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English: The Phoenix Tower on the city walls. The Phoenix Tower, at the north east corner of the city walls, is no longer open to visitors due to structural problems. More commonly known as the King Charles Tower it is stated that the king watched from here in 1645 as his army was defeated at Rowton Moor. For the carvings at the top of the tower, above the steps, see 631562. |
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| Source | From geograph.org.uk |
| Author | John S Turner |
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This image was taken from the Geograph project collection. See this photograph's page on the Geograph website for the photographer's contact details. The copyright on this image is owned by John S Turner and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
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File usage
The following 11 pages use this file:
- Battle of Rowton Heath
- Francis Gamull
- Phoenix Tower, Chester
- Siege of Chester
- User:Moonraker/DYK
- Wikipedia:Did you know/Statistics/Monthly DYK pageview leaders/2011
- Wikipedia:Did you know archive/2011/September
- Wikipedia:Main Page history/2011 September 23
- Template:Did you know nominations/Siege of Chester
- Portal:Cheshire/Did you know/39
- Portal:Cheshire/Did you know/Archive
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