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Warwickshire
Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It is bordered by Staffordshire and Leicestershire to the north, Northamptonshire to the east, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire to the south, and Worcestershire and the West Midlands (county), West Midlands county to the west. The largest settlement is Nuneaton, and the county town is Warwick. The county is largely rural, and has an area of and population of 571,010. After Nuneaton (94,364), the largest settlements are Rugby, Warwickshire, Rugby (78,125), Leamington Spa (57,512), and Warwick (37,267). Warwickshire is administered as a two-tier non-metropolitan county with five local government districts and Warwickshire County Council, a county council. It historically included the city of Coventry and the area to its west, including Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield, Sutton Coldfield, Solihull, and Birmingham city centre. Warwickshire ...
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Kenilworth Castle
Kenilworth Castle is a castle in the town of Kenilworth in Warwickshire, England managed by English Heritage; much of it is still in ruins. The castle was founded during the Norman conquest of England; with development through to the Tudor period. It has been described by the architectural historian Anthony Emery as "the finest surviving example of a semi-royal palace of the later middle ages, significant for its scale, form and quality of workmanship". Kenilworth played an important historical role: it was the subject of the six-month-long siege of Kenilworth in 1266, thought to be the longest siege in Medieval English history, and formed a base for Lancastrian operations in the Wars of the Roses. Kenilworth was the scene of the removal of Edward II from the English throne, the perceived French insult to Henry V in 1414 of a gift of tennis balls (said by John Strecche to have prompted the campaign that led to the Battle of Agincourt), and the Earl of Leicester's lavish re ...
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