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Peak Castle, Derbyshire: Plan of the Site. The Growth of the English House (1909)

Peak Castle is today known as Peveril Castle, and is high above the village of Castleton in the Peak District national park.“It is tolerably certain that romance had no part in the selection of this s [...]

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Places shown: Peveril Castle; Castleton; Derbyshire; England

Added: 2005-10-16

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8. The Peak Castle, Derbysire (1176) The Growth of the English House (1909)

“The keep itself, which was built in 1176, is very similar in arrangement to the peel-towers of the Scottish border and to the towers which elsewhere formed the nucleus of many fortified houses. It pr [...]

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Places shown: Peveril Castle; Castleton; Derbyshire; England

Added: 2006-01-11

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7. Peak Castle, Derbyshire The Growth of the English House (1909)

Plan of the KeepPeak Castle is more commonly known as Peveril Castle. See also Fig. 8.“Above the upper chamber was the roof, originally of steep pitch (see section, Fig. 9). but which may have been ra [...]

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Places shown: Peveril Castle; Castleton; Derbyshire; England

Added: 2006-01-11

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424.—Peverel Castle Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“One of the most grandly situated of castles is that ofPeverilof 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 c [...]

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Places shown: Castleton; Derbyshire; England

Added: 2005-04-16

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