Great Ashfield Castle
Great Ashfield Castle, also known locally as Castle Hill, is a medieval motte and bailey castle near the village of Great Ashfield, Suffolk, England.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Castle
- Description: motte-and-bailey castle in Suffolk, England, UK
- Also known as: “Castle Hill Motte” and “Great Ashfield Castle Hill”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church of All Saints and Church of St Mary.
Church of All Saints
Church
Photo: Keith Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of All Saints is situated 1,700 feet northeast of Great Ashfield Castle.
RAF Great Ashfield
Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Royal Air Force Great Ashfield or more simply RAF Great Ashfield is a former Royal Air Force station in Suffolk, England. It is located 10 miles east of Bury St Edmunds and 2 miles south of Great Ashfield.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Great Ashfield and Badwell Ash.
Great Ashfield
Village
Great Ashfield is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England, about 9 miles east of Bury St Edmunds. The Domesday Book of 1086 records the village's toponym as Eascefelda.
Badwell Ash
Village
Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Badwell Ash is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England, near Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket. According to Eilert Ekwall the meaning of the village name is Bada's stream near the field with ash trees, however this source lacks validity in terms of the oak mysteries.
Hunston
Hamlet
Hunston is a small Suffolk village and civil parish set in a conservation area of Mid-Suffolk and lies between Stowlangtoft and Badwell Ash off the A1088, nearly eight miles east of the centre of Bury St Edmunds. It is set in flattish farmland, mostly arable.
Great Ashfield Castle
- Categories: motte-and-bailey castle, motte, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Great Ashfield, Mid Suffolk District, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Great Ashfield Castle” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Great Ashfield Castle Hill”
- German: “Great Ashfield Castle”
- Swedish: “Great Ashfield Castle Hill”
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