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    Wardour Castle or Old Wardour Castle is a ruined 14th-century castle at Wardour, on the boundaries of the civil parishes of Tisbury and Donhead St Andrew...
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    New Wardour Castle is a Grade I listed English country house at Wardour, near Tisbury in Wiltshire, built for the Arundell family. The house is of Palladian...
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    of art and accumulated immense debts in building and furnishing New Wardour Castle. He had no sons and was succeeded by his cousin, the ninth Baron. He...
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    Arundell of Wardour (née Lady Blanche Somerset; 1583 or c. 1584 – 28 October 1649) was an English noblewoman, known as the defender of Wardour Castle, that...
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    Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour (c. 1560 – 7 November 1639) was the eldest son of Sir Matthew Arundell of Wardour Castle in Wiltshire (ca. 1532/1534...
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    school. The school closed in July 1990. At New Wardour Castle (not to be confused with Wardour Castle) there were dormitories for girls in the 1st to...
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  • Civil War. In May 1643 the parliamentarians wrested his ancestral home Wardour Castle, in Wiltshire, from his mother Lady Blanche Arundell who was defending...
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  • Wardour may refer to: Vale of Wardour, a valley in Wiltshire, England Wardour, Wiltshire, a village and former parish Wardour Castle, a ruined castle...
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    Wardour Castle in Wiltshire, England, was besieged twice during the First English Civil War; once in May 1643, and then again between November 1643 and...
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    initially called the "Temple of Venus" Wardour Castle, 1770s. Built besides the newly picturesque ruins of the "Old Castle", a victim of the English Civil War...
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    Sir Matthew Arundell of Wardour Castle in Wiltshire (c. 1532-34 – 24 December 1598), known between 1552 and 1554 as Matthew Howard and after his death...
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    of art, he accumulated immense debts in building and furnishing New Wardour Castle, Wiltshire, designed in the Palladian style by Giacomo Quarenghi. A...
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  • John Francis Arundell, 16th Baron Arundell of Wardour JP TD (18 June 1907 – 25 September 1944) was a British soldier and member of the House of Lords...
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    having mistaken a long s for an l. At Wardour, some 2 miles (3 km) southwest of Tisbury, the 14th-century Wardour Castle was badly damaged in the 1640s during...
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    English noblewoman, the daughter of Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour by his second wife Anne Philipson, and wife of Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron...
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    Castle, Mereworth Castle, New Wardour Castle, Sherborne Castle, Wentworth Castle, and Wisbech Castle. Many other buildings with some castle-like features...
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    Sir Thomas Arundell of Wardour Castle in Wiltshire (c. 1502 – 26 February 1552) was a Cornish administrator and alleged conspirator. Arundell was connected...
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    rally on the slopes of Castle Yard (also known as Wadborough Hill), a wooded hill with the ruins of a motte and bailey castle, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km)...
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    relieve several garrisons (including Banbury, Basing House and Donnington Castle, near Newbury), which had been isolated while he had been campaigning in...
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  • Green Drive Railway Viaduct in Seaham, Tees Transporter Bridge, New Wardour Castle and Theatre Royal in Haymarket. Daldry remarked in an interview: "The...
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    French-influenced palatial castles featuring complex tower keeps at Wardour, Tattershall and Raglan Castle. In central and eastern England castles began to be built...
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    the ancient family of de Arundel of Lanherne, Cornwall and later of Wardour Castle. The arms borne by Reinfred de Arundel (d.c.1280), lord of the manor...
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    in 1240. The Wardour estate occupies the northeast of the parish. Wardour Castle, built in the 1390s and now known as Old Wardour Castle, straddles the...
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    Howard (c.1515–10 October 1572), who married Sir Thomas Arundell of Wardour Castle, and had issue Sir Matthew Arundell Charles Arundell Catherine Howard...
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    and Westmoreland. He arrived at the Royalist garrison at Knaresborough Castle 14 mi (23 km) north-west of York on 30 June. The allies were aware of Rupert's...
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    and his house on Park Lane, London. From 1770 to 1776, he built New Wardour Castle in Wiltshire (which featured as the Royal Ballet School in the film...
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  • Seacroft Moor Camp Hill Lichfield Ripple Field Reading Sourton Down 1st Wardour Castle Stratton Wakefield 1st Worcester Chalgrove Field Adwalton Moor 2nd Bradford...
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  • Aude, France, for the portrayal of Nottingham and its castle. Locksley Castle was Wardour Castle in Wiltshire—restored in an early shot using a matte painting...
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  • defensive arc with detachments on the high ground to the north at Restormel Castle and the high ground to the east at Beacon Hill. Essex also sent a small...
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    of Banbury sent messengers pleading for help to the garrison of Warwick Castle. Essex, who had just reached there, ordered an immediate march to Kineton...
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