North East England
Northumberland
Corbridge

Aydon Castle

Aydon Castle, previously sometimes called Aydon Hall, is a fortified manor house at near to the town of , , . It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, and is designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: fortified manor house near Corbridge, Northumberland, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Aydon Castle Main Buildings And Courtyard Walls” and “Aydon Castle medieval hall, fortified manor and eighteenth century farm buildings”
  • Postal code: NE45 5PJ

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Coria and Corbridge Vicar’s Pele.

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was a fort and town 2.5 miles south of , in the Roman province of Britannia. It was strategically located on the junction of a major Roman north–south road with the and the Roman Stanegate road, which was also the first frontier line which ran east–west between and Luguvalium. is situated 1½ miles southwest of Aydon Castle.

Historic building
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Corbridge Vicar's Pele is a pele tower in the village of , , England. It was a three-storey defensive pele tower, with one room to each storey, built in the churchyard in 1318, and used as the vicarage for the adjacent church. is situated 1½ miles southwest of Aydon Castle.

Railway station
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Corbridge is a railway station on the Tyne Valley Line, which runs between and via . The station, situated 19 miles 15 chains west of Newcastle, serves the village of in , England. is situated 2 miles southwest of Aydon Castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Aydon and Halton.

Hamlet
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is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of , in , England. It is about 2 miles northeast of Corbridge on the B6321 road.

Hamlet
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is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Whittington, in the southern part of , England. It is situated 3 miles north of just south of .

Village
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is a village and former civil parish, now the parish of , in , England. It is situated close to the A69 road, 3 miles north of and 13 miles west of . is situated 2½ miles southeast of Aydon Castle.

Aydon Castle

Latitude
54.99141° or 54° 59′ 29″ north
Longitude
-1.9994° or 1° 59′ 58″ west
Elevation
381 feet (116 metres)
Operator
English Heritage
Open location code
9C6WX2R2+H6
Open­Street­Map ID
way 994977752
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
6286559
Wiki­data ID
Q1965841
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Western Panjabi—“Aydon Castle” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Aydon Castle”
  • Chinese: “艾當城堡”
  • Danish: “Aydon Castle”
  • French: “château d’Aydon”
  • French: “Château d’Aydon”
  • German: “Aydon Castle”
  • Italian: “Aydon Castle”
  • Italian: “Aydon Hall”
  • Italian: “castello di Aydon”
  • Italian: “Castello di Aydon”
  • Polish: “Zamek Aydon”
  • Russian: “Замок Эйдон”
  • Swedish: “Aydon Castle”
  • Ukrainian: “Замок Ейдон”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایوڈن قلعہ”

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