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Berkeley Castle - Berkeley Springs - Reviews of Berkeley Castle - TripAdvisor
I have been twice. A very interesting story and thorough tour. The second time there was a bird in one of the closed off rooms and my friend and I were permitted to go in after it. Some sup...
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Berkeley Castle | History
It is also a fairytale Castle with its warm pink stone that glows in soft sunset light. Outside, the battlements drop some 60' to the Great Lawn below; but inside the Inner Courtyard, the building is on a human scale, with uneven battlements, small towers, doors and windows of every shape and size. ...
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Berkeley Castle
The Berkeley Castle contains over 20 rooms including a 45' X 26' stone great room with 2 fireplaces and 16' ceilings. The dining room and 2nd floor library are paneled in carved Georgian pine. There are 8 bedrooms, 6 full baths, 3 half baths, and a recently remodeled apartment with its own kitchen, ...
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Berkeley Castle, an Attraction in Berkeley, Gloucestershire. Search for Gloucestershire Attractions.
Scene of the brutal murder of Edward II in 1327 and besieged by Cromwell's troops in 1645, the castle is steeped in history. The state apartments contain magnificent collections of furniture, tapestries and rare paintings by primarily English and Dutch masters. Part of the famous Berkeley silver is ...
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Berkeley Castle - Things to Do - Visit Bristol
Berkeley Castle is England's oldest inhabited castle and most historic home. 24 generations of Berkeleys have transformed a savage Norman fortress into this stately home full of historic treasures like Queen Elizabeth I's bedspread and Sir Fr...
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TimeRef - History Timelines - Berkeley Castle
erkeley Castle, in Saxon times, was the site of a nunnery. Harold Godwine obtained the land by corrupting the nuns with a carefully laid plan involving a 'young man of great beauty' sent to the nunnery pretending to be ill. After Godwine the land was owned by William Fitz Osbern, a follower of Willa...
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Berkeley Castle | Bath & Cotswolds Sights
-ley), is perfectly preserved, down to its medieval turrets. It witnessed the gruesome murder of King Edward II in 1327 -- the cell in which it occurred can still be seen. Edward was deposed by his French consort, Queen Isabella, and her paramour, the earl of Mortimer. They then connived at his impr...
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