St Briavels Castle
St Briavels Castle is a moated Norman castle at St Briavels in the English county of Gloucestershire. The castle is noted for its huge Edwardian gatehouse that guards the entrance.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Castle
- Description: Grade I listed castle in Forest of Dean, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “St Briavel’s Castle”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church of St Mary and Clearwell Castle.
Clearwell Castle
Castle
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Clearwell Castle in Clearwell, the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, is a Gothic Revival house constructed from 1727. Built by Thomas Wyndham to the designs of Roger Morris, it is the earliest Georgian Gothic Revival castle in England predating better-known examples such as Strawberry Hill House by over twenty years. Clearwell Castle is situated 2 miles north of St Briavels Castle.
Church of St Mary Magdalen
Church
Photo: Stuart Wilding, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Mary Magdalen is situated 1½ miles south of St Briavels Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bigsweir and Hewelsfield.
Hewelsfield
Village
Photo: Stuart Wilding, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hewelsfield is a village in Hewelsfield and Brockweir civil parish, in the Forest of Dean district of Gloucestershire, England. The village is located 6 miles south of Coleford and 5 miles north-east of Chepstow, close to the Wye valley and partly within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Hewelsfield is situated 1½ miles southeast of St Briavels Castle.
Llandogo
Village
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Llandogo is a small village in Monmouthshire, south Wales, between Monmouth and Chepstow in the lower reaches of the Wye Valley AONB, two miles north of Tintern. Llandogo is situated 2 miles west of St Briavels Castle.
St Briavels Castle
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: St Briavels, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“St Briavels Castle” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “St Briavels Castle”
- Chinese: “聖布雅佛城堡”
- Danish: “St Briavel’s Castle”
- German: “St Briavels Castle”
- Japanese: “セント・ブレヴェルス城”
- Korean: “세인트 브리아벨스 성”
- Portuguese: “Castelo de St. Briavels”
- Swedish: “St Briavels Castle”
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