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    Anglo-Saxon settlements around Southampton had been fortified with walls or ditches, the later walls originate with the move of the town to the current site in...
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    fortified town walls, many of which still stand today. Jane Austen also lived in Southampton for a number of years. In 1964, the town of Southampton acquired...
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  • Wikimedia Commons has media related to City walls in Mexico. Campeche - majority of the walls around the old town survive Mayapan (Maya ruins) Mérida, Yucatán...
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    Bargate (category Buildings and structures in Southampton)
    gatehouse in the city centre of Southampton, England. Constructed in Norman times as part of the Southampton town walls, it was the main gateway to the...
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    the 14th century, Southampton Castle sat alongside one and a quarter miles (2.0 km) of town walls, although the castle and the walls were kept administratively...
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    merchant and mayor of Southampton, John Whytegod, lived in the property. After the French raid of Southampton in 1338 the walls were turned into what...
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    medieval gatehouse in the city centre of Southampton, England. Constructed in 1180 as part of the Southampton town walls Ightham Mote, in Kent has an imposing...
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    Carlisle city walls were a defensive structure surrounding the centre of Carlisle, Cumbria. The city walls ran from Carlisle Castle in the north-west of...
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  • Victorians. As a centre of commerce, an industrial town and an important military embarkation point, Southampton was a strategic target for the Luftwaffe and...
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  • 40415°W / 50.9027; -1.40415 c 1180 AD Norman gatehouse, part of the Southampton town walls. Bishop's Waltham Palace 50°57′12″N 1°12′51″W / 50.95343°N 1.21409°W...
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