Cymbeline’s Castle
Cymbeline's Castle, also known as Cymbeline's Mound and Belinus's Castle, is the remains of a motte-and-bailey castle in woods north-east of Great Kimble in Buckinghamshire, England.Photo: Rob Farrow, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Castle
- Description: motte-and-bailey castle in Ellesborough, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Belinus’s Castle”, “Bellinus‘ Castle”, “Cymbeline’s Castle: a motte and bailey castle 550m south west of Ellesborough church”, “Cymbeline’s Mound”, and “Cymbelines Mount”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Chequers and Beacon Hill.
Chequers
Manor estate
Photo: StephenSimpson, Public domain.
Chequers or Chequers Court is the country house of the prime minister of the United Kingdom. A 16th-century manor house, it lies near the village of Ellesborough, halfway between the towns of Princes Risborough and Wendover in Buckinghamshire, at the foot… Chequers is situated 3,800 feet southeast of Cymbeline’s Castle.
Church of All Saints
Church
Photo: Waysider83, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Church of All Saints is situated 1,800 feet west of Cymbeline’s Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Great Kimble and Little Kimble.
Great Kimble
Village
Photo: Stephen Daglish, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Great and Little Kimble cum Marsh is a civil parish in central Buckinghamshire, England. It is located 5 miles to the south of Aylesbury. The civil parish altogether holds the ancient ecclesiastical villages of Great Kimble, Little Kimble, Kimblewick and Marsh, and an area within Great Kimble called Smokey Row.
Butlers Cross
Hamlet
Photo: Rpriv2000, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Butlers Cross is a hamlet within the parish of Ellesborough, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the south of the parish, at the crossroads between the road from Ellesborough to Little Kimble, and the road from Terrick to the Chequers country house.
Cymbeline’s Castle
- Categories: motte-and-bailey castle, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Ellesborough, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Cymbeline’s Castle” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Cymbelines Mount”
- Dutch: “Cymbeline’s Castle”
- German: “Cymbeline’s Castle”
- Swedish: “Cymbelines Mount”
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