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Marlborough Castle, locally known and recorded in historical documents as The Mound, was an 11th-century royal castle located in the civil parish of Marlborough, a market town in the English county of Wiltshire, on the Old Bath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 main road from London to Bath (grid reference).
Castello di Marlborough. Il Marlborough Castle, chiamato e talvolta registrato presso le cronache come The Mount [1] era un castello appartenente alla corona dell'XI secolo che sorgeva presso l' omonima cittadina nel Wiltshire lungo la strada che collegava Londra con Bath.
Blenheim Palace. Blenheim Palace ( / ˈblɛnɪm / BLEN-im [1]) is a country house in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. It is the seat of the Dukes of Marlborough. Originally called Blenheim Castle, it has been known as Blenheim Palace since the 19th century. [2]
31 dic 2022 · Marlborough Castle: twenty years of restoration and exploration. After two decades of research into Marlborough Castle, the Marlborough Mound Trust has collated all the results of their work in to a new publication. Here, Richard Barber of the Trust looks at what they have found.
In 1067 William the Conqueror assumed control of the Marlborough area and set about building a wooden motte-and-bailey castle, sited on the prehistoric mound. This was completed in around 1100. Stone was used to strengthen the castle in around 1175.
23 gen 2014 · Learn about the origins, development and significance of Marlborough Castle, a royal residence and political venue in the thirteenth century. See an artist's impression and a computer generated reconstruction of the castle based on historical evidence.
Marlborough Mound and Castle – Marlborough History Society. David Du Croz. Nothing remains today to suggest that Marlborough once boasted a great castle – even the Mound that was the motte to its bailey has now been proven in fact to have been a late Neolithic monument, so was not constructed originally for that purpose.
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