Donnington Castle
Donnington Castle is a ruined medieval castle, situated in the small village of Donnington, just north of the town of Newbury in the English county of Berkshire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Watermill Theatre and Rack Marsh.
Watermill Theatre
Theater building
Photo: Sheps, Public domain.
The Watermill Theatre is a producing theatre in Bagnor, Berkshire. It opened in 1967 in Bagnor Mill, a converted watermill on the River Lambourn. As a producing house, the theatre has staged works that have subsequently moved on to the West End, including the 2004 revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, which also transferred to Broadway in 2006. Watermill Theatre is situated 3,300 feet west of Donnington Castle.
Rack Marsh
Nature reserve
Rack Marsh is a 4-hectare nature reserve in Bagnor, on the north-western outskirts of Newbury in Berkshire. It is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.
Shaw House
Government office
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Shaw House is an important example of an early symmetrical H-plan Elizabethan mansion, located at Shaw, a village on the north-eastern outskirts of Newbury in Berkshire. The house is Grade I listed and the park and gardens are Grade II. Shaw House is situated 1 mile southeast of Donnington Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Woodspeen and Shaw.
Woodspeen
Hamlet
Photo: Pam Brophy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Woodspeen is a small village in Berkshire, England, and part of the civil parish of Speen. The settlement lies near to the A34 road, and is located approximately 2.5 miles north-west of Newbury. It is near the Newbury suburb of Speen.
Shaw
Village
Photo: Pam Brophy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Shaw is a village in Berkshire, England. It is located to the north of Newbury, near the village of Donnington. It is in the parish of Shaw-cum-Donnington.
Newbury
Town
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Newbury is a market town in West Berkshire, England, in the valley of the River Kennet. It is 26 miles south of Oxford, 25 miles north of Winchester, 27 miles southeast of Swindon and 20 miles west of Reading.
Donnington Castle
- Type: Castle
- Description: ruined medieval castle in Berkshire, England
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Shaw-cum-Donnington, West Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.41964° or 51° 25′ 11″ northLongitude
-1.33838° or 1° 20′ 18″ westElevation
384 feet (117 metres)Operator
English HeritageOpen location code
9C3WCM96+VJOpenStreetMap ID
way 346970796OpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleGeoNames ID
6286749Wikidata ID
Q849861
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Uzbek—“Donnington Castle” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Դոնինգտոն ամրոց”
- Cebuano: “Donnington Castle”
- Chinese: “當寧頓城堡”
- Danish: “Donnington Castle”
- Dutch: “Donnington Castle”
- Finnish: “Donningtonin linna”
- French: “château de Donnington”
- French: “Château de Donnington”
- German: “Donnington Castle”
- Italian: “Castello di Donnington”
- Italian: “Donnington Castle”
- Japanese: “ドニントン城”
- Persian: “قلعه دونینگتون”
- Polish: “Zamek Donnington”
- Russian: “Замок Доннингтон”
- Spanish: “Castillo Donnington”
- Swedish: “Donnington Castle”
- Turkish: “Donnington Kalesi”
- Uzbek: “Donnington qalʼasi”
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