81 Great British Seaside, Scarborough
Neil Oliver Podcast
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The Ironage Fort U, a Castle in the Cliffs of the East Coast of the Uk
The castle that's there actually sits upon or in the vicinity of the location of an ironage fort u. See, you've got a fortification going back to a time before the romans vikings came to scarborough. It comes into what you might describe as its first hade in the thirteenth century - when king henry the third of england spent considerable sums of money both ing the defences and making it a thriving port. King's lynn grew rich as part of the hansiatic league, which was a fellowship, or a confederation of towns along the baltic coast that saw the advantage of clubbing together,. They duly did, to form
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