enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. King John's Palace - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_John's_Palace

    View of King John's Palace, Nottinghamshire facing south-west during conservation work in 2009. The site continued in use as an arable field, with a preserved ruin and was known as Castle Field during the 20th century. It remained in the ownership of the Welbeck Estate until November 1945 when it was purchased by local farmers Fred and Molly ...

  3. File:King John's Palace, Clipstone, Nottinghamshire.jpg

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:King_John's_Palace...

    English: King John's Palace features the remains of a hunting palace that was used and visited by six successive Plantagenet kings. Ongoing archaeology excavations are attempting to map out the boundaries of the original palace and successive additions.

  4. Scheduled monuments in Nottinghamshire - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheduled_monuments_in...

    King John's Palace at Clipstone: King John's Palace: Building King's Clipstone, Mansfield Remains of a former medieval royal residence in Clipstone. It has been known as "King John's Palace" (although King John only spent a few days here) since the 18th century. It was previously known as the "King's Houses", built for Henry II from 1176 within ...

  5. Clipstone - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipstone

    King John's Palace is the ruined walls of a former medieval royal residence previously used for hunting trips into Sherwood Forest near to Kings Clipstone. While there is no conclusive proof of the medieval royal residence being built by King John , there were known to be 1400 acres of forested deer park (and 70 acres of rabbit warrens) next to ...

  6. Sherwood Forest - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherwood_Forest

    In 1066, in the invasion of England, King William the Conqueror made Sherwood Forest a Royal Hunting Forest. [4] [5] Sherwood Forest was frequently visited by the Mercian Kings. [3] The forest became popular with John, King of England and King Edward I of England. The remains of a hunting lodge can be found at Kings Clipstone named King John's ...

  7. Kings Clipstone - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_Clipstone

    Edward I bestowed the King part of its name after Parliament was held at King John's Palace in 1290 "Clipiston Regis", [11] and appeared on later maps as Kings Clipstone. [ 12 ] After its importance lessened it was known simply as Clipstone, and later Old Clipstone particularly after the nearby (New) Clipstone village was built for miners at ...

  8. List of English Heritage properties - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_Heritage...

    It was enlarged by King John at the beginning of the 13th century. It was the subject of the six-month-long siege in 1266, and formed a base for Lancastrian operations in the Wars of the Roses. Then John of Gaunt in the late 14th century, turned the medieval castle into an expensive palace fortress.

  9. List of National Trust properties in England - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_National_Trust...

    King Alfred's Tower; King John's Hunting Lodge; Leigh Woods; Lytes Cary Manor; Montacute House; The Priest's House, Muchelney; Prior Park Landscape Garden; Sand Point; Solsbury Hill; Stembridge Tower Mill; Stoke sub Hamdon Priory; Tintinhull Garden; Treasurer's House; Tyntesfield; Walton and Ivythorn Hills; Wellington Monument, Somerset; West ...