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Many castles were built close to inland river ports and those built on the coast were usually located at the mouths of rivers or in ports, Pevensey and Portchester being rare exceptions.
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Many castles, especially royal castles were left to decay in the 15th century ; Kenilworth, however, continued to be used as a centre of choice, forming a late medieval " palace fortress ".
Many medieval churches and castles in Europe are made of limestone.
* Many historic castles are located along the Rhine.
Many castles and hill-top towns and forts were virtually invulnerable to siege tower attack simply due to topography.
Many of these castles were termed " adulterine ", unauthorised, because, in the chaos of the war, no royal permission had given to the lord for their construction.
Many of the most powerful nobles began to make their own truces and disarmament agreements, signing treaties between one another that typically promised an end to bilateral hostilities, limited the building of new castles, or agreed limits to the size of armies sent against one another.
Many of Wales's great castles and other monuments, such as bishop's palaces, historic houses, and ruined abbeys, are now in Cadw's care.
Many royal and baronial castles were left to decline, so that by the 15th century only a few were maintained for defensive purposes.
Many castles, both royal and baronial, had deer parks or chases attached to them for the purposes of hunting.
Many of these castles were termed " adulterine " ( unauthorised ), because no formal permission was given for their construction.
Many royal castles were receiving insufficient investment to allow them to be maintained – roofs leaked, stone work crumbled, lead or wood was stolen.
Many royal castles continued to have a role as the county gaol, with the gatehouse frequently being used as the principal facility.
Many castles, particularly in prominent royalist regions, were slighted, or damaged so as to prevent them from having any further military utility.
Many castles still retained a defensive role.
Many castles remained in use as county gaols, run by gaolers as effectively private businesses ; frequently this involved the gatehouse being maintained as the main prison building, as at Cambridge, Bridgnorth, Lancaster, Newcastle and St Briavels.
Many castles saw increased visitors by tourists, helped by better transport links and the growth of the railways.
Many mansions and castles are quite eccentric, but being purpose-built to be used as residences, they are not properly follies.
Many castles remain from the medieval period such as ; Windsor Castle ( longest-occupied castle in Europe ), Stirling Castle ( one of the largest and most important in Scotland ), Bodiam Castle ( moated castle ), and Warwick Castle.
Many of Wales ' great castles, such as the Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd and other monuments, are under the care of Cadw, part of the Welsh Government.
Many of the streets in the town are named after famous castles, such as Balmoral Drive, Caernavon Close, Windsor Drive, Warwick Close, and many others.
Many of these earliest castles would have appeared quite crude and rustic by later standards, belying the power and prestige of their builders.
Many motte-and-bailey castles were occupied relatively briefly and in England many were being abandoned by the 12th century, and others neglected and allowed to lapse into disrepair.
Many castles were also forced to be destroyed as a result of compliance with this law.
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Many of its sojourners were devoted to seclusion and quiet, and lived there to the end of their days.
Many of the myocardial fibers were hypertrophied and had large, irregular, basophilic nuclei.
Many aspects of civilization were not yet sufficiently crystallized to find expression, nor could the simple economic and social foundations of this world support a lofty structure.
Many potters clung to the past the more determinedly as they were confronted with radically new ideas ; ;
Many patent contests were waged over automobile components and accessories, among them tires, detachable rims, ball bearings, license brackets, and electric horns.
Many of the roads also were hit by an unusually severe winter.
Many of the latter were destroyed in their turn, during the burning of the vast Ch'in palace some ten years later ; ;
Many anthropologists ( students and teachers ) were active in the antiwar movement.
Many of the non-alphanumeric characters were positioned to correspond to their shifted position on typewriters.
Many of the settings for Agatha Christie ’ s books were directly inspired by the many archaeological field seasons spent in the Middle East on the sites managed by her second husband Max Mallowan.
Many batting records were set in this period.
Many lesser beings were said to be children of Aphrodite.
Many peasant parties were also nationalist parties, because peasants often worked their land for the benefit of landlords of different ethnicity.
Many remarkable insects and spiders were recently discovered in the amber of Jordan including the oldest zorapterans, clerid beetles, umenocoleid roaches, and achiliid planthoppers.
Many students left and were enrolled in the local common school or a recently re-opened private school for boys.
Many of the Ainu dialects, even from one end of Hokkaido to the other, were not mutually intelligible ; however, the classic Ainu language of the Yukar, or Ainu epic stories, was understood by all.
Many fragments were supplied in quotes by Athenaeus, principally on the subject of wine-drinking, but fr. 333, " wine, window into a man ", was quoted much later by the Byzantine grammarian, John Tzetzes.
Many officials, including those from Maryland, Virginia and Louisiana, as well as Chief Justice Chase personally, underscored for the President that the Southern states were economically in a state of chaos and governmental disorganization, and most anxious to reach agreements that would restore them to the Union.
Many of the men involved with Johnson's acquittal committee were friends of Secretary William Seward, Johnson's strongest ally on his Presidential Cabinet.
Many critics considered Johnson's actions were passive and delayed, and thought his defense of the Monroe Doctrine in this instance was weak.
Many of the burhs were twin towns that straddled a river and connected by a fortified bridge, like those built by Charles the Bald a generation before.
Many Athenians prominent earlier in the century would have lost citizenship, had this law applied to them: Cleisthenes, the founder of democracy, had a non-Athenian mother, and the mothers of Cimon and Themistocles were not Greek at all, but Thracian.
Many of these were arrested in Ireland, and some in Great Britain.
Many clinical tests were inconclusive, probably because it had been used as a surface antiseptic.
Many of these were part of the corruption indulged in by Scott and the Pennsylvania's president, J. Edgar Thomson, which consisted of inside trading in companies that the railroad did business with, or payoffs made by contracting parties " as part of a quid pro quo ", as biographer David Nasaw writes.
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