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Kenilworth Castle is a castle in the town of Kenilworth in Warwickshire, England, managed by English Heritage; much of it is in ruins. The castle was founded after the Norman Conquest of 1066; with development through to the Tudor period. It has been described by the architectural historian Anthony Emery as "the finest surviving example of a ...
That castle may have been worth the equivalent of 23m or it may have been worth much less as building the same building today might only cost 500 thousand pounds--converting nominal to real prices over long periods of profound growth invariably forces us to mix price and value and the result is messy.
The Two Castles Run began in 1983 as a fun run between Warwick Castle and Kenilworth Castle. [61] It has grown into an English Athletics-licensed run with 3,000 entrants in 2010. [62] In 2010 and 2011 it held the Warwickshire Amateur Athletic Association 10 Kilometre Championship. In 2012 all 4,000 places were sold within 25 hours.
The first guidebook to Kenilworth Castle followed in 1777 with many later editions following in the coming decades. [290] By the 1780s and 1790s visitors were beginning to progress as far as Chepstow, where an attractive female guide escorted tourists around the ruins as part of the popular Wye Tour. [291]
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Kenilworth Castle was built at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast, United Kingdom and launched on 15 December 1903 before being completed on 19 May 1904. The ship was 173.78 metres (570 ft 2 in) long and had a beam of 19.71 metres (64 ft 8 in).
A priory for Augustinian canons was built on this site in about 1124 by Geoffrey de Clinton, [1] which is about the same time as he built Kenilworth Castle.Gardens and pools were made near to the priory, and the priory gained additional land as gifts from Geoffrey de Clinton.
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