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    Queenborough Castle, also known as Sheppey Castle, is a 14th-century castle, the remnants of which are in the town of Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey...
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    as Cyningburh, "king's borough". A fortress, called Sheppey Castle or Queenborough Castle, was built to guard the passage of ships along the Swale upon...
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    Ayuntamiento de Palma Vista del Castillo de Bellver en Google Maps Castillo de Bellver en castillosnet.org Blue Tower (Gorinchem) Queenborough Castle...
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    on 13 November 1362. By then well established, he owned at least thirty castles and estates across England and France and maintained a household comparable...
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    (Newenden) Folkestone Castle Newnham Castle Queenborough Castle Sandown Castle Sandwich Castle Stowting Castle Thurnham Castle Castles of which only earthworks...
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    Hall near Eastchurch, in the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, Constable of Queenborough Castle and Sheriff of Kent in 1477, by his second wife, Margaret Young....
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    any visitors to London, English or French, would have passed by Queenborough Castle on the south bank and Hadleigh on the north, the combination communicating...
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    were thought to be foreigners so were arrested and imprisoned in Queenborough Castle before being released by the Mayor. Edward Jacob (1710–1788) purchased...
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    specialist contributor includes Kew Palace, Syon House, Greenwich Palace, Queenborough Castle, Hunstrete House, Chenies Manor Lost Worlds: The Pyramids (2008)...
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    Almeric Paget, 1st Baron Queenborough and his first wife, Pauline Payne Whitney, an American heiress. Lady Baillie bought the castle in 1926 for £180,000...
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