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Kenilworth Castle
For 500 years kings regularly slept at Kenilworth Castle but in 1649 the ruinous Parliamentary forces laid it to waste.
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Lionel Hampden, with tongue firmly planted in his cheek, takes up the role of estate agent trying to sell the ruin of Kenilworth Castle. From most angles it doesn't look much these days, Oliver Cromwell turned it from castle to rubble in 1649, but it's more than just a pile of local sandstone; even in its ruined state it inspired Sir Walter Scott and it has been a regular stopping off point on the Midlands' tourist trail for hundred of years.
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