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    Corfe Castle is a fortification standing above the village of the same name on the Isle of Purbeck peninsula in the English county of Dorset. Built by...
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    Corfe Castle is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. It is the site of a ruined castle of the same name. The village and castle...
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    of Henry John Ralph Bankes, along with Corfe Castle. The house and gardens are open to the public. The Kingston Lacy estate originally formed part of a...
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    1877, Kingston had been a chapelry of Corfe Castle. A chapel stood on the east side of the village and it was served by the Rector of Corfe Castle or his...
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    Corfe Castle, and burnt down in 1680. The town hall was commissioned by the lord of the manor, Henry Bankes the Younger, whose seat was at Kingston Lacy...
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    General and Chief Justice to Charles I during the English Civil War. Corfe Castle, his family seat was destroyed during a long siege, in which his wife...
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    was a British Tory politician, who served as Member of Parliament for Corfe Castle. Bankes was the son of Sir Ralph Bankes MP (son of Sir John Bankes, Chief...
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    history and development of the country. The first family seat was in Corfe Castle which was destroyed during the civil war when the Bankeses, who were...
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    builder of Kingston Lacy, the restored seat of the Bankes family, designed by architect Sir Roger Pratt. Bankes was born at Corfe Castle, Dorset, the...
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    Encombe House (category Corfe Castle)
    National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 11 February 2016. Kingston (near Corfe Castle) Archived 2014-07-15 at the Wayback Machine at www.kingstonopc...
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