- A
tiltyard (or
tilt yard or
tilt-
yard) was an
enclosed courtyard for jousting.
Tiltyards were a
common feature of
Tudor era
castles and palaces. The Horse...
-
Tilt-A-Whirl is a flat ride
similar to the
Waltzer in Europe,
designed for
commercial use at amu****t parks, fairs, and carnivals, in
which it is commonly...
-
grounds are
separately Grade I listed,
including the
early 16th-century
tilt yard tower (the only
surviving example of the five
original towers); Christopher...
- 1401, with a
joust being given in his honour.
There is
still a
jousting tilt yard. The 1401
Eltham tournament was
described or
commemorated in literary...
-
attracted the
attention of
James I in 1606 by
breaking his leg in the
tilt-
yard,
Overbury had for some time been servitor-in-ordinary to the king.[citation...
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Manufacture of
ammunition had
previously taken place within a
Great Barn on the
tilt-
yard at
Greenwich Palace (an
offshoot of the
royal armoury there); but in 1695...
- Listen,
Liberal (2016),
among others. From 2008 to 2010 he
wrote "The
Tilting Yard", a
column in The Wall
Street Journal. A
historian of
culture and ideas...
-
Tournament Bridge. An 1837 map of
Eglinton Castle,
Grounds and
Tilt yard shows that the
tilt yard was
already in
existence at this
early date, but it is not...
- century, and was
there called the
Italian or "welsch" mode.
Dedicated tilt-
yards with such
barriers were
built in
England from the time of
Henry VIII....
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swimming pool on the
lowest terrace, on the site of the castle's
medieval tilt-
yard. The pool was
designed by Allom, ****isted by
Julia Morgan, Hearst's main...
