Danby Castle
Danby Castle is a historic building in Danby, North Yorkshire, a village in England. The castle was first recorded in 1242, but it was in ruins by 1336, according to local tradition due to a fire and the reuse of its stone in constructing St Hilda's Church, Danby.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Castle
- Description: Grade I listed quadrangular castle in North Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Danby Castle: a quadrangular castle”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Crow Wood and Danby railway station.
Danby railway station
Railway station
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Danby is a railway station on the Esk Valley Line, which runs between Middlesbrough and Whitby via Nunthorpe. The station, situated 15 miles 9 chains west of Whitby, serves the villages of Ainthorpe and Danby, North Yorkshire, England. Danby railway station is situated 1 mile northwest of Danby Castle.
Castleton Moor railway station
Railway station
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Castleton Moor is a railway station on the Esk Valley Line, which runs between Middlesbrough and Whitby via Nunthorpe. The station, situated 16 miles 45 chains west of Whitby, serves the village of Castleton in North Yorkshire, England. Castleton Moor railway station is situated 2 miles west of Danby Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ainthorpe and Houlsyke.
Ainthorpe
Village
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Ainthorpe is a village in the civil parish of Danby in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated within the North York Moors National Park in the Esk Valley, a quarter of a mile south of Danby and 12 miles west of Whitby.
Houlsyke
Hamlet
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Houlsyke is a hamlet in the Glaisdale civil parish, in North Yorkshire, England. It is situated between Danby and Lealholm.
Castleton
Village
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Castleton is a village on the River Esk, part of the civil parish of Danby in the county of North Yorkshire in England, 7.1 miles south-east of Guisborough, in the North York Moors. Castleton is situated 2 miles west of Danby Castle.
Danby Castle
- Categories: quadrangular castle, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Danby, Scarborough District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.45553° or 54° 27′ 20″ northLongitude
-0.89531° or 0° 53′ 43″ westElevation
482 feet (147 metres)Open location code
9C6XF443+6VOpenStreetMap ID
way 610614160OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleGeoNames ID
2651531Wikidata ID
Q17526147
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Danby Castle” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Danby Castle (arkiyolohiyang dapit)”
- Cebuano: “Danby Castle (kastilyo)”
- Cebuano: “Danby Castle”
- German: “Danby Castle”
- Italian: “Castello di Danby”
- Swedish: “Danby Castle (fornlämning)”
- Swedish: “Danby Castle”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Danby Castle”. Photo: Simon Armstrong, CC BY-SA 3.0.