Kenilworth Castle — scene of the longest medieval siege in English history in 1266 — was held as a Royalist garrison during the Civil War. Parliament captured it in 1644 and subsequently slighted it, demolishing sections of wall and draining the great lake that had made it so formidable in medieval times. The ruins were later romanticised by Sir Walter Scott in his novel "Kenilworth."
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