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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 .
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Kenilworth Castle The ruins of the gatehouse of Kenilworth Abbey. A settlement existed at Kenilworth by the time of the 1086 Domesday Book, which records it as Chinewrde. [2] Geoffrey de Clinton (died 1134) initiated the building of an Augustinian priory in 1122, [3] which coincided with his initiation of Kenilworth Castle. [4]
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Kenilworth's new Castle Farm Recreation Centre is to open after the former building was demolished.
The Princely Pleasures, at the Court at Kenilworth (1576) by George Gascoigne, is an account of courtly entertainments held by Robert Dudley, the first Earl of Leicester upon Queen Elizabeth I’s three weeks visit to his Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire in 1575.
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.
A plan of Kenilworth Castle shortly before the English Civil War by Wenceslas Hollar. The tiltyard is the large rectangle on the south east corner of the plan. A tiltyard (or tilt yard or tilt-yard) was an enclosed courtyard for jousting. Tiltyards were a common feature of Tudor era castles and palaces.