Wardour Castle
Wardour Castle or Old Wardour Castle is a ruined 14th-century castle at Wardour, on the boundaries of the civil parishes of Tisbury and Donhead St Andrew in the English county of Wiltshire, about 15 miles west of Salisbury.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Castle
- Description: Grade I listed castle in Wardour, Wiltshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Old Wardour Castle” and “Old Wardour Castle: a tower keep castle, 17th century stables and later garden features”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include New Wardour Castle and Church of St James.
New Wardour Castle
Castle
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 3.0.
New Wardour Castle is a Grade I listed English country house at Wardour, near Tisbury in Wiltshire, built for the Arundell family. The house is of Palladian style, designed by the architect James Paine, with additions by Giacomo Quarenghi, who was a principal architect of the Imperial Russian capital city, Saint Petersburg. New Wardour Castle is situated 4,100 feet northwest of Wardour Castle.
Church of St James
Church
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St James is situated 1 mile east of Wardour Castle.
Tisbury railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tisbury railway station serves the village of Tisbury in Wiltshire, England. It is currently managed by South Western Railway and is on the West of England Main Line, 96 miles 14 chains down the line from London Waterloo. Tisbury railway station is situated 2 miles north of Wardour Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wardour and Ludwell.
Wardour
Hamlet
Photo: Toby, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wardour is a settlement in the civil parish of Tisbury, in Wiltshire, England, about 13 miles west of Salisbury and 4 miles south of Hindon.
Ludwell
Village
Ludwell is a small village in south Wiltshire, England, approximately 3 miles east of the Dorset town of Shaftesbury. It lies within the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, on the A30 Salisbury-Shaftesbury road. Ludwell is situated 3 miles southwest of Wardour Castle.
Semley
Village
Photo: Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Semley is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sedgehill and Semley, in Wiltshire, England, about 3 miles north-east of Shaftesbury in neighbouring Dorset. Semley is situated 3 miles west of Wardour Castle.
Wardour Castle
- Categories: archaeological site, local authority museum, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Donhead St. Andrew, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Wardour Castle” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Old Wardour Castle”
- Chinese: “沃多比斯特城堡”
- Chinese: “華都城堡”
- Danish: “Old Wardour Castle”
- French: “château de Wardour”
- French: “Château de Wardour”
- German: “Wardour Castle”
- Greek: “κάστρο του Γουάρντουρ”
- Japanese: “ウォーダー城”
- Japanese: “ウォードー城”
- Persian: “واردور (دژ)”
- Persian: “واردور”
- Portuguese: “Castelo Velho de Wardour”
- Swedish: “Old Wardour Castle”
- Turkish: “Wardour Kalesi”
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