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Between 1222 and 1235, Henry III, who was born at Winchester Castle, added the Great Hall, built to a "double cube" design, measuring 110 ft (33.53 m) by 55 ft (16.76 m) by 55 ft (16.76 m). The Great Hall was built of flint with stone dressings; originally it had lower walls and a roof with dormer windows .
Winchester (/ ˈ w ɪ n tʃ ɪ s t ər /, /-tʃ ɛ s-/) [2] [3] [4] is a cathedral city in Hampshire, England.The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government district, at the western end of the South Downs National Park, on the River Itchen.
Castle Hill is a series of buildings used as council offices in Winchester, Hampshire, England. There are two main structures both of which are Grade II listed buildings : the Castle Hill Offices on the east of Castle Avenue [ 1 ] and the Castle Avenue Offices on the west of Castle Avenue. [ 2 ]
The Winchester. The Winchester is a public house in Highgate, London. It was built in 1881 as the Winchester Tavern, and later became the Winchester Hall Hotel. The name derives from Winchester Hall, a nearby late 17th-century mansion. [1] The pub has featured on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors. [1]
Hampshire County Council (HCC) is the upper-tier local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Hampshire in England. The council was created in 1889. The county council provides county-level services to eleven of the thirteen districts geographically located within the ceremonial county of Hampshire.
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On Sunday, 179 people were killed as a plane touched down in South Korea, making it the deadliest plane crash in South Korea's history.. Two of the six Jeju Air crew members are the only survivors ...
Castles have played an important military, economic and social role in Great Britain and Ireland since their introduction following the Norman invasion of England in 1066. . Although a small number of castles had been built in England in the 1050s, the Normans began to build motte and bailey and ringwork castles in large numbers to control their newly occupied territories in England and the ...