Peel towers (also spelt pele) are small fortified keeps or tower houses, built along the English and Scottish borders in the Scottish Marches and North...
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See peel tower for the generic structure The Peel Monument at Ramsbottom, Lancashire, England, is one of two monuments in the area erected in memory of...
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Look up Peel, peel, or peeling in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Peel or Peeling may refer to: Peel (Western Australia) Peel, New South Wales Peel River...
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Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet FRS (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850), was a British Conservative statesman who twice was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom...
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was given the name Tower as a local link to both towns in the station's coverage area; Turton Tower near to Bolton and Peel Tower on Holcombe Hill at...
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unstable Scottish Marches along the border between England and Scotland the peel tower was the typical residence of the wealthy, with others being built by the...
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Scotland#Vernacular architecture (section) Bastille La Haye Sainte Peel tower Scottish Vernacular Tower house Tower houses in Britain and Ireland Vernacular architecture...
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they include peel towers and bastle houses. Some are still intact and even inhabited today, while others stand as ruined shells. Tower houses are often...
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List of house types (section Tower)
Albanian tower house Peel tower or Pele tower: fortified tower houses in England and Scotland used as keeps or houses Vainakh tower: a tower house found...
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Smailholm Tower is a peel tower at Smailholm, around five miles (8 km) west of Kelso in the Scottish Borders. Its dramatic situation, atop a crag of Lady...
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The Peel P50 is a three-wheeled microcar originally made from 1962 to 1965 by the Peel Engineering Company on the Isle of Man, and then from 2010 to present...
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Peel Castle (Cashtal Phurt ny h-Inshey in Manx Gaelic) is a castle in Peel in the Isle of Man, originally constructed by Norwegians. The castle stands...
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Hawkshaw, Scottish Borders (category Peel towers in the Scottish Borders)
tower; this was probably one of a series of so-called Peel towers, small fortified keeps built along the Scottish Borders, intended as watch towers where...
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The ruins of The Peel of Castle Semple or the Castle Semple Loch Peel Tower, once designated in Scottish Reformation times as the Defender of the Faith...
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Martello towers, sometimes known simply as Martellos, are small defensive forts that were built across the British Empire during the 19th century, from...
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Lancashire. See centre points of the United Kingdom. A Border reivers' Peel Tower, circa 15th century, is now part of the Centre of Britain hotel and the...
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fort Office tower Peel tower, a small fortified keep or tower house Radio tower Siege tower or breaching tower Telecommunications tower (disambiguation)...
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mid-1850s to 1860. The design showed a tower in the Scottish Baronial style that could be understood as a peel tower and a symbol of the landlord as a chivalrous...
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Corby Castle (category Peel towers in Cumbria)
4th Duke of Norfolk, who added a two-storied L-shaped house onto the peel tower. Corby Castle has an early-18th century landscape garden. Henry Howard...
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buildings that could account for the Tower appellation. Malkin Tower may have incorporated a Norman peel tower, built as a defence against Scottish raiders...
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Arnside Tower is a late-medieval tower house (or Pele tower) between Arnside and Silverdale immediately to the south of Arnside Knott in Cumbria, England...
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Wynyard, ancestors of the Marquesses of Londonderry. Embleton Tower is a Grade I listed Peel tower in the village, which previously incorporated the vicarage...
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organisation took its present form. Inspired by the Peel Tower near his native Bury, Whittaker retained the name Peel Mills Ltd for his property and cotton business...
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During the occupation of Scotland, the English posted a battalion in the Peel tower on the outskirts of the village to protect this important ferry. It is...
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Dovenby Hall (category Peel towers in Cumbria)
Grade II listed building. The oldest part of the estate is a 13th-century peel tower. The main house was built for Sir Thomas Lamplugh in the 16th century...
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Brackenhill Tower is a peel tower, in the parish of Arthuret, in Cumbria, just north of the River Lyne. The site is about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Kirklinton...
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Wrae Tower is a ruined 16th-century stone tower house, located in the upper Tweed Valley in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, and similarly south...
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Oliver Castle (category Peel towers in the Scottish Borders)
although the site of the tower house is less certain. Mentioned in a document of c.1200, it was originally part of the line of peel towers along the Tweed Valley...
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Preston Tower is a fourteenth-century pele tower in Preston, Northumberland, England built in 1392. The tower is now a private museum. "Preston Tower". Preston...
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into the Early Modern era, leading to the construction of many castles, peel towers and bastle houses, and the early modern fortifications at Berwick-upon-Tweed...
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