Corfe Castle is a fortification standing above the village of the same name on the Isle of Purbeck peninsula in the English county of Dorset. Built by...

Corfe Castle is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. It is the site of a ruined castle of the same name. The village and castle...

of Henry John Ralph Bankes, along with Corfe Castle. The house and gardens are open to the public. The Kingston Lacy estate originally formed part of a...

1877, Kingston had been a chapelry of Corfe Castle. A chapel stood on the east side of the village and it was served by the Rector of Corfe Castle or his...

Corfe Castle, and burnt down in 1680. The town hall was commissioned by the lord of the manor, Henry Bankes the Younger, whose seat was at Kingston Lacy...

General and Chief Justice to Charles I during the English Civil War. Corfe Castle, his family seat was destroyed during a long siege, in which his wife...

history and development of the country. The first family seat was in Corfe Castle which was destroyed during the civil war when the Bankeses, who were...

was a British Tory politician, who served as Member of Parliament for Corfe Castle. Bankes was the son of Sir Ralph Bankes MP (son of Sir John Bankes, Chief...

builder of Kingston Lacy, the restored seat of the Bankes family, designed by architect Sir Roger Pratt. Bankes was born at Corfe Castle, Dorset, the...

of Kingston Lacy and Corfe Castle, and great-grandson of Sir John Bankes, MP and chief justice of the common pleas, who acquired the manor and castle of...

National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 11 February 2016. Kingston (near Corfe Castle) Archived 2014-07-15 at the Wayback Machine at www.kingstonopc...

trouble-shooter. He thus served as Constable of Sherborne Castle, and Governor of Corfe Castle, both in Dorset. He undertook an important diplomatic assignment...

Chaldon Herring, Church Knowle, Coombe Keynes, Corfe Castle East Lulworth, East Stoke Harman's Cross Kingston, Kimmeridge Langton Matravers, Lytchett Matravers...

access was brought to an end. Bankes was the last private owner of Corfe Castle and Kingston Lacy. On his death, he left £50,000 to each of his children and...

Bankes (née Hawtry; c. 1598 – 11 April 1661) was a Royalist who defended Corfe Castle from a three-year siege during the English Civil War from 1643 to 1645...

Maybank, Colehill, Compton Abbas, Compton Valence, Coombe Keynes, Corfe Castle, Corfe Mullen, Corscombe, County Gates, Cranborne, Creekmoor, Crendell,...

2 kilometres (1 mi) southwest of the village Kingston, about 5 kilometres (3 mi) south of Corfe Castle and 8 kilometres (5 mi) west of Swanage. Although...

"Corfe Castle" Archived 2012-10-06 at the Wayback Machine PSC. "Lulworth Castle" Archived 2012-10-09 at the Wayback Machine PSC. "Pennsylvania Castle"...

Yewstock School, Sturminster Newton Kingston Maurward College, Dorchester Weymouth College, Weymouth Castle Court School, Corfe Mullen Dumpton School, Wimborne...

is a Grade I listed building. From the 12th century, Kingston was a chapelry of nearby Corfe Castle, served by a chapel of ease in the east of the village...

provide access to playing fields from Dorset Road) is now located at Corfe Castle station on the Swanage Railway, following its removal on closure of the...

(3.2 km) west of Swanage town centre and 5 miles (8 km) south-east of Corfe Castle. In the 2011 Census the civil parish had 381 households and a population...

England. Church Knowle village is situated about 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Corfe Castle, 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Wareham and 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Swanage...

capacity as custodian of the royal castles of Corfe (1221 and 1224) and Sherborne (1224) in Dorset and of the castles of Peveril and Bolsover in Derbyshire...

Arkell, W. J. (1947), Geology of the country round Weymouth, Swanage, Corfe Castle and Lulworth. London: HMSO for British Geological Survey. Clements, R...

the family estate at Kingston Lacy, including a lucrative lead mine in Cumberland. He represented the close borough of Corfe Castle from 1780 to 1826; in...

stretches from the coast northwards to, and just beyond, the A351 road from Corfe Castle to Swanage. The village of Worth Matravers is situated on side roads...

Giant Clouds Hill Corfe Castle Eggardon Hill Hambledon Hill Hardy Monument Hardy's Cottage Hod Hill Kingston Lacy Lambert's Castle Lewesdon Hill Max Gate...

barons were taken away and imprisoned at various royal-held castles, such as Corfe Castle. Of the siege, the Barnwell chronicler wrote "No one alive can...

Bankes was the third son of Henry Bankes MP of Kingston Hall, Dorsetshire, who represented Corfe Castle for nearly fifty years, and of Frances, daughter...