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outer bailey

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outer bailey
outer bailey
The courtyard outside the central defenses of a medieval castle; often contained housing and service facilities for the local population.


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Flanked by two windows and overlooking the outer bailey, the king - Henry I - would have stood at the door in the 12th century and gazed out at his subjects and the Purbeck Hills beyond.
Among them were many families visiting the Outer Bailey, featured as the quidditch practice ground in the first Potter film, and the Inner Bailey where the Weasleys' flying Ford Anglia car crash-landed in the Chamber of Secrets.
 
 
 
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