Conisbrough
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Conisbrough is a town within the City of Doncaster, in South Yorkshire, England. It is roughly midway between Doncaster and Rotherham, and is built alongside the River Don at. It has a ward population
Conisbrough Castle
St Peter's Church, Conisbrough
Ivanhoe
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Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in December 1819, as one of the Waverley novels. The Waverley novels are considered seminal to the genre of histori
Conisbrough
…Anglo-Saxon leader Hengist was hacked to pieces by Eldol outside the town walls, and was buried at "Hengist's Mound" in the town. In Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe, 'Coningsburgh Castle' is based on Conisbrough. Scott's Coningsburgh is an Anglo-Saxon fortress, based (perhaps knowingly) on the mistaken conclusion…
Title page of 1st edition (1820, but released in December 1819)
Ivanhoe on the Scott Monument, Edinburgh (sculpted by John Rhind)
Le Noir Faineant in the Hermit's Cell by J. Cooper, Sr. From an 1886 edition of Walter Scott's works
Rebecca and Brian de Bois-Guilbert by Leon Cogniet, 1828