Bolingbroke Castle
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Bolingbroke Castle | English Heritage
The remains of a 13th-century hexagonal castle, birthplace in 1367 of the future King Henry IV, with adjacent earthworks. Besieged and taken by Cromwell's Parliamentarians in 1643.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- archaeological site
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Bolingbroke
- Elevation
- 30
- Owned by
- John of Gaunt
- Operator
- English Heritage
- Material used
- limestone
- Official website
- www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/bolingbroke-castle
- Image
- Kitchen Tower - geograph.org.uk - 426284.jpg
- Significant event
- slighting
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- Commons category
- Bolingbroke Castle
- heritage designation
- scheduled monument
- commissioned by
- Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester
- inception
- 1220-00-00
- OS grid reference
- TF3491165039
- native label
- Bolingbroke Castle
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