Lydford Castle is a medieval castle in the town of Lydford, Devon, England. The first castle in Lydford, sometimes termed the Norman fort, was a small...
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Lydford, sometimes spelled Lidford, is a village and civil parish, in Devon, seven miles (11 km) north of Tavistock on the western fringe of Dartmoor...
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"Lydford Castle" Archived 2012-10-07 at the Wayback Machine PSC. "Marisco Castle" Archived 2012-10-05 at the Wayback Machine PSC. "Okehampton Castle"...
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public, managed by English Heritage. Castles in Great Britain and Ireland List of castles in England Lydford Castle, also used for forest courts Remfry...
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List of GWR 4073 Class locomotives (redirect from Tenby Castle (locomotive))
Below is a list of all 171 GWR Castle Class engines, built between August 1923 and August 1950. Five of these were converted to burn oil for a short period...
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administration. As part of his administrative work he became the first warden of Lydford Castle after it was constructed in the 1190s. In 1199 he was involved in a...
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a former Knight Templar, and his friend Simon Puttock, Bailiff of Lydford Castle. He founded The Medieval Murderers, a speaking and entertainment group...
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October 2023. p. 12. Bendall, Simon; Coward, Andy (April 2023). "Another GWR Castle power car stood down". Railways Illustrated. No. 242. Horncastle: Mortons...
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3769 taking on water at Shrewsbury station No. 9791 racing Castle Class No. 7006 Lydford Castle at Southall Llanelly depot - Nos. 7211 (7200 class), 1633...
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rectangular 11th-century keeps in Devon existed, including at Exeter Castle and Lydford Castle, and were typically associated with the king or major nobles....
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of the duchy – which was finally granted to Bonville for life – but Lydford Castle, the Forest of Dartmoor, and the Water of Exe. Hence, as his ally the...
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maintained control of huge tracts of lands through judges, constables, castles, and sheriffs, the nobles of England were still powerful. This is a list...
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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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Berry Pomeroy Bickleigh Compton Dartmouth Drogo Gidleigh Hemyock Kingswear Lydford Marisco Okehampton Plympton Powderham Rougemont Salcombe Tiverton Totnes...
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fined £160, but refused to pay the fine, whereupon he was imprisoned at Lydford Castle. He was released three weeks later by a letter from the Exchequer; at...
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traffic-free cycle/walkway between Okehampton (near the railway station) and Lydford. It was built by Devon County Council (DCC) and is part of the National...
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France takes control of Norman Vexin. Bushmead Priory founded. New stone Lydford Castle built in the Forest of Dartmoor. 1196 Spring – in London, a popular...
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Valley Shop Killerton Knightshayes Court Loughwood Meeting House Lundy Lydford Gorge Morte Point The Old Mill, Wembury Overbeck's Parke Plymbridge Woods...
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(2004) [1992]. Timber Castles. Exeter, UK: University of Exeter Press. ISBN 978-0-85989-753-2. Higham, Robert (2010). "Launceston, Lydford, Richard of Cornwall...
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influential figure in the field of castle studies, and directed excavations at Launceston Castle and Lydford Castle (both in Devon). Saunders was an active...
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Avernus with a Sarcophagus, at the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA Lydford Waterfall, Tavistock River at Penegoes The Garden of the Villa Madama,...
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practise, similar examples of this style of construction can be found at Lydford, Caldicot, and Skenfrith, amongst others. Only traces of the tower remain...
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the A37. The Fosse Way follows the A37 through Street-on-the-Fosse and Lydford-on-Fosse on a direct route to Ilchester. The route leaves the A37 north...
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Cranmore, East Harptree, East Horrington, East Huntspill, East Lambrook, East Lydford, East Lyng, Easton, Easton in Gordano, Eastover, East Pennard, East Quantoxhead...
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North Cadbury, South Cadbury, Castle Cary, Compton Pauncefoot, Keinton Mansfield, Kingweston, Lovington, West Lydford, Maperton, Queen Camel, Sparkford...
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include Hatherleigh, North Tawton, Whiddon Down, Chagford, Bratton Clovelly, Lydford, Folly Gate, Southcott, Northlew, Jacobstowe, Bridestowe and Sourton. "Okehampton...
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The parliament maintained its own gaol at Lydford and had a brutal and 'bloody' reputation (indeed Lydford law became a byword for injustice), and once...
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Torrington Loddiswell Loxbeare Loxhore Luffincott Lundy Luppitt Lustleigh Lydford Lympstone Lynmouth Lynton Maindea Malborough Malmsmead Mamhead Manaton...
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Vikings. The surprise attack on Lydford is ordered by the King of Denmark and Viking leader Sweyn Forkbeard (previously, Lydford was believed to be impregnable...
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