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    Longtown Castle, also termed Ewias Lacey Castle in early accounts, is a ruined Norman motte-and-bailey fortification in Longtown, Herefordshire. It was...
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    Castle Longtown Castle Montacute Castle Nether Stowey Norwich Castle Nottingham Castle Okehampton Castle Old Sarum Castle Ongar Castle Oxford Castle Pickering...
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    "Kinnersley Castle" Archived 2012-10-09 at the Wayback Machine PSC. "Longtown Castle" Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine PSC. "Pembridge Castle" Archived...
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    north-south along the top of the Hatterall ridge. Longtown has an early Norman motte and bailey castle, Longtown Castle, and is so named because the settlement...
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  • Further motte and bailey castles were built at Walterstone, Llancillo, Rowlestone and Clodock, followed after 1216 by Longtown Castle, presiding over the newly...
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    southernmost point of Hatterall Hill, Oldcastle, Longtown Castle, and Urishay and Snodhill castles." Watkins referred to these lines as "leys" although...
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    pdf LibraryIreland.com Remfry, P.M., Longtown Castle, 1048 to 1241 (ISBN 1-899376-29-1) Remfry, P.M., The Castles of Ewias Lacy, 1048 to 1403 (ISBN 1-899376-37-2)...
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    Harold is recorded as building another fortress in the county at Longtown Castle. The castle would appear to have been refortified during The Anarchy of the...
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    Almeley Castle, Eardisley Castle, Icomb Place and Edgeworth Manor. He had an insecure lordship at Ewias Lacy now known as Longtown Castle on the modern...
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    Mackie & co. OCLC 5389146. Remfry, P.M., Longtown Castle, 1048 to 1241 (ISBN 1-899376-29-1) Remfry, P.M., The Castles of Ewias Lacy, 1048 to 1403 (ISBN 1-899376-37-2)...
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  • Heritage properties containing links for any stately home, historic house, castle, abbey, museum or other property in the care of English Heritage. List of...
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    the . H.M. Factory, Gretna stretched 9 miles (14 km) from Mossband near Longtown in the east, to Dornock / Eastriggs in the west straddling the Scottish-English...
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    (which defines the border between Scotland and England). Before passing Longtown the river enters England and merges with the River Lyne and enters the...
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  • Croft Downton Eastnor Goodrich Hampton Court Kentchurch Court Kinnersley Longtown Pembridge Snodhill Treago Wigmore Wilton Almeley Ashton Bredwardine Bronsil...
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  • School, Carlisle Castle Carrock Primary School, Castle Carrock Hensingham Primary School, Whitehaven Longtown Primary School, Longtown Newtown Primary...
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    large rural area with many villages and towns including Dalston, Brampton, Longtown, Wetheral, Bewcastle and Scotby. Cumberland Council, the local authority...
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    signifies 'edge' in Welsh) on the eastern side of the Hatterrall ridge west of Longtown. Another, at the northern end of the Skirrid just to the east of Abergavenny...
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    Brampton & Fellside; Cathedral & Castle; Currock & Upperby; Denton Holme & Morton South; Harraby South & Parklands; Longtown & the Border; Newtown & Morton...
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    built across the Welsh Marches at the time, including at Caldicot and Longtown. Earth was piled up around the 2-metre (6 ft 7 in) plinth at the base of...
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    be confused with Newton, a township-chapelry in Clodock Parish and near Longtown, or with Newton Leominister. Its postal address is in Wales, with Monmouth...
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  • Academy, Kirkland Lanercost CE Primary School, Lanercost Longtown Primary School, Longtown Lorton School, High Lorton Lowca Community School, Lowca Maryport...
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    but covered a far larger area which included the towns of Brampton and Longtown, as well as outlying villages including Dalston, Scotby and Wetheral. In...
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  • the youngest of four sisters. The Sweetman family were landed gentry of Longtown, County Kildare, and per family tradition were "long settled in Dublin"...
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    Richard Clement Moody (category Edinburgh Castle)
    Ownership, UCL". University College London. 2019. "The Moody Family, Some Longtown Families". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 4 July...
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  • Park, Livery Lower, Loan, Lockstown, Longfield, Long Gilbert, Longmore, Longtown, Loonburn, Losset, Loughan, Loughconnelly, Loughduff, Loughermore, Loughhill...
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    by-election was held for Currock & Upperby. A by-election was held in Longtown and the Border following the death of Conservative councillor Valerie Tarbitt...
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  • further than Hereford. He seems here to have built a fortification at Longtown in Herefordshire before refortifying Hereford. Shortly afterwards, Ælfgar...
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    The final stretch from Riddings struck out across the coastal plain to Longtown and then Carlisle. The first sod on the Border Union Railway was turned...
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    Carlisle Hethersgill County of Cumberland Kershopefoot Longtown Skitby Stapleton Ancroft Barmoor Castle Barrow Burn Beadnell Belford Berwick-upon-Tweed, and...
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    Mountains, following the Hatterall Ridge past Llanthony on the Welsh side and Longtown, Herefordshire on the English side, to reach the River Monnow near Pandy...
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