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Skenfrith Castle

Skenfrith Castle

Castles (1926)

The three castles differ from each other in situation and character. Skenfrith, the smallest of the three, and the one which was least pulled about by its later owners, lies low, at a point where a la [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, overgrown, towers, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Skenfrith; Monmouthshire; Wales

Added: 2007-12-09

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Stokesay Castle

Stokesay Castle

Castles (1926)

Solar Room

Keywords: interiors, windows, fireplaces, manors

Places shown: Stokesay; Shropshire; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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Chirk Castle

Chirk Castle

Castles (1926)

The Courtyard.

Keywords: castles, manors, windows, doors, towers, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Chirk; Denbighshire; Wales

Added: 2004-03-04

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Abergavenny Castle

Abergavenny Castle

Castles (1926)

There has been a castle at Abergavenny since around 1087, but today’s ruins were built in the 13th and 14th centuries. Today there is a gate with barbican and a couple of towers. There are some mode [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, trees, people

Places shown: Abergavenny; Monmouthshire; Wales

Added: 2003-09-15

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Penrice Castle: The Gate-House.

Penrice Castle: The Gate-House.

Castles (1926)

“This is the largest, but not [according to Sir Charles Oman] the most interesting, of the three castles of Gower. For though its enciente, round keep and gate-house are standing, it as as mere masses [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins

Places shown: Penrice; Gower Peninsula; Glamorgan; Wales

Added: 2006-03-15

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Chepstow Castle

Chepstow Castle

Castles (1926)

Martin’s Tower.There is another picture of Chepstow Castle in Woodward’s History of Wales book, and I have typed in Oman’s short account of the history of Chepstow Castle. I don’t know how accurate i [...]

Keywords: castles, entrances, windows, doors

Places shown: Chepstow; Monmouthshire; Wales

Added: 2004-03-04

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Carew Castle

Carew Castle

Castles (1926)

Sir John Perrot’s Building.

Keywords: castles, ruins, windows, water, towers

Places shown: Pembroke; Pembrokeshire; Wales

Added: 2004-03-04

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Broughton Castle

Broughton Castle

Castles (1926)

The Barbican or Outer GateStarted in AD 1300 or so by Sir John de Broughton and granted a licence to crenellate (that is, to fortify it and add the embrasures for archers ontop of the roof) in 1406, B [...]

Keywords: water, towers, bridges, entrances, castles, manors

Places shown: Broughton; Banbury; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-06-16

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Upton Castle: The Gate-House

Upton Castle: The Gate-House

Castles (1926)

Situated on a narrow creek running up from Milford Haven—quite a separate one from that on which Carew lies, but only two and a half miles from that great castle, is a smaller stronghold, very typical [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, battlements, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Upton; Pembrokeshire; Wales

Added: 2009-04-04

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Harlech Castle

Harlech Castle

Castles (1926)

The View from the South West

lecari took a picture of Harlech Castle in 2003.

Keywords: towers, castles, houses, hills, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Harlech; Gwynedd; Wales

Added: 2004-03-04

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[p.137] Stokesay Castle

[p.137] Stokesay Castle

Castles (1926)

The Courtyard.

See also Gotch, Growth of the English House.

Keywords: manors, towers, windows, arches, entrances

Places shown: Stokesay; Shropshire; England

Added: 2005-12-21

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Stokesay Castle

Stokesay Castle

Castles (1926)

Exterior of the Northern Tower.

Keywords: towers, manors, castles, windows

Places shown: Stokesay; Shropshire; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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