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• Castle, Cambridge — Castle is a district and electoral ward of the city of Cambridge, England. It is named after the former Cambridge Castle which once stood on castle mound …   Wikipedia

• Castle Bloody — is a prehistoric feature on the island of Shapinsay, Orkney, Scotland. Hogan observes that while the feature is marked as a chambered mound [United Kingdom Ordnance Survey Map Landranger Map, Orkney Mainland, 1:50,000 scale, 2002] on the UK… …   Wikipedia

• Castle — This article is about medieval fortifications. For other uses, see Castle (disambiguation). For a list of all castles, see List of castles. For similar but unrelated structures in Japan, see Japanese castle …   Wikipedia

• castle — castlelike, adj. /kas euhl, kah seuhl/, n., v., castled, castling. n. 1. a fortified, usually walled residence, as of a prince or noble in feudal times. 2. the chief and strongest part of the fortifications of a medieval city. 3. a strongly… …   Universalium

• Castle — /kas euhl, kah seuhl/, n. Irene (Foote), 1893 1969, born in the U.S., and her husband and partner Vernon (Vernon Castle Blythe), 1887 1918, born in England, U.S. ballroom dancers. * * * I Medieval European stronghold, generally the fortified… …   Universalium

• Castle of Rattray — Infobox Military Structure name=Castle of Rattray (destroyed) location=Rattray, Aberdeenshire, Buchan, Scotland coordinates=gbmaprim|NK088578|NK088578 caption=Rattray Castle, one of The Nine Castles of Knuckle. type= code= built= 12th century… …   Wikipedia

• Castle — The question of how exactly to define the term castle is a vexed one, and only a brief sketch can be given here. The great stone structures familiar today are late developments of the ditch surrounding a mound of earth on the top of which was a… …   Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

• CASTLE —    Because of the increasingly complex political environment of Romanesque Europe in the 1000s and 1100s, fortified castles, which still dot the countryside across Europe, came to share political authority with the powerful monasteries of the… …   Historical Dictionary of Architecture

• Fukuoka Castle — (福岡城 jō) is a Japanese castle located in Chūō ku, Fukuoka, Japan. The castle is also known as Maizuru Castle (舞鶴城 jō) or Seki Castle (石城 jō). Completed in the early Edo period for tozama daimyo Kuroda Nagamasa, it has been decreed a historic site …   Wikipedia

• Marlborough Castle — Marlborough Castle, locally known and recorded in historical documents as The Mount,[1] was an 11th century royal castle located in the civil parish of Marlborough, a market town in the English county of Wiltshire, on the Old Bath Road, the old… …   Wikipedia

• Thetford Castle — Thetford Castle, also known as Castle Hill or Castle Mound , is an earthworks mound located in the market town of Thetford in the Breckland area of Norfolk, England (gbmapping|TL87468281).Thetford Castle Hill is an enormous mound, partly sunk… …   Wikipedia