Beeston
Beeston is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester, which itself is in the ceremonial county of Cheshire in the north of England.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 238 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Cheshire West, Cheshire, UK
- Also known as: “Beeston, Cheshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Beeston Castle and Smithy Cottage.
Beeston Castle
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Beeston Castle is a former Royal castle in Beeston, Cheshire, England, perched on a rocky sandstone crag 350 feet above the Cheshire Plain. It was built in the 1220s by Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester, on his return from the Crusades.
Smithy Cottage
Residential building
Photo: Dave.Dunford, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Smithy Cottage is a residential building.
Peckforton Castle
Castle
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Peckforton Castle is a Victorian country house built in the style of a medieval castle. It stands in woodland at the north end of Peckforton Hills one mile northwest of the village of Peckforton, Cheshire, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tiverton and Tattenhall.
Tiverton
Hamlet
Photo: Mike Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tiverton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Tiverton and Tilstone Fearnall, in the Cheshire West and Chester district and ceremonial county of Cheshire in England.
Tattenhall
Tattenhall is a village in Cheshire. It is near to Beeston Castle, a ruined 13th-century castle, and sits along the Sandstone Trail, a long-distance walkers' path, between Frodsham to Whitchurch.
Wettenhall
Village
Photo: Peter Styles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wettenhall is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The village lies 3½ miles to the south west of Winsford and 6 miles to the north west of Crewe. Wettenhall is situated 5 miles east of Beeston.
Beeston
- Categories: village, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Beeston, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.12377° or 53° 7′ 26″ northLongitude
-2.68692° or 2° 41′ 13″ westPopulation
238Elevation
269 feet (82 metres)Open location code
9C5V48F7+G6OpenStreetMap ID
node 8914534485OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2656013Wikidata ID
Q1791022
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Beeston” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيستون”
- Cebuano: “Beeston (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Beeston”
- Chinese: “比斯頓”
- Dutch: “Beeston”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيستون”
- French: “Beeston”
- Hebrew: “ביסטון”
- Irish: “Beeston”
- Italian: “Beeston (Cheshire)”
- Italian: “Beeston”
- Ladin: “Beeston”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Beeston”
- Norwegian: “Beeston”
- Persian: “بیستون”
- Polish: “Beeston”
- Russian: “Бистон”
- Swedish: “Beeston, Cheshire”
- Swedish: “Beeston”
- Turkish: “Beeston, Cheshire”
- Welsh: “Beeston, Swydd Gaer”
- Welsh: “Beeston”
- “Beeston”
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