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    Cooling Castle is a 14th-century quadrangular castle in the village of Cooling, Kent on the Hoo Peninsula about 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Rochester. It...
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     1497 – 29 September 1558) KG, lord of the Manor of Cobham, Kent and of Cooling Castle, Kent, was an English peer, soldier and magnate, who participated in...
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    the Conqueror). The most notable surviving feature of the village is Cooling Castle, built on the edge of the marshes during the 12th century to defend...
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    Castle in Warwickshire, Wingfield Castle in Suffolk and, in particular Cooling Castle near Rochester in Kent. These castles are set in moats with roughly...
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  • had obtained "royal recognition, acknowledgement and compliment." At Cooling Castle in Kent, a brass plaque on the outer gatehouse, an engraved charter...
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    Sluys as early as 1340. Inverted 'keyhole' gun loops at Bodiam Castle, Cooling Castle, and the Westgate, Canterbury, have all been identified as for firing...
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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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    TV series The Prisoner. He also owns a manor house near the medieval Cooling Castle in Kent. He appeared on the cover of Railway Modeller magazine in January...
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    his religious beliefs. When Oldcastle fled from Windsor Castle to his own castle at Cooling, Henry at last consented to a prosecution. Oldcastle refused...
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    a daughter of Thomas Brooke, 8th Baron Cobham, of Cobham Hall and Cooling Castle both in Kent, by his wife, Dorothy Heydon, a daughter of Sir Henry Heydon...
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    musician and the host of Later... with Jools Holland, lives in the Cooling Castle on the Hoo Peninsula. River Medway, a contestant on RuPaul's Drag Race...
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    volcanic pipe which cut through the surrounding sedimentary rock, before cooling to form very hard dolerite, a coarser-grained equivalent of basalt. Subsequent...
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  • born in Greenwich Musician Jools Holland, lives in Greenwich and at Cooling Castle, Kent Jazz and blues guitarist Billy Jenkins ran Wood Wharf rehearsal...
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  • Castle is an American crime mystery/comedy-drama television series that aired on ABC for a total of eight seasons from March 9, 2009, to May 16, 2016....
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  • to crenellate by Richard II in 1381 and built Cooling Castle at the family seat at Cowling or Cooling, Kent. Around 1332, Sir John married Margaret Courtenay...
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  • 1502). c. 1380 – Construction of Kuressaare Castle in modern-day Estonia started. 1380–1385 – Cooling Castle on the Thames Estuary of England. 1380–1392...
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    son and heir by his father's first wife. He built nearby Cooling Castle on his estate at Cooling, Kent, acquired by his ancestors in the mid-13th century...
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    "Church of St James, Cooling (1204117)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 20 November 2013 St James' Church, Cooling, Kent, Churches Conservation...
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    uncertain, but comparison with similar, dated, examples, such as those at Cooling Castle in Kent, suggests a construction period in the 14th century. They cannot...
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    defeated the Duke of Norfolk and seized six cannon. Wyatt then marched on Cooling Castle. The rebellion fizzled out, and Wyatt was executed, along with the captain...
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    A quadrangular castle or courtyard castle is a type of castle characterised by ranges of buildings which are integral with the curtain walls, enclosing...
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  • Baron Cobham (died 1558), lord of the Manor of Cobham, Kent and of Cooling Castle, Kent, and a brother of William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham (1527–1597)...
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    Oldcastle to appear in the Leeds Castle on 11 September 1413, but Oldcastle ignored the call and retreated to Cooling Castle, his keep. Arundel immediately...
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    630 kg/s of steam at 103.4 bar and 566 °C. Station cooling was by river water and four cooling towers. Castle Donington was one of the CEGB's twenty steam power...
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    Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham (1497–1558), of Cobham Hall and of nearby Cooling Castle, whose possession was secured by act of Parliament, the Cobham College...
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  • predeceased him. "BRAYBROOKE, Sir Reynold (C.1356-1405), of Cooling castle and Cobham, Kent and Castle Ashby and Chadstone, Northants. | History of Parliament...
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    phase of the Hundred Years' War. The attack prompted the building of Cooling Castle on Kent's Hoo Peninsula between 1380 and 1385 but there was initially...
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    Windsor Castle is a royal residence at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, about 25 miles (40 km) west of central London. It is strongly associated...
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  • Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (released in some international markets as Harold & Kumar Get the Munchies) is a 2004 American buddy stoner comedy film...
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    Following the $12 million renovation, the castle reopened on June 28, 2019, complete with a geothermal heating and cooling system that was installed by the Central...
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