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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: Historic house museums in Warwickshire, Kenilworth Castle, Anne Hathaway's Cottage, Warwick Castle, Compton Wynyates, Shakespeare's Birthplace, Upton House, Warwickshire, Packwood House, Baddesley Clinton, Ragley Hall, Charlecote Park, Barrells Hall, Maxstoke Castle, Pooley Hall, Langley Hall, West Midlands, Moreton Hall, Hermitage Manor, New Place, Coughton Court, Stoneleigh Abbey, Guy's Cliffe, Arbury Hall, Farnborough Hall, Compton Verney House, St John's House Museum, Warwick, Wroxall Abbey, Coombe Abbey, Moat House, Sutton Coldfield, Middleton Hall, Clopton House, Hall's Croft, The Water Tower, Kenilworth, Coton House, Nash's House, Mary Arden's Farm, Umberslade Hall, Honington Hall, Moxhull Hall, Bilton Hall, Merevale Hall, Packington Hall, Ladbroke Hall, Polesworth Vicarage, Birdingbury Hall, Harvard House, Shuckburgh Hall, Blyth Hall, Offchurch Bury, Packington Old Hall. Excerpt: Kenilworth Castle is located in the town of the same name in Warwickshire, England. Constructed from Norman through to Tudor times, the castle has been described by 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 has also played an important historical role. The castle was the subject of the six-month long Siege of Kenilworth in 1266, believed to be the longest siege in English history, and formed a base for Lancastrian operations in the War of the Roses. Kenilworth was also the scene of the removal of Edward II from the English throne, the French insult to Henry V in 1414 (said by John Strecche to have encouraged the Agincourt campaign), and the Earl of Leicester's lavish reception of Elizabeth I in 1575. The castle was built over several centuries. Founded in the 1120s around a powerful No...
