Abinger Castle
Abinger Castle is an earthwork motte and bailey that was topped with a small wooden fortress. It is located in Abinger Common, between Guildford and Dorking in Surrey, England.- Access is restricted and requires permission.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: castle in Surrey, England, UK
- Also known as: “Abinger Motte”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St James’s Church, Abinger Common and The Abinger Hatch Public House.
St James’s Church, Abinger Common
Church
St James's Church stands on Abinger Lane in Abinger Common, a small village within the civil parish of Abinger in Surrey, south-eastern England. The church was built in the early 12th century and then rebuilt around 1220, and is today a grade II* listed building. St James’s Church, Abinger Common is situated 330 feet east of Abinger Castle.
The Abinger Hatch Public House
Pub
The Abinger Hatch Public House is situated 580 feet east of Abinger Castle.
Goddards
Manor estate
Goddards is a Grade II*-listed house in Abinger Common, Surrey, England, completed in 1900. It was designed by Edwin Lutyens in the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement and the west-facing courtyard garden was designed by Gertrude Jekyll. Goddards is situated 2,800 feet southeast of Abinger Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sutton Abinger and Friday Street.
Sutton Abinger
Hamlet
Abinger is a large, well-wooded and mostly rural civil parish that lies between the settlements of Dorking, Shere and Ewhurst in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England.
Friday Street
Hamlet
Friday Street is a hamlet on the gentle lower north slope of Leith Hill in Surrey, England. It is in a wooded headwater ravine, just to the south of Wotton and the A25, a single rather than dual carriageway road, running between Guildford to the west and Dorking to the east.
Holmbury St Mary
Village
Holmbury St Mary is a village in Surrey, England centered on shallow upper slopes of the Greensand Ridge. Its developed area is a nucleated village, 4.5 miles southwest of Dorking and 8 miles southeast of Guildford.
Abinger Castle
- Categories: castle and historic site
- Location: Abinger, Mole Valley, Surrey, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.20216° or 51° 12′ 8″ north
Longitude
-0.40689° or 0° 24′ 25″ west
Elevation
545 feet (166 metres)
Open location code
9C3X6H2V+V6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Abinger Castle” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Abinger Motte”
- German: “Abinger Castle”
- Swedish: “Abinger Motte”
- Turkish: “Abinger Kalesi”
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