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    Castle Hill, also called Mere Castle, was a medieval fortification built by Richard, the Earl of Cornwall, in 1253 on a hill overlooking the town of Mere...
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  • Yorkshire in England Castle Hill, Malvern Hills, in the parish of Wichenford Castle Hill, Mere, in Wiltshire, England Castle Hill, Oxfordshire, part of...
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    large 15th-century parish church. The steep slope of Castle Hill rises from the northwestern side of Mere. Local industry and commerce includes a trout farm...
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    Garden Avon Valley Path Barbury Castle Bentley Wood Bowood House Caen Hill Locks, Devizes Castle Combe village Castle Hill, Mere Central Government War Headquarters...
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    masons) and similar memorials are at Wynyard's Gap in North Dorset, Castle Hill, Mere in Wiltshire and Rough Tor in Cornwall. At dusk on 11 July, the 4th...
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    England was at Castle Hill, Mere, in Wiltshire, acquired on a 199-year lease from the Duchy of Cornwall and entrusted to the Parish Council of Mere. Next the...
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    Road. It sits atop a hill a mere 22 kilometers (14 miles) away from the capital. Reza Shamal, a local from Erbil said; "This castle is proof that Kurdish...
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    artificial meres were built around the castle, which was expanded in fashionable brick. With a large, wealthy household to maintain, the castle purchased...
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    division's first major offensive action of its own was Operation Jupiter, to take Hill 112, which had been briefly captured by British armour during 'Epsom' but...
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    Harmer comes from the two words "hare" and "mere", as there was a lake situated in a plain below the hill, but it was drained in the 15th century for...
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  • End Brindleyplace Bromford Browns Green Buckland End California Camp Hill Castle Vale Chad Valley Chinese Quarter Churchfield Cofton Common Cotteridge...
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    87–9, 100–6, 143–9. Saunders, Hill 112, p. 124. Buckley, p. 92. Ellis, Normandy, pp. 317–8. Essame, pp. 37–50. Saunders, Hill 112. Buckley, pp. 153–68. Ellis...
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    whilst the third, Skipsea Mere, was possibly created as part of the defences for the castle. All the water from the meres has either drained away naturally...
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    Hearst Castle, known formally as La Cuesta Encantada (Spanish for "The Enchanted Hill"), is a historic estate in San Simeon, located on the Central Coast...
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    amphibians. Dunstanburgh Castle was built in the centre of a designed medieval landscape, surrounded by three artificial lakes called meres covering a total of...
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    dolphins and a gated entrance; the stone bridge across Chapel Mere is also listed. Chapel The castle's private chapel, dedicated to St Nicholas, is of a much...
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    Mountjoy Castle is situated near the village of Brockagh, in Magheralamfield townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, on a hill overlooking Lough Neagh...
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    mere, which used to supply the castle with fish. It is managed by the Suffolk Wildlife Trust. A nature walk in woodland can be made around the mere....
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  • List of licences to crenellate (category Castles in England)
    Town) 1253 July 5, Richard, Earl of Cornwall, on the hill above his manor of Mere (Castle Hill, Mere, Wiltshire). Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall 1257 Dec...
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  • Farley Hall Farley Castle Fawley Manor Fernhill Park Foliejon Park Folly Farm Foxhill House Frogmore House Great House at Sonning Haines Hill Hall Place Hartley...
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    Keynes Castle Bincknoll Castle Castle Combe Castle Castle Orchard Lewisham Castle Malmesbury Castle Marlborough Castle Mere Castle Norwood Castle Sherrington...
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  • My Mother's Castle (original French title: Le château de ma mère) is a 1990 French film directed by Yves Robert, based on the book of the same name by...
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  • Old Sarum Old Wardour Ashton Keynes Bincknoll Castle Combe Orchard Lewisham Malmesbury Marlborough Mere Norwood Sherrington Stapleford Hartlebury Caldwall...
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  • Calatañazor Castle, Spain (Eagles Castle Castle – from Arabic Qal'at an-Nusur, 'Castle of the Eagles') Calatayud Castle, Spain (Jewish Castle Castle – from...
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    Tomberg date to the 4th century and point to its use by the Romans. The hill castle was constructed around the year 900 and was expanded in later centuries...
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    The Moorish Castle is the name given to a medieval fortification in Gibraltar comprising various buildings, gates, and fortified walls, with the dominant...
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    of the castle across the mere, and the village of Skipsea soon grew up alongside the church. Drogo settled 10 knights on lands near the castle in an arrangement...
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    political prisoner in the mount; La Mère Poulard, famous restaurant; Anne Boutiaut Poulard, creator of the Omelette de la mère Poulard. Tiphaine Raguenel, Breton...
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    at books.google.com: "Fisherton de la Mere, so named after its ancient lords, the De la Meres of Nunney Castle." Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition...
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  • From a Basement on the Hill is the sixth and final studio album by the American singer-songwriter Elliott Smith. Recorded from 2000 to 2003, and faced...
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