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Somerton Castle

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Somerton Castle is located approximately one mile west of the village of Boothby Graffoe in Lincolnshire, England and to the south of the city of Lincoln, England. [1]

40 relations: Antony Bek (bishop of Durham), Barkby, Bassingham, Battle of Poitiers, Battlement, Boothby Graffoe, Caister Castle, Caister-on-Sea, Charles I of England, Cooling Castle, Duchy of Lancaster, Edward II of England, Edward James Willson, Enclosure (archaeology), English Heritage, Flanders, George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, Henry VI of England, Heritage at Risk, High Sheriff of Lincolnshire, John Fastolf, John II of France, Licence to crenellate, Limestone, Lincoln Cliff, Lincoln, England, Lincolnshire, Listed building, Manor, Maxstoke Castle, Moat, North Kesteven, River Trent, Samuel and Nathaniel Buck, Shilling (English coin), Sir Montague Cholmeley, 1st Baronet, Stoke Rochford, Trapezoid, Waddington, Lincolnshire, Wingfield Castle.

Antony Bek (bishop of Durham)

Antony Bek (also spelled Beck and Beke; died 3 March 1311) was a medieval bishop of Durham.

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Barkby

Barkby is a village and civil parish in the Charnwood district of Leicestershire, England.

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Bassingham

Bassingham is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.

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Battle of Poitiers

The Battle of Poitiers was fought on 19 September 1356 in Nouaillé, near the city of Poitiers in Aquitaine, western France.

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Battlement

A battlement in defensive architecture, such as that of city walls or castles, comprises a parapet (i.e., a defensive low wall between chest-height and head-height), in which gaps or indentations, which are often rectangular, occur at intervals to allow for the launch of arrows or other projectiles from within the defences.

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Boothby Graffoe

Boothby Graffoe is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.

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Caister Castle

Caister Castle is a 15th-century moated castle situated in the parish of West Caister, some north of the town of Great Yarmouth in the English county of Norfolk.

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Caister-on-Sea

Caister-on-Sea, also known colloquially as Caister, is a village in Norfolk in England, United Kingdom, close to the large town of Great Yarmouth.

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Charles I of England

Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.

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Cooling Castle

Cooling Castle is a 14th-century quadrangular castle in the village of Cooling, Kent on the Hoo Peninsula about north of Rochester.

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Duchy of Lancaster

The Duchy of Lancaster is, since 1399, the private estate of the British sovereign as Duke of Lancaster.

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Edward II of England

Edward II (25 April 1284 – 21 September 1327), also called Edward of Carnarvon, was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed in January 1327.

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Edward James Willson

Edward James Willson, F.S.A., (1787–1854) was an English architect, antiquary, architectural writer, and mayor of Lincoln in 1851-2.

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Enclosure (archaeology)

In archaeology, an enclosure is one of the most common types of archaeological site.

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English Heritage

English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a registered charity that manages the National Heritage Collection.

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Flanders

Flanders (Vlaanderen, Flandre, Flandern) is the Dutch-speaking northern portion of Belgium, although there are several overlapping definitions, including ones related to culture, language, politics and history.

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George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence

George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, 1st Earl of Salisbury, 1st Earl of Warwick (21 October 144918 February 1478) was the third surviving son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, and the brother of English Kings Edward IV and Richard III.

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Henry VI of England

Henry VI (6 December 1421 – 21 May 1471) was King of England from 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, and disputed King of France from 1422 to 1453.

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Heritage at Risk

Heritage at Risk are heritage assets, such as listed buildings, or scheduled monuments that are at risk as a result of neglect, decay or inappropriate development, or are vulnerable to becoming so.

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High Sheriff of Lincolnshire

This is a list of High Sheriffs of Lincolnshire.

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John Fastolf

Sir John Fastolf KG (1380 – 5 November 1459) was a medieval English warrior, knight, and landowner, who was active during the Hundred Years' War in France.

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John II of France

John II (Jean II; 26 April 1319 – 8 April 1364), called John the Good (French: Jean le Bon), was a monarch of the House of Valois who ruled as King of France from 1350 until his death.

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Licence to crenellate

In medieval England, Wales and the Channel Islands a licence to crenellate (or licence to fortify) granted the holder permission to fortify their property.

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Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.

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Lincoln Cliff

The Lincoln Cliff or Lincoln Edge (also known as the Trent Cliff.) is the portion of a major escarpment that runs north–south through Lindsey and Kesteven in central Lincolnshire and is a prominent landscape feature in a generally flat portion of the county.

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Lincoln, England

Lincoln is a cathedral city and the county town of Lincolnshire in the East Midlands of England.

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Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in east central England.

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Listed building

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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Manor

A manor in English law is an estate in land to which is incident the right to hold a court termed court baron, that is to say a manorial court.

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Maxstoke Castle

Maxstoke Castle is a privately owned moated castle dating from medieval times situated to the north of Maxstoke, Warwickshire, England.

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Moat

A moat is a deep, broad ditch, either dry or filled with water, that is dug and surrounds a castle, fortification, building or town, historically to provide it with a preliminary line of defence.

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North Kesteven

North Kesteven is a local government district in the East Midlands.

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River Trent

The River Trent is the third-longest river in the United Kingdom.

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Samuel and Nathaniel Buck

Samuel Buck (1696 – 17 August 1779) and his brother Nathaniel Buck (died 1759/1774) were English engravers and printmakers, best known for their Buck's Antiquities, depictions of ancient castles and monasteries.

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Shilling (English coin)

The English shilling was a silver coin of the Kingdom of England, when first introduced known as the testoon.

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Sir Montague Cholmeley, 1st Baronet

Sir Montague Cholmeley, 1st Baronet (20 March 1772 – 10 March 1831) was a British politician and baronet.

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Stoke Rochford

Stoke Rochford is a small village and civil parish south of Grantham in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.

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Trapezoid

In Euclidean geometry, a convex quadrilateral with at least one pair of parallel sides is referred to as a trapezoid in American and Canadian English but as a trapezium in English outside North America.

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Waddington, Lincolnshire

Waddington is a large rural commuter village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, situated approximately south of Lincoln on the A607 Grantham Road.

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Wingfield Castle

Wingfield Castle, Wingfield, Suffolk, England was the ancestral home of the Wingfield family and their heirs, the De La Poles, Earls and Dukes of Suffolk, but is now a private house.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerton_Castle

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