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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 ...
Kenilworth's new Castle Farm Recreation Centre is to open after the former building was demolished.
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.
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.
The siege of Kenilworth (21 June – December 1266), also known as the great siege of 1266, was a six-month siege of Kenilworth Castle and a battle of the Second Barons' War. The siege was a part of an English civil war fought from 1264 to 1267 by the forces of Simon de Montfort against the Royalist forces led by Prince Edward (later Edward I ...
The castle was taken in a surprise attack by the forces of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, from Kenilworth Castle in 1264. [3] According to 15th-century chronicler John Rous, the walls along the northeastern side of Warwick Castle were slighted, so "that it should be no strength to the king". [3]
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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