawn during the reign of King Henry II. Henley was originally a hamlet of [[Wootton Wawen]], on Feldon S ...borough in 1296. In 1315 all of the recorded townsfolk were freemen. The King stayed at the castle for 7 days in January 1324.<ref>{{cite book|title=Cale11 KB (1,705 words) - 22:49, 9 February 2011
- ...irst mentioned at some time between the years 723 and 737 when Æthelbald, King of the Mercians, the Earl Æthelric an estate containing 20 hides of land ( ...e Tonei family and who had fought stoutly with William the Bastard against King Harold. He made [[Stafford]] his principal seat, where he had a strong cast15 KB (2,422 words) - 21:09, 12 August 2014
- ...chool. A new Winchester University was founded as such in June 2005 out of King Alfred's College, founded as the Winchester Diocesan Training School in 184 ...le Grand à Winchester.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Hamo Thornycroft's statue of King Alfred the Great]]15 KB (2,351 words) - 12:42, 23 January 2020
- ...eated the forces of Edgar the Ætheling and his brother in law Malcolm III King of Scotland on Gateshead Fell (now Low Fell). In 1080, Walcher, Bishop of14 KB (2,262 words) - 14:17, 7 July 2016
- ...igs. Value before 1066 8; later 6: now 13. Godric son of Karl held it from King Edward".<ref name=" westwickhamresidents"/>4 KB (562 words) - 14:05, 30 June 2018
- In August 2008 the King's Hotel in the town centre was devastated by fire, severely damaging the ro8 KB (1,204 words) - 14:17, 7 July 2016
- ...dward I confiscated the title to Hartlepool and ended the Hartness title. King Edward took possession of the Bruce estates and began to improve the town's21 KB (3,333 words) - 16:24, 7 September 2014
- ...ng the results of the great survey of England carried out at the orders of King William I. It is also known as "The Book of Winchester". ...e Scaccario, the Course of the Exchequer, and Constitutio Domus Regis, the King's Household'', 64. London, 1950.</ref>7 KB (1,150 words) - 17:40, 20 February 2011
- ...odcutter's daughter who drowned herself rather than submit to the lusts of King John, lies to the north of Albury.1 KB (216 words) - 17:44, 20 February 2011
- ...ld to American Golf Discount Store, who still use the old building. Burger King had plans to build a fast food restaurant there but has since been cancelle ...ve churches: [[Church of England]] (St Anne's); Roman Catholic (Christ the King); Methodist, Evangelical (Brook Church) and Jehovah's Witnesses.6 KB (927 words) - 09:37, 24 July 2018
- ...iam, though a small part was in the hands of Robert, Count of Mortain, the king's half brother, and younger brother of Odo of Bayeux, then earl of Kent. It King Edward III built a manor house close to the Thames in Bermondsey in 1353. T22 KB (3,382 words) - 09:21, 30 January 2021
- ...the mouth of the Wear date back to 674, when one Benedict granted land by King Ecgfrith of Northumbria, founded the Wearmouth-Jarrow (''St. Peter's'') mon ...on the south side of the river were granted to the [[Bishop of Durham]] by King Athelstan in 930; these became known as Bishopwearmouth and included settle22 KB (3,454 words) - 14:30, 30 March 2016
- ...pitals, King's College Hospital with associated medical school the Guy’s King’s and St Thomas’ (GKT) School of Medicine. The Maudsley Hospital, an in8 KB (1,162 words) - 11:08, 25 January 2016
- ...nne was probably riding to or from an assignation with her future husband, King Henry VIII at the nearby home of Sir Nicholas Carew.11 KB (1,700 words) - 10:54, 25 January 2016
- ..."none such" else to be found. The Palace was not used in later reigns and King Charles II gave it away to the Countess of Castlemaine, who later had it de6 KB (949 words) - 20:49, 25 February 2011
- ...hertsey Abbey was sacked by the Danes and refounded from Abingdon Abbey by King Edgar I in 964. ...rthwest corner of Sussex until it was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1536. The King took stone from the Abbey to construct his palace at Oatlands; the villager8 KB (1,291 words) - 21:06, 25 February 2011
- ...n many distinguished visitors down the years. In 1522, Edward VI, the "boy king", stayed here, and it is said that Queen Elizabeth I was a guest in 1591.3 KB (498 words) - 21:12, 25 February 2011
- ...tory of the Clapham family maintained by the College of Heralds, in 965 AD King Edgar of England gave a grant of land at Clapham to Jonas, son of the Duke6 KB (979 words) - 22:42, 28 January 2016
- There have been many wrecks off Selsey Bill over the years. King Henry VI granted that lands of Chichester Cathedral should be exempt from t4 KB (653 words) - 23:02, 28 January 2016
- King Henry VI granted that lands of Chichester Cathedral should be exempt from t8 KB (1,346 words) - 09:24, 24 March 2013
- ...was always hazardous. The King's Guide to the Sands was first employed by King Henry VIII to lead travellers across the treacherous sands, and the positio5 KB (795 words) - 07:38, 29 January 2016
- ...but in the later tenth of early eleventh century, Lothian was ceded to the King of Scots. Haddington received the status of a burgh during the reign of King David I (1124–1153); one of the first Scottish burghs,<ref>Book {{cite bo11 KB (1,760 words) - 14:04, 2 August 2018
- Later Dunbar was a king's estate and used to imprison to Bishop Wilfrid. It was the base of a senio ...kened against covetous neighbours. Dunbar was burnt by Kenneth MacAlpin, (King Kenneth I of Scotland) in the 9th century. Scottish control was consolidate8 KB (1,285 words) - 08:25, 7 December 2016
- ...lites, and Augustinians. At the Reformation, their friaries were closed by King Henry VIII. The refectory of the Dominican friary was eventually converted19 KB (3,202 words) - 10:35, 16 February 2019
- ...not recorded before the 15th century) that the church was founded by Offa, King of the Mercians (757-796). It is locally reputed that King Henry VIII nearly died in a fire in Hitchin. It is also alleged that Henry9 KB (1,489 words) - 13:09, 3 August 2017
- In 1199, King Richard I granted the [[Bishop of London]] a Royal Charter for Chelmsford t ...Saturday 6th July [1381], Chelmsford became the seat of government ... The king probably lodged at his nearby manor house at Writtle. He was attended by hi17 KB (2,639 words) - 10:20, 30 March 2016
- Brentwood has a number of public open spaces including the King George's Playing Field, Shenfield Common and two vast country parks at Sout24 KB (3,735 words) - 16:55, 27 January 2016
- ...ater King Harold II, owned the land in his time and after 1066 it fells to King William I. In 1333, the population of Dulwich was recorded as 100. In the 17th century, King Charles I visited Dulwich Woods on a regular basis to hunt. John Evelyn, t13 KB (2,090 words) - 17:20, 12 June 2017
- ...lready a centre of power for Cunobelin, known to Shakespeare as Cymbeline, King of the Catuvellauni (c.5 BC - AD 40), who minted coins there.<ref>P. Salway ...yal charter by King Richard I. The charter was granted at [[Dover]] as the king was about to embark on one of his many journeys away from England. The boro21 KB (3,251 words) - 19:50, 25 January 2023
- ...Domesday Book]] of 1086 as the Manor of ''Dorchinges''. It was held by The king. Its assets were: one church, 3 mills worth 15s 4d, 16 ploughs, 3 acres of8 KB (1,407 words) - 14:09, 11 March 2011
- ...ce and named after Sir John Puleston who lost his life during the reign of King Edward I on campaign in Wales.14 KB (2,352 words) - 20:54, 28 January 2016
- ...after Erkenwald founded Chertsey Abbey in 666, he secured from Frithuwald King of Surrey (a Mercian underking) a charter endowing the abbey with much of t4 KB (634 words) - 13:53, 10 June 2018
- ...hes is dedicated to the Saint Edmund the Martyr, the martyred East Anglian King after whom [[Bury St Edmunds]] is named. Dudley's Council House in Priory Road was opened in 1935 by King George V. It was financed by the then Earl of Dudley, William Humble Eric W16 KB (2,649 words) - 13:56, 31 October 2017
- :''That whatsoever King may reign,'' :''In good King Charles's golden days,''5 KB (883 words) - 11:07, 8 February 2019
- ...to the Crown in terms of tax revenue. The town was granted its charter by King John in 1201. The first mayor was installed in 1218.17 KB (2,706 words) - 13:24, 28 January 2016
- ...thur'' spins a humorous tale in which an incognito Gawain pushes his uncle King Arthur into the Usk, who is then forced to explain to his wife Gwendoloena6 KB (1,068 words) - 08:56, 31 May 2019
- *P. King, 'The river Teme and other Midlands River Navigations' ''Journal of Railway8 KB (1,338 words) - 14:42, 30 October 2019
- In 875 King Alfred's army overwintered in the [[Athelney]] marshes nearby before bursti ...nty Council|accessdate=6 January 2010}}</ref> Through Briwere's influence, King John granted three charters in 1200; for the construction of Bridgwater Cas36 KB (5,545 words) - 13:16, 21 March 2011
- ...e local legend, of early tradition, tells that Jane Shore, the mistress of King Edward IV, died in the ditch here. However, as the place is attested as 'S [[File:HettyKingDark.jpg|thumb|left|150px|1907 Hetty King sheet music, expressing a concern of modern residents]]16 KB (2,436 words) - 13:49, 28 January 2016
- ...e granted city status|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/23015443.king-charles-visits-scotland-dunfermline-granted-city-status/ |access-date=3 Oct ...s abbey, and the remains of the Royal Palace of Dunfermline, birthplace of King Charles I.20 KB (3,045 words) - 19:57, 25 January 2023
- ...urntisland Fishing Port p5</ref> Ownership of the harbour was then sold to King James V by the abbots of Dunfermline Abbey in exchange for a parcel of land In 1601, King James VI chose the town as an alternative site for the General Assembly of5 KB (829 words) - 22:04, 24 March 2011
- In 1263, King Haakon IV of Norway anchored in Elwick Bay before sailing south to engage t5 KB (803 words) - 23:29, 26 March 2011
- ...Earl of Orkney, who was killed by his uncle Thorfinn the Mighty. In 1486, King James III of Scotland elevated Kirkwall to the status of a royal burgh; mod6 KB (1,008 words) - 23:47, 26 March 2011
- ...story as a stronghold of one kind or another. Rumours still circulate that King Henry VIII's sixth wife Katherine Parr was born at Kendal Castle, but based9 KB (1,450 words) - 12:53, 30 March 2011
- ...ld a market by a charter granted in 1606 to George, Earl of Cumberland, by King James I. The charter permits "''one market on Monday and two fairs yearly; ...2006 there were special celebrations to mark the 400th anniversary of the King James charter. St Luke's Fair, or "Charter Day", is celebrated every year8 KB (1,231 words) - 12:40, 29 June 2017
- King Edward I began to build Flint Castle in 1277: the first of his 'iron ring'4 KB (674 words) - 22:53, 30 March 2011
- The original cathedral was burnt down by the soldiers of King Edward I. The present Cathedral was begun in the thirteenth century and it ...ty years. The cathedral as we now see it was largely built in the reign of King Henry VII and greatly restored in the 19th century. In the 1930s, urgent w5 KB (845 words) - 11:45, 15 December 2016
- In 1420, King Henry V presented Ewloe and the pastorage of Buckley to his wife, Catherine10 KB (1,566 words) - 18:03, 6 September 2014
- King's Cave on the south west coast is an example of an emergent landform on suc A substantial Viking grave has been discovered near King's Cross south of Lamlash, containing whalebone, iron rivets and nails, frag22 KB (3,413 words) - 23:29, 17 January 2017
- It is claimed that the Norwegian King Haakon IV used the island as a base before the Battle of [[Largs]] (1263).<11 KB (1,743 words) - 12:36, 5 April 2011
- ...sdair's Rock", (used in the ''Madness of Sweeney'' the tale of a legendary king of Ireland).9 KB (1,458 words) - 18:55, 15 September 2018
- ...defend it from invaders during the Border wars against Scotland. The Scots king William the Lion was imprisoned in Newcastle in 1174, and Edward I brought ...omwell's Scottish allies, based in pro-Parliament Sunderland. The grateful King bestowed the motto ''"Fortiter Defendit Triumphans"'' ("Triumphing by a bra32 KB (4,917 words) - 12:52, 30 March 2016
- ...ded into small kingdoms. Early on, Meurig ap Tewdrig emerged as the local king in Glywysing (which later became Glamorgan). The kingdom passed through his ...me the most powerful family in the area.<ref name="Cardiffians"/> In 1538, King Henry VIII closed the Dominican and Franciscan friaries in Cardiff, whose a38 KB (5,993 words) - 20:11, 20 March 2020
- ...ferred to as "Quick", spelt "Thoac"; where it is described as "Land of the King in Eurvicsire (Yorkshire), Agbrigg Wapentake."11 KB (1,646 words) - 19:35, 28 July 2015
- ...legend, caused by a sea-king called Mysing. He stole a magical quern from King Frode, but Mysing's land subsequently sank near Stroma under the quern's we7 KB (1,174 words) - 10:28, 29 April 2022
- ...ents"/> The carnival's route began in the town centre, wound its way along King Street, and ended with a party in Alexandra Park.<ref name="Events"/>38 KB (5,853 words) - 21:47, 5 April 2020
- ...to run the ferry from the Caithness mainland to [[Orkney]], which islands King James had only recently acquired from Norway. People from John o' Groats a7 KB (1,185 words) - 13:25, 27 January 2016
- ...owever the name of Great Britain was promoted and the King used the title "King of Great Britain". ...ommonwealth regime in the 1650s, this lasted only until the restoration of King Charles II in 1660.26 KB (4,060 words) - 21:45, 11 June 2019
- ...which the great Abbey of St Albans had been endowed when founded in 793 by King Offa. Local tithes supported the abbey, which in turn provided clergy to se9 KB (1,485 words) - 00:30, 20 March 2019
- In 1199 King John confirmed the grant of Sarratt to St Albans Abbey, from which it was r3 KB (417 words) - 09:52, 1 December 2020
- ...nster Abbey. The body of Edmund of Langley, died 1402, the fifth son of King Edward III and the first Duke of York, still rests in the memorial chapel.<7 KB (1,149 words) - 05:51, 3 May 2011
- ...''Langlai Abbatis'' (Latin for "Abbot's Langley"), the remainder being the king's Langley. By the time of the [[Domesday Book]] in 1086 the village was inh ...hen Solicitor General later Attorney General and Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench. On the death of his son without issue in 1756 the manors passed to6 KB (891 words) - 16:40, 3 May 2011
- ...to be a town of some local importance and was granted its town charter by King Henry VIII in 1539. The Old Town still remains and is the prettiest part o ...recorded mention of the town is the grant of land at ''Hamaele'' by Offa, King of Essex, to the Bishop of London in 705. Hemel Hempstead on its present si28 KB (4,392 words) - 11:47, 13 November 2020
- ...tford.net">[http://www.hertford.net/history/priory.asp Hertford.net]</ref> King Henry II rebuilt the castle in stone, but in 1216, during the First Barons'7 KB (1,155 words) - 18:45, 27 January 2016
- ...n to the time in which the St Mary Church in nearby Walkern was built, for King Edward ruled from 1042 until his death in 1066. Walkern's village church da **[http://www.christtheking-stevenage.info Church of Christ the King] (jointly with United Reformed and Roman Catholic congregations)14 KB (2,304 words) - 10:53, 27 July 2017
- ...thamstede''.<ref>[http://ascharters.net/charters/1031?q=&page= Charter of King Edward to Westminster, 1060]</ref> In that year Wheathampstead was given b5 KB (725 words) - 13:02, 6 May 2011
- In King Offa's time, an abbey was founded on the supposed site of St Alban's execut In 1539 King Henry VIII dissolved St Alban's Abbey along with all the monasteries of Eng18 KB (2,933 words) - 14:22, 30 March 2016
- ...the days of Sir Robert Cecil, the First Earl of Salisbury, in the reign of King James I. ...nown as Hetfelle and became known as Haethfeld in around the year 970 when King Edgar gave 5,000 acres to the monastery of [[Ely]]. Hatfield is mentioned i7 KB (1,149 words) - 13:12, 3 August 2017
- ...e time between 1158–1184 by William de Newburgh, 3rd Earl of Warwick. In King John's charter of 1215, the name appears as ''Sweyneshe''. The town seal wh King John granted a chater too in 1215. A further, more detailed charter was gr17 KB (2,704 words) - 14:59, 30 March 2016
- According to legend, the town is named after Saint Tydfil, a daughter of King Brychan of Brycheiniog. According to her legend she was slain at Merthyr b22 KB (3,479 words) - 13:57, 16 October 2018
- ...ristian sculptured stones, three with inscriptions. One is the memorial to King Rhys ap Arthfael of Morgannwg who died in the mid-9th century. Another may ...learning. David, Samson of Dol, Paul Aurelian, Gildas, Tudwal, Baglan and King Maelgwn Gwynedd are said to have studied at the Cor Tewdws, the divinity sc5 KB (875 words) - 17:16, 27 January 2016
- ...''Colonia Glevum Nervensis'', and was granted its first charter in 1155 by King Henry II. Economically, the city is dominated by the service industries, an ...n a navigable river, and the foundation in 681 of the abbey of St Peter by King Æthelred, favoured the growth of the town. Long before the Norman Conques19 KB (3,089 words) - 09:13, 30 March 2016
- ...tains statues moved from Arno's Court Triumphal Arch, of King Edward I and King Edward III taken from Lawfords' Gate of the city walls when they were demol23 KB (3,465 words) - 15:51, 25 May 2023
- ...e A10 until the latter is bypassed around the centre. The High Street and King Street, Fish Hill and Market Hill form the knot of pedestrianised shopping ...1200 probably by Amphelise, a daughter of Richard the Chamberlain. In 1213 King John granted them a fair to celebrate the feast of St Nicholas (May 8–9).10 KB (1,701 words) - 16:36, 26 February 2016
- Tewkesbury Abbey was dissolved at the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII. The great abbey church however did not fall into terminal deca The monastery was dissolved at the Dissolution of the Monasteries by King Henry VIII, but the church was saved by being bought by the townspeople for15 KB (2,451 words) - 17:26, 27 January 2016
- ...the Anglo-Saxon period, Winchcombe was a chief city of Mercia favoured by King Coenwulf, <ref>Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe, Michelle P. Brown, An Abbey was founded at Winchcumbe by Coenwulf, King of Mercia, in 811, and it was restored by Bishop Oswald in the tenth centur5 KB (758 words) - 20:02, 12 May 2011
- ...for hunting and he greatly increased the popularity of horse racing here. King Charles I followed this by inaugurating the first cup race in 1634. The Jo ...of Darley), Cheveley Park Stud (which local lore claims was once owned by King Canute), and Banstead Manor Stud (Headquarters of Juddmonte Farms) are well8 KB (1,244 words) - 08:46, 29 July 2014
- ...er. The fame of the household was widespread, and they attracted visitors. King Charles I visited Little Gidding three times, including on 2 May 1646 seeki ...'Four Quartets'', completed in 1942 . In the poem he refers to the "broken king" Charles and relates the struggles of the English civil war to the events o4 KB (570 words) - 22:09, 12 May 2011
- ...ater the scene of the Battle of Cirencester, this time between the Mercian king Penda and the West Saxon kings Cynegils and Cwichelm in 628. ...d. In reply, the abbot refuted these claims, and the case passed on to the King's Bench. When ordered to produce the foundation charter of his abbey the ab16 KB (2,560 words) - 17:20, 27 January 2016
- ...ce ''Porth Hamon'' after a certain Lelius Hamo, a traitor who had murdered king Togodumnus during the early stages of the Roman invasion of Britain.<ref>{{ ...f the ''Witenagemot'', the "parliament" of nobles and clergy, declared him King of the English, while the rest of the Witan, in London chose Edmund Ironsid35 KB (5,320 words) - 14:22, 30 March 2016
- ...ron organised a three-day regatta for the first time and the next year the king signified his approval of the event by presenting a cup to mark the occasio8 KB (1,342 words) - 17:32, 27 January 2016
- ...e was subsequently transferred to fortifications built during the reign of King Henry VIII on the east bank to resist French invasion, referred to as cowfo7 KB (1,135 words) - 22:38, 16 May 2011
- ...riory, established by French monks about 1150. The priory was dissolved by King Henry V in 1415 during the French Wars. Neglect over the centuries took its ...e of the old Carisbrooke railway station lies on the grounds of Christ the King College in the lower part of the field, which is at the end of Purdy Road.6 KB (916 words) - 22:39, 16 May 2011
- ...King Edred is recorded as having built a royal hunting lodge there. In 962 King Edgar called a meeting of the English parliament, the Witenagemot, at his h ...Olof Skötkonung was already king of Sweden and became its first Christian king and began in about 995 to mint Sweden's first coins, with the help of Engli12 KB (2,009 words) - 21:44, 17 May 2011
- ...="Stannard 1999 3">Stannard (1999) p. 3.</ref> In 1094 a chief minister of King William II, Ranulf Flambard, then Dean of Twynham, began the building of Ch ...n to King Henry I, it was rebuilt in stone by Baldwin de Redvers to resist King Stephen during the civil war with the Empress Matilda.29 KB (4,437 words) - 09:29, 30 March 2017
- ...rom paying the annual tax, with the money instead used for local matters. King Richard later went on to build a number of houses and a hall in Portsmouth. ...00 King John reaffirmed the rights and privileges awarded by King Richard. King John's desire to invade Normandy resulted in the establishment of Portsmout35 KB (5,463 words) - 19:20, 1 November 2021
- |picture=Bromyard - King's Arms pub and High Street - geograph.org.uk - 979242.jpg6 KB (896 words) - 22:50, 19 May 2011
- ...was a base for repelling attacks and a secure stronghold for kings such as King Henry IV when on campaign in the west against Owain Glyndŵr. The castle wa ...en for Parliament on 18 December 1645 by Colonel Birch and Colonel Morgan. King Charles showed his gratitude to the city of Hereford on 16 September 1645 b10 KB (1,692 words) - 09:41, 30 March 2016
- A set of almshouses atnd on the road down to the Arrow, founded by King Charles II.5 KB (874 words) - 17:04, 20 May 2011
- ...rl=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HEF/Titley/Gaz1868.html}}</ref> Later King Henry V granted the priory to [[Winchester College]].3 KB (402 words) - 12:45, 23 January 2020
- ...s one of a group of towns thereabouts with cognate names: "Kington" means "King's Town", [[Presteigne]] means "Priest's Town" and [[Knighton]] is "Knight's ...nry II and fled the country. He returned to England within the army of the King of Scots, an invasion culminating in the Battle of Alnwick in 1174 and the9 KB (1,402 words) - 22:07, 20 April 2017
- ...un]] lies Caer Caradoc, an Iron Age hillfort traditionally associated with King Caradoc (Caractacus) who fought the Romans. [[Watling Street]], a Roman roa13 KB (1,970 words) - 07:29, 22 February 2016
- ...is most famous as the birthplace of King Alfred the Great and of his son, King Edward the Elder. ...and Museum. There is a large market square containing the famous statue of King Alfred, surrounded by many shops with 18th century facades. Quieter streets7 KB (1,086 words) - 13:11, 8 February 2019
- ...ight to mint Royal coinage. It was enclosed with substantial earthworks by King Alfred the Great in the 9th century as part of a network of fortified towns ...in November 1153. The town was granted a Royal Charter in 1155 by the new king, Henry II; only the second town in England to receive one.11 KB (1,653 words) - 13:14, 19 October 2020
- ...n the village in 986 by Queen Dowager Ælfthryth on land given by her son, King Ethelred the Unready. The nunnery is thought to have been destroyed by inva3 KB (507 words) - 10:35, 23 February 2021
- ...tchfield, 1924, pages 189-199</ref> The weekly market is still held today. King John also established an abbey in Faringdon in 1202, (probably on the site ...fortified by supporters of Matilda as she strove to claim the throne from King Stephen. Matilda's works were razed to the ground by Stephen. Oliver Cromw8 KB (1,251 words) - 15:11, 10 February 2024
- ...ry charters. Abingdon Abbey owned the manor throughout the Middle Ages and King Edward I visited their grange there.8 KB (1,356 words) - 10:44, 16 February 2019
- By East Hendred is [[Scutchamer Knob]] where King Edwin of Northumbria is said to have killed Cwichelm of Wessex in the 7th c The parish consists of five manors: King's Manor, Abbey Manor, Frampton's Manor, New College Manor and Arches Manor.6 KB (924 words) - 13:03, 27 January 2016
- ...of several hides of land to thegn Brihtric by King Eadwig in AD 955 and by King Edgar I in AD 964 to Abingdon Abbey<ref>Page & Ditchfield, 1924, pages 302-4 KB (606 words) - 10:28, 27 July 2016
- ...n. Tradition asserted it to be the monument of a victory over the Danes by King Alfred the Great, who was born at Wantage, but the site of the Battle of As8 KB (1,389 words) - 15:42, 1 October 2020
- Fort William is named for King William III, in whose days the Cromwellian fort here was rebuilt. The town ...d here to ensure a garrison in case of trouble. The fort was named for the King and the village that grew around it was called "Maryburgh", after the Queen9 KB (1,459 words) - 22:32, 11 March 2018
- ...es V of Scotland in 1540. However other have doubted this etymology, since King James did not arrive in peace but to subdue the Lord of the Isles, though s3 KB (446 words) - 14:37, 9 December 2014
- The main shopping street in Castle Douglas is King Street. It is the largest town of the dale and has a good range of shops, m7 KB (1,082 words) - 13:02, 27 May 2011
- ...written record of Whitchurch dates from the year 909 in a charter by which King Edward the Elder confirmed the manor of Whitchurch to the monks of Winchest14 KB (2,212 words) - 16:50, 27 May 2011
- ...d [[Cambridgeshire|Cambridge]]. However, the revolt was suppressed for the King by the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk, with the aid of local families.<ref>Th10 KB (1,680 words) - 10:37, 17 June 2014
- [[File:Kingjohn-Egham-DavidParfitt.JPG|right|thumb|150px|King John Sculpture]] ...ican Bar Association, at the foot of Cooper's Hill. A Sculpture portraying King John and Baron Fitzwalter in the act of sealing the Magna Carta is also loc6 KB (893 words) - 20:29, 18 June 2014
- ...station north of the village, a large common, a generous sports park (the King George V playing fields), and two schools; the Howard of Effingham School a ...n Effingham in 1970 by Dr Sutton in land being prepared as Rugby fields in King George V Playing fields. It is not known whether the coin was dropped on th10 KB (1,701 words) - 22:43, 28 January 2016
- ...former Yarrow yard at Scotstoun and Fairfields at Govan. There is also the King George V Dock, operated by the Clyde Port Authority. On the Lower Clyde, th16 KB (2,458 words) - 08:29, 27 July 2018
- ...th the Abbey of [[Chertsey]], whose ownership of Ebbisham was confirmed by King Athelstan in 933.9 KB (1,424 words) - 22:43, 28 January 2016
- Ewell appears in [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 as ''Etwelle''. It was held by the King. Its Domesday assets were: 13½ hides; 2 mills worth 10s, 16 ploughs, 14 ac In 1538, King Henry VIII established Nonsuch Palace, considered one of his greatest build5 KB (756 words) - 19:08, 1 June 2011
- When King John was at Guildford and [[Knepp Castle]] in Sussex on the same day, 21 Ja *Sir Hugh F. Locke King (1848–1926), [[Brooklands]] motor circuit entrepreneur9 KB (1,375 words) - 09:21, 30 January 2021
- The Banchory show is held every July and attracts a good sized crowd to King George V Park. There is an Agricultural Show, Dog Show, Craft Fair, Highlan6 KB (1,004 words) - 09:09, 12 October 2015
- |picture caption=King Street, Inverbervie ...to the Abbey. The town was raised to the status of a royal burgh 1342 by King David I in thanks for hospitality he and his Queen received when shipwrecke4 KB (620 words) - 21:49, 27 January 2016
- ...s Abbey and a Norman castle, and perhaps the oldest school in England, The King's School. Modern additions include the University of Kent, Canterbury Chris ...d the chief episcopal see to be in the ancient Roman seat, London, but the King of Essex remained pagan and so Augustine settled in Kent. An abbey and cat38 KB (5,814 words) - 15:13, 7 November 2017
- ...pric founded amongst the English, after Canterbury. In the same year, The King's School was founded. In 676, Rochester was sacked by Æthelred of Mercia. In 842, Vikings sacked the town. In 877, King Alfred of Wessex ordered the building of ships to fight the Danes, which co16 KB (2,489 words) - 19:01, 28 December 2019
- ...losely connected with the bishopric of Rochester. In AD 862 Ethelbert, the King of Kent, granted land to form the Manor of Bromley. It was held by the Bish4 KB (697 words) - 10:28, 25 January 2016
- ...ame Tintern may derive from the Welsh ''din deyrn'', meaning "rocks of the king".<ref name=davies>E. T. Davies, ''A History of the Parish of Mathern'', 199 ...ded beside the river by Walter de Clare on 9 May 1131, during the reign of King Henry I. It was only the second Cistercian foundation in Britain, and its m9 KB (1,435 words) - 22:44, 10 December 2014
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- ...mlin Walk shopping centre. The pedestrianised areas of the High Street and King Street run up from the river crossing at Lockmeadow; Week Street and Gabrie ...h Court of Justice and was responsible for declaring the death sentence on King Charles I, and today a plaque in Maidstone Town Centre remembers Andrew Bro13 KB (2,063 words) - 21:22, 27 January 2016
- ...|isbn=0 9504560 7 1}}</ref> During the Middle Ages the town was visited by King Henry I and in 1324 by Edward II.<ref name=WRIGHT/> Evidence of Eastbo ...as a seaside resort came about following a summer holiday visit by four of King George III's children in 1780; Princes Edward and Octavius, and Princesses35 KB (5,481 words) - 07:14, 19 September 2019
- The modern name was in use at least by the time Shakespeare wrote 'King Lear' (between 1603 and 1606), in which the town and its cliffs play a prom10 KB (1,559 words) - 15:29, 20 January 2017
- ...hurch was in a ruinous condition, and apparently about 1606 in the days of King James I work began to rebuild it; the south arcade and aisle were pulled do ...by holding a street party. The charter was given by William, treasurer of King John, in 1211 obtained a charter for a fair to be held on the Feast of the7 KB (1,103 words) - 18:57, 27 January 2016
- ...n London protesting against punitive taxes, but were soundly beaten by the King's forces.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=CSkGAAAAQAA ...ties |date=|accessdate=2010-07-05}}</ref> and was at one time known as the King's Yard.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1665/08/22/ind28 KB (4,376 words) - 10:53, 25 October 2018
- ...stable Museum Trust, 1984) ISBN 0-9508406-2-9</ref> As late as the days of King Henry V, Greenwich was only a fishing town, with a safe anchorage in the ri ...ngs began to be established as a grand palace for Charles II, but only the King Charles block was completed. It was suggested that the buildings be adapted25 KB (3,955 words) - 11:40, 28 May 2016
- ...nland became a possession of Norway and in due course of Denmark until the King of Denmark pawned the islands to the Crown of Scotland during the 15th cent14 KB (2,307 words) - 22:13, 31 July 2021
- ...exts such as the ''Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar''. According to the latter, King Haakon IV of Norway anchored his fleet, including the flagship ''Kroussden'10 KB (1,601 words) - 23:01, 14 June 2011
- ...Elan. Work started in 1894 and the scheme was officially opened in 1904 by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.<ref name="rhayader.co.uk"/><ref>http://hist7 KB (1,077 words) - 20:07, 28 January 2016
- All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!</poem><ref>''Macbeth'', Act 1, Scene 3, line 6</ref>}} ...to him the Thane of Cawdor has been condemned as traitor and executed and King Duncan has bestowed the title on Macbeth. Thus he sees the witches' hail a5 KB (747 words) - 15:32, 11 September 2017
- ...s recovered by locals and taken to the church, in recognition of which the King bestowed the right of sanctuary to the land. The pool where the drowning is8 KB (1,257 words) - 16:56, 21 June 2011
- ...to have front gardens (a tradition which still remains in place). In 1628, King Charles I granted Letters Patent to Cooke permitting the holding of a twice21 KB (3,406 words) - 20:20, 29 January 2021
- The Castle was begun in 1283 by King Edward I of England; part of his Iron Ring around Snowdonia. It was built o ...nd Wales were racked by the Wars of the Roses, Harlech Castle was held for King Edward IV (of the House of Lancaster). Between 1461 and 1468, Harlech, und6 KB (1,016 words) - 15:05, 11 November 2014
- ...in Irish language) as the name of [[Leinster]]. It formed a cantref up to King Edward's time, becoming then part of the new shire of Caernarfon.14 KB (2,197 words) - 22:47, 17 January 2017
- ...the cairn thrown over the legendary giant Rhitta Gawr after his defeat by King Arthur. As well as other figures from Arthurian legend, the mountain is lin ...06}}</ref> Rhitta Gawr wore a cloak made of men's beards, and was slain by King Arthur after claiming Arthur's beard.<ref name="Roberts_Glaslyn"/> Other si27 KB (4,335 words) - 08:35, 3 October 2017
- ...ncestral English had arrived by the sixth century. In 688, the West Saxon King Caedwalla granted the district around Farnham to the Church, and to the bis ...ry the abbey was becoming less important. By the time it was suppressed by King Henry VIII in 1536 as part of the dissolution of the monasteries there were27 KB (4,407 words) - 22:43, 28 January 2016
- ...Book]</ref> Fetcham in the Domesday survey had three manors; one known as King's Manor was probably Fetcham Park; another was given to Odo, Bishop of Baye5 KB (770 words) - 18:03, 8 July 2011
- In AD 688, King Caedwalla of Wessex made a charter conveying to the church 60 hides of land6 KB (925 words) - 14:48, 10 August 2022
- ...the name of Stephan Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury during the reign of King John and a signatory to Magna Carta. ...t the assertion. The Silent Pool, where Langton as a young priest saw the King chase a modest bathing maiden to her death, is in nearby Albury and other t2 KB (407 words) - 18:10, 8 July 2011
- ...ing Hundred. The estate of ''æt Godelmingum'' is mentioned in the will of King Alfred the Great, its name apparently from ''Godhelmingas'' meaning "Godhel The town became a market town when in 1300 King Edward I granted the estate to the Bishop of Salisbury and with it the righ10 KB (1,588 words) - 22:44, 28 January 2016
- ...ate". Thus the suggested etymology is "Goda's farm". Godgiefu, daughter of King Ethelred II, may be the origin of the name. She married firstly Drogo of Ma8 KB (1,276 words) - 22:44, 28 January 2016
- ...ce. In 1035, on the death of King Canute, Prince Alfred, son of the later King Ethelred II, landed from Normandy and made his way towards London. At Guild ...es of meadow, and woodland worth 40 hogs. Stoke was listed as being in the King's park, with a rendering of £15.<ref>[http://www.gwp.enta.net/surrnames.ht17 KB (2,649 words) - 19:31, 1 December 2023
- ...2010</ref> Founded by Adam de Rupe, it stood until the Dissolution under King Henry VIII.<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=47885 ...sailing to [[Waterford]], and on to [[Dublin]]; the first time an English king had stood on Irish soil, and the beginning of Henry's conquest of Ireland.48 KB (7,526 words) - 09:22, 30 January 2021
- ...y unspoilt over the centuries. Catherine of Aragon after her divorce from King Henry VIII was imprisoned here, but whether she appreciated the architectur3 KB (467 words) - 19:35, 3 April 2012
- ...://www.northlondonflyingschool.com/ North London Flying School]</ref> The King George V playing field, on the boundary of the old Hatfield Hyde village, w10 KB (1,636 words) - 17:52, 12 November 2012
- ...the beck flows northwards through Crosby Ravensworth, Mauld's Meaburn and King's Meaburn, emerging as the River Lyvennet. ...re named after the river including Lyvennet Simmentals of Greystone House, King's Meaburn.2 KB (322 words) - 13:34, 12 July 2011
- ...[Connaught]] || A dimidiated eagle and armed hand. Ruaidhri O'Conchobhair, King of Connaught, is surmised to have been conceded the arms of Schottenkloster ...found near Cormac’s Chapel on the Rock of Cashel. In the case of the ‘king-bishops’ of Cashel, the placing of the antique crown on their crozier was15 KB (2,304 words) - 22:55, 9 August 2015
- King George III visited Weylands farm in Hersham where he saw the first drill pl4 KB (564 words) - 22:44, 28 January 2016
- After the Zulu War, Chief Dinizulu, son of King Cetshwayo, and his family were exiled to the Island in 1890 for nine years.7 KB (1,176 words) - 20:46, 25 June 2018
- ...became King Harold II; the last Anglo-Saxon King of the English. Although King Harold's lands were granted to different persons by William the Conqueror,4 KB (701 words) - 11:34, 10 February 2017
- ...ong association with the crown" and because it was "the county town of the King's Duchy of Lancaster". ...castle in the background - geograph.org.uk - 945333.jpg|right|thumb|200px|King Street]]11 KB (1,701 words) - 10:51, 30 March 2016
- ...e principal port of Lancashire that in the run-up to the English Civil War King Charles I demanded a quarter more Ship money from Preston than from nearby **Christ the King Chapel21 KB (3,338 words) - 08:41, 31 March 2016
- ...nged to Stigand, Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1070 Stigand was deposed and King William confiscated his lands. William granted Thrupp to Roger d'Ivry, who5 KB (753 words) - 19:47, 28 January 2016
- ...for its penguins. Penguin species found here include rockhopper, macaroni, king and erect-crested penguins. Waterfowl include wild duck, grebe, and black-n4 KB (627 words) - 22:35, 15 August 2012
- ...enry Unton the diplomat. The house was visited by the queen in 1574 and by King James I in 1603.<ref name=Page/>3 KB (412 words) - 08:43, 19 August 2014
- ...was given a charter to hold a market in Churchgate on 14 December 1251 by King Henry III.<ref name=BolSocHist>{{cite web |title=Bolton's Social history |u30 KB (4,704 words) - 17:41, 22 July 2011
- ...f [[Port Egmont]]. He sailed near other islands, which he also claimed for King George III. A British settlement was built at Port Egmont in 1766. Also in30 KB (4,594 words) - 22:47, 5 April 2020
