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Kenilworth

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Ken·il·worth  (knl-wûrth)
An urban district of central England southeast of Birmingham. It is famous for the ruins of Kenilworth Castle, founded c. 1120 and celebrated in Sir Walter Scott's novel Kenilworth (1821). Population: 22,200.
Kenilworth [ˈkɛnɪlˌwɜːθ]
n
(Placename) a town in central England, in Warwickshire: ruined 12th-century castle, subject of Sir Walter Scott's novel Kenilworth. Pop.: 21 623 (1991)


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It is not the object of this work to give a description of Derbyshire, nor of any of the remarkable places through which their route thither lay; Oxford, Blenheim, Warwick, Kenilworth, Birmingham, &c.
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Then when he was eleven years old there was great excitement in the country town, for Queen Elizabeth came to visit the great Earl of Leicester at his castle of Kenilworth, not sixteen miles away.
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Amy, flying up--"Oh, that must be Kenilworth, that gray place among the trees
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