Southampton Castle was located in the town of Southampton in Hampshire, England. Constructed after the Norman conquest of England, it was located in the...
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transit between the then capital of England, Winchester, and Normandy. Southampton Castle was built in the 12th century and surviving remains of 12th-century...
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The inaugural sailing of Dane left Southampton on 15 September. Meanwhile, Donald Currie had built up the Castle Packet Co. which traded to Calcutta...
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RMMV Stirling Castle was a British ocean liner of the Union-Castle Line built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast for the Southampton to South Africa mail service...
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built a castle in Southampton but made no attempts to improve the wider defences of the town until the early 13th century, when Southampton's growing...
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Transvaal Castle was a British ocean liner built by John Brown & Company at Clydebank for the Union-Castle Line for their mail service between Southampton and...
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from France and the Holy Roman Empire and defend Southampton Water as it met the Solent. The castle had a keep at its centre, surrounded by a curtain...
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George Mayhew of the Union-Castle fleet, she set out from Southampton bound for Durban. The shipping press voted Pendennis Castle as the "ship of the year"...
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Hampshire (redirect from County of Southampton)
Hurst Castle, situated on a sand spit at the mouth of the Solent, Calshot Castle on another spit at the mouth of Southampton Water, and Netley Castle. Southampton...
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Southampton is a city in Hampshire, England. The area has been settled since the Stone Age. Its history has been affected by its geographical location...
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superb memorial brass of 1378 to Sir John Foxley, the Constable of Southampton Castle, and his two wives. One of the local cottages has a tunnel which it...
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Capetown Castle was a British passenger liner built by Harland & Wolff at Belfast for the Union-Castle Line's mail service from Southampton to South Africa...
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castles in England to property developers, including York and Southampton Castle. A royal inspection in 1609 highlighted that the Edwardian castles of...
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Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton (21 December 1505 – 30 July 1550), KG was an English peer, secretary of state, Lord Chancellor and Lord High...
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delivery sailing with Union-Castle office staff acting as passengers, Windsor Castle's commercial maiden voyage was from Southampton to Durban on 18 August...
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Southampton is a passenger and cargo port in the central part of the south coast of England. The modern era in the history of the Port of Southampton...
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Acton Castle, Allerton Castle, Augill Castle, Avon Castle, Bell's Castle, Bolesworth Castle, Bude Castle, Castle Eden Castle, Castle Goring, Cave Castle, Cholmondeley...
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Duke of Cleveland (redirect from The Duke of Southampton)
creation in 1670 (along with the barony of Nonsuch and the earldom of Southampton) was for Barbara Castlemaine, a mistress of King Charles II. The dukedom...
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between Southampton and Cape Town. Arundel Castle made her 211th and final voyage in 1958, leaving Cape Town on 5 December and arriving in Southampton on 19...
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Fortified gateway (category Castle architecture)
Sighișoara Westgate at Canterbury Balkerne Gate at Colchester Bargate, Southampton Castle Upton in Templepatrick, Northern Ireland Kingsgate and Westgate, Winchester...
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Water gate (category Castle architecture)
Bristol Castle Newport Castle Southampton Castle The Traitors' Gate at the Tower of London Irrigation gate Moat Marilyn Stokstad, Medieval Castles, p.175...
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Southampton Water is a tidal estuary north of the Solent and the Isle of Wight in England. The city of Southampton lies at its most northerly point, where...
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RMMV Athlone Castle was a British passenger liner built by Harland & Wolff for the Union-Castle Line's mail service from Southampton to Cape Town, South...
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August 1415), of Heaton Castle in the parish of Norham, Northumberland, was one of the three conspirators in the failed Southampton Plot against King Henry...
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1403 to 1404 He was appointed: Chaplain of the King’s Free Chapel in Southampton Castle 1392 Archpriest of the Oratory of Holy Trinity, Barton, Isle of Wight...
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granted to QM2 by Royal Mail when she entered service in 2004 on the Southampton to New York route as a gesture to Cunard's history. The Royal Mail continues...
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Highclere Castle /ˈhaɪklɪər/ is a Grade I listed country house built in 1679 and largely renovated in the 1840s, with a park designed by Capability Brown...
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Years' War. He served the king as Custodian of Southampton Castle in 1361 and then as Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports in 1370. He...
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Hamptons, part of the East End of Long Island, consist of the towns of Southampton and East Hampton, which together compose the South Fork of Long Island...
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remain with Union-Castle's RMS Windsor Castle, and the two smaller cargo/passenger mailships RMMV Good Hope Castle and RMMV Southampton Castle. In October 1977...
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