North Yorkshire
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Cawood

Cawood

Cawood is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England that is notable as the location of the Cawood sword. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Cawood belonged to the Liberty of Cawood, Wistow and Otley.
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  • Type: Village with 1,410 residents
  • Description: village in North Yorkshire, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Carwood” and “Cawood, North Yorkshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cawood Castle and Cawood Bridge.

Castle
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is a grade I listed building in Cawood, a village in , . The surviving fifteenth-century structures formed part of a fortified medieval palace belonging to the Archbishops of York, which was dismantled in the aftermath of the English Civil War.

Bridge
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is a swing bridge which spans the Yorkshire River Ouse in , . Construction was authorised in 1870, with the formation of the Company.

Church
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All Saints' Church is the of Cawood, in , England.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bolton Percy and Ulleskelf.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the county of , England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 305 in 115 households, reducing marginally to 304 at the 2011 census. is situated 3½ miles northwest of Cawood.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the county of , England, four miles from on the . Its name comes from the Scandinavian personal name Úlfr, while skelf may be an Old English word meaning "a flat area", although it could be from the Old Scandinavian equivalent, 'skialf' as in several other English place names, e.g. , . is situated 3½ miles northwest of Cawood.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the North Yorkshire district of , England. It is about 16 miles east of Leeds, about 6 miles south-east from and 3 miles north from . is situated 3½ miles west of Cawood.

Cawood

Latitude
53.83142° or 53° 49′ 53″ north
Longitude
-1.13038° or 1° 7′ 49″ west
Population
1,410
Elevation
33 feet (10 metres)
Open location code
9C5WRVJ9+HR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21479474
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2653468
Wiki­data ID
Q1815597
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Turkish—“Cawood” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Cawood”
  • Dutch: “Cawood”
  • French: “Cawood”
  • Irish: “Cawood”
  • Italian: “Cawood”
  • Ladin: “Cawood”
  • Polish: “Cawood”
  • Portuguese: “Cawood”
  • Spanish: “Cawood”
  • Swedish: “Cawood”
  • Turkish: “Cawood”
  • “Cawood”

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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 “Cawood”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.