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Carlisle Castle, Cumberland

Keywords: castles, ruins, hills, clouds, sheep, trees, people

Places shown: Carlisle; Cumberland; England

Added: 2006-01-11

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Knight and Hermit

A knight in armour carrying a shield is on foot, leading his horse. He stands by a tree in front of a church or monastery door. A bearded monk beckons him in, pointing towards the open door. In a nic [...]

Keywords: castles, trees, hills, towers, knights, animals, horses, monks, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-11

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Plate 14. The Wye at Aberedwy.

Drawn by H. Gastineau, Engraved by S. Lacey.

A stunning view of the Wye Valley. The modern name of Aberedwy is Aberedw.

Keywords: trees, hills, water

Places shown: Aberedw; Pembrokeshire; Wales

Added: 2006-06-30

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Frontispiece: Lâon, View From the Plain

The Cathedral of Lâon, or Laon, Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Laon, was built in the 12th century. “Voillet-le-Duc, in his review of the cathedral of Lâon, says that it has a certain ring of democracy and [...]

Keywords: colour, cityscapes, views, cathedrals, sheep, hills, trees

Places shown: Lâon; Picardy; France

Added: 2006-06-29

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424.—Peverel Castle

“One of the most grandly situated of castles is that of Peveril of the Peak (FIg. 424), built by a natural son of the Conquerer [i.e. a son of William the Conquerer], whose name it bars. This was some [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, hills, animals, trees, houses, wallpaper, backgrounds, views

Places shown: Castleton; Derbyshire; England

Added: 2005-12-20

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33.—Carnbré Castle

There are two places called Carn Brae in Cornwall; one is the site of a medieval chapel and the other a castle. I think that this is the castle, near Redruth. “But there are many remarkable groups of [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, rocks, hills, backgrounds, wallpaper

Places shown: Carnbrea; Cornwall; England

Added: 2005-12-20

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421.—Ludlow Castle

Ludlow was the capital of Wales in the 16th Century, and this 12th Century (or earlier) castle was the centre for administration. Today it is in ruins, having declined since the engraving was made, b [...]

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

Places shown: Ludlow; Shropshire; England

Added: 2005-12-20

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77.—British Camp at caer Caradoc.—From Roy’s Military Antiquities.

Major-General William Roy produced The Military Antiquities of the Romans in Britain in 1793. The Roman walls, the Saxon towers, the Norman cathedral, which have successively crowned this hill, have p [...]

Keywords: forts, hills

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-08-03

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832.—Harlech Castle

An impressive castle built by Edward I in the 13th Century. There are more pictures of Harlech in Oman.

Keywords: castles, hills, water, towers, wallpaper, backgrounds, views

Places shown: Harlech; Gwynedd; Wales

Added: 2005-12-20

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76.—The Herefordshire Beacon.

There are disagreements about whether the Herefordshire Beacon is the remains of an iron-age hill fort or perhaps is an unfinished Norman motte-and-bailey castle of the 11th century; an excavation in [...]

Keywords: celts, earthworks, castles, hills, views, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Colwall; Malvern; Herefordshire; England

Added: 2007-07-24

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87.—Country near Dover.

“In the latter part of the summer of the year 55 B. C. (Halley, the astronomer, has gone far to prove that the exact day was the 26th of August), a Roman fleet crossed the Channel, bearing the infantr [...]

Keywords: views, hills, sheep

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-09-15

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419.—Warkworth Castle

Dates from the 12th Century but extensvely modified in the 14th and 15th Centuries. Ruined.

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

Places shown: Warkworth; Northumberland; England

Added: 2005-12-20

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