50°22′08″N 4°43′50″W / 50.3689°N 4.7305°W / 50.3689; -4.7305 Prideaux Castle /ˈprɪdɪks/ is a multivallate Iron Age hillfort situated atop a 133 m (435 ft)...
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Prideaux Place is a grade I listed Elizabethan country house in the parish of Padstow, Cornwall, England. It has been the home of the Prideaux family for...
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Prideaux may refer to: One of several persons with the surname Prideaux; see Prideaux (surname) Prideaux Castle, an Iron Age hillfort near St Blazey,...
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Maiden Castle is an Iron Age hillfort 1.6 mi (2.6 km) southwest of Dorchester, in the English county of Dorset. Hill forts were fortified hill-top settlements...
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Barbury Castle is a scheduled hillfort in Wiltshire, England. It is one of several such forts found along the ancient Ridgeway route. The site, which lies...
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Cornwall portal Castle Dor, a 1942 historical novel by Daphne du Maurier (1961) Castle an Dinas, St. Columb Major Prideaux Castle Notes Quinnell & Harris...
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the Inner Temple and member of an ancient family which originated at Prideaux Castle in Cornwall, by his second wife, Catherine Edgcumbe, daughter of Piers...
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Uffington Castle is an early Iron Age (with underlying Bronze Age) univallate hillfort in Oxfordshire, England. It covers about 32,000 square metres and...
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Castle Hill is a scheduled ancient monument in Almondbury overlooking Huddersfield in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. The...
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sandstones, a common phenomenon all around the Dark Peak, notably at Alport Castles, Longdendale, Glossop and Canyards Hills, Sheffield. Indeed, three larger...
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between 1622 and 1649). The remains of an Iron-Age hillfort known as Prideaux Castle are located in the southern portion of the parish near the border with...
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Old Sarum (category Castles in Wiltshire)
constructed a motte and bailey castle, a stone curtain wall, and a great cathedral. A royal palace was built within Old Sarum Castle for King Henry I and was...
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Abbotsbury Castle is an Iron Age hillfort in south west Dorset, England, situated on Wears Hill above the village of Abbotsbury, seven miles west of Dorchester...
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defence of Ely has led some to suggest that the ringfort may have been the Castle of Aldreth. According to the recorded history of the revolt led by Hereward...
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Castle Crag is a hill in the North Western Fells of the English Lake District. It is the smallest hill included in Alfred Wainwright's influential Pictorial...
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Devon and Cornwall Bank (redirect from Hingston & Prideaux)
and at Prideaux Place, Padstow and Prideaux Castle, Luxulyan, in Cornwall. Fox (1874) stated in regard of the Kingsbridge branch of Prideaux: "We have...
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Castle Ring is an Iron Age hill fort, situated high up on the southern edge of Cannock Chase (The Chase), Staffordshire, England. It is the highest point...
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Soldon, Holsworthy (section Prideaux)
settled in England at some time after the Norman Conquest of 1066 at Prideaux Castle, near Fowey, in Cornwall.[citation needed] It abandoned that seat and...
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middleweight and ladies championships were decided. Cornwall portal Castle Dore Prideaux Castle Anthony D. Hippisley Coxe, Haunted Britain, pg. 21, McGraw-Hill...
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British Camp (section The Castle)
thought to have been first constructed in the 2nd century BC. A Norman castle was built on the site. The extensive earthworks remain clearly visible today...
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Prideaux is a surname of Cornish origin derived from the place called Prideaux in the parish of Luxulyan. The place-name had the form Pridias in the 12th...
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Berkshire". PastScape. Retrieved 13 February 2011.[dead link] "Perborough Castle Hillfort". The Modern Antiquarian. Retrieved 15 July 2017. "English Heritage...
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Liddington Castle, locally called Liddington Camp, is a late Bronze Age and early Iron Age univallate hillfort in Liddington parish in the English county...
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Orcheton, Modbury (section Prideaux)
Geoffry Pridyas, as younger son of Richard Predieux (died 1250) of Prideaux Castle, near Fowey, in Cornwall. The Book of Fees (c.1302, contents earlier)...
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Hollingbury Castle, also known as Hollingbury Camp and Hollingbury Hillfort, is an Iron Age hillfort on the northern edge of Brighton, in East Sussex,...
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cured of illness. At Elmley Castle, on the north side of the hill, there are the remains of a considerable medieval castle, once the chief stronghold of...
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Padderbury Top Prideaux Castle Rame Head The Rumps Trencrom Hill Trereen Dinas Treryn Dinas Trevelgue Head Warbstow Bury Cumbria Carrock Fell Castle Crag Derbyshire...
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Bratton Castle (also known as Bratton Camp) is a bivallate (two ramparts) Iron Age built hill fort on Bratton Down, at the western edge of the Salisbury...
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