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Encyclopedia > Chester Castle

Chester Castle was built in 1069 by William the Conqueror in Chester, Cheshire. It was besieged during the English Civil War.


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Henry the Third instigated a huge programme of castle building during his troubled reign and he was responsible for the addition of stone flanking towers at Chester, having taken the Earldom of Chester for himself in 1237 when the Earl of Chester died without a successor.
Chester was then used as a staging post in the supply of men and materials for the construction of new castles at Flint, Rhuddlan, Ruthin and Denbigh.
Castles that were supplied by sea from Chester.
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