Shirburn Castle
Shirburn Castle is a Grade I listed, moated castle located at the village of Shirburn, near Watlington, Oxfordshire. Originally constructed in the fourteenth century, it was renovated and remodelled in the Georgian era by Thomas Parker, the first Earl of Macclesfield who made it his family seat, and altered further in the early nineteenth century.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Colin Bates, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include All Saints Church, Shirburn and Watlington Methodist Church.
All Saints Church, Shirburn
Church
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
All Saints' Church is the redundant Church of England parish church of the parish of Shirburn, Oxfordshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building, and is in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
Watlington Methodist Church
Church
Photo: David Hillas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Watlington Methodist Church is situated 1 mile southwest of Shirburn Castle.
Church of St Leonard
Church
Photo: Michael Ford, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Leonard is situated 1 mile southwest of Shirburn Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shirburn and Pyrton.
Shirburn
Hamlet
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Shirburn is a village and civil parish about 6 miles south of Thame in Oxfordshire. It contains the Grade I listed, 14th-century Shirburn Castle, along with its surrounding, Grade II listed park, and a parish church, the oldest part of which is from the Norman period.
Pyrton
Hamlet
Photo: Shaun Ferguson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pyrton is a small village and large civil parish in Oxfordshire about 1 mile north of the small town of Watlington and 5 miles south of Thame. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 227.
Watlington
Town
Watlington is a small market town and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England, about 7 miles south of Thame. It is near Oxfordshire's eastern edge and less than 2 miles from its border with Buckinghamshire.
Shirburn Castle
- Type: Castle
- Description: medieval castle in Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Categories: quadrangular castle, English country house, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Shirburn, South Oxfordshire District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.6584° or 51° 39′ 30″ northLongitude
-0.99439° or 0° 59′ 40″ westElevation
367 feet (112 metres)Open location code
9C3XM254+96OpenStreetMap ID
way 217356741OpenStreetMap feature
building=castleOpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleGeoNames ID
6286755Wikidata ID
Q7498342
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Shirburn Castle” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Shirburn Castle”
- Danish: “Shirburn Castle”
- German: “Shirburn Castle”
- Italian: “Castello di Shirburn”
- Japanese: “シャーバーン城”
- Swedish: “Shirburn Castle”
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