Yielden Castle
Yielden Castle was a twelfth-century castle located in the village of Yelden in the county of Bedfordshire, England.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Les Harvey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Castle
- Description: castle in Yielden, Bedfordshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Yielden Castle: a motte and bailey castle, fishponds and associated enclosures”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church of St Mary Magdalene, Melchbourne and Church of St Peter.
Church of St Mary Magdalene, Melchbourne
Church
Photo: Colin Mitchell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Mary Magdalene is a Grade I listed church in Melchbourne, Bedfordshire, England. It became a listed building on 13 July 1964. The church is one of the Stodden Group of churches, which is a group of six parish churches also including All Hallows’… Church of St Mary Magdalene, Melchbourne is situated 1¼ miles southeast of Yielden Castle.
Church of St Peter
Church
Photo: Shaun Ferguson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Peter is situated 1¼ miles southwest of Yielden Castle.
Church of St Margaret, Knotting, Bedfordshire
Church
Photo: Arcusiridis, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Church of St Margaret is a redundant Grade I listed church in Knotting, Bedfordshire, England. It became a listed building on 13 July 1964. The church was originally built in the 12th century. Church of St Margaret, Knotting, Bedfordshire is situated 2½ miles south of Yielden Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yelden and Newton Bromswold.
Yelden
Village
Photo: Colin Mitchell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Yelden or Yielden is a village in the civil parish of Melchbourne and Yielden, in the Bedford borough of Bedfordshire, England, near the borders with Northamptonshire and Cambridgeshire.
Newton Bromswold
Village
Photo: Bogbumper, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Newton Bromswold is a village and civil parish about 1.9 miles east of Rushden in North Northamptonshire, England, adjacent to the border with Bedfordshire.
Melchbourne
Village
Melchbourne is a village in the civil parish of Melchbourne and Yielden, in the Bedford borough of Bedfordshire, England. The village is located west of Swineshead and east of Yelden.
Yielden Castle
- Categories: motte-and-bailey castle, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Melchbourne and Yielden, Bedford, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Yielden Castle” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Yielden Castle”
- German: “Yielden Castle”
- Swedish: “Yielden Castle”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Yielden Castle”. Photo: Les Harvey, CC BY-SA 2.0.