Pevensey Castle
Pevensey Castle is a medieval castle and former Roman Saxon Shore fort at Pevensey in the English county of East Sussex. The site is a scheduled monument in the care of English Heritage and is open to visitors.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Castle
- Description: medieval castle in a former Roman fort at Pevensey in East Sussex, England, UK
- Also known as: “Anderida Castle” and “Pevensey Castle: a Saxon Shore fort, Norman defences, a medieval enclosure castle, and later associated remains”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St Nicolas Church, Pevensey and St Mary’s Church, Westham.
St Nicolas Church, Pevensey
Church
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St Nicolas' Church is the Anglican parish church of the village of Pevensey in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England. The church is a Grade I Listed building. St Nicolas Church, Pevensey is situated 810 feet east of Pevensey Castle.
St Mary’s Church, Westham
Church
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St Mary's Church, Westham, is an active Anglican parish church in High Street, Westham, East Sussex, England, standing to the west of Pevensey Castle. The earliest fabric in the church, in the south wall of the nave and in the transept, dates from the late 11th century. St Mary’s Church, Westham is situated 1,200 feet southwest of Pevensey Castle.
Pevensey & Westham railway station
Railway station
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Pevensey & Westham railway station serves the villages of Pevensey and Westham in East Sussex, England. It is on the East Coastway Line, and train services are provided by Southern. Pevensey & Westham railway station is situated 2,200 feet southwest of Pevensey Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Normans Bay and Boreham Street.
Normans Bay
Hamlet
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Normans Bay is a coastal fishing hamlet in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England. The 8th Duke of Devonshire donated this land for a combined school and place of worship in the 1860s to be known as Pevensey Sluice. Normans Bay is situated 2½ miles east of Pevensey Castle.
Boreham Street
Hamlet
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Boreham Street is a small village in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England. Its nearest towns are Hailsham, which lies approximately 6 miles west of the village and Battle, which lies approximately 6.5 miles to the east. Boreham Street is situated 4½ miles north of Pevensey Castle.
Eastbourne
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Eastbourne is a popular and traditional sea-side resort town in East Sussex, on England's South East coast. It has one of the highest recorded days of sunshine per year in Britain and its climate is notable for its relatively high sunshine levels, with the town claiming to be the "Sunniest Place in the UK".
Pevensey Castle
- Categories: archaeological site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Pevensey, Wealden District, East Sussex, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Turkish—“Pevensey Castle” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Anderida”
- Catalan: “Castell de Pevensey”
- Catalan: “Pevensey Castle”
- Cebuano: “Pevensey Castle”
- Chinese: “佩文西城堡”
- Danish: “Pevensey Castle”
- Dutch: “Pevensey Castle”
- Esperanto: “Kastelo Pevensey”
- French: “château de Pevensey”
- French: “Château de Pevensey”
- Italian: “Castello di Pevenseu”
- Italian: “Castello di Pevensey”
- Japanese: “ペヴェンジー城”
- Malay: “Istana kota Pevensey”
- Malay: “Istana Kota Pevensey”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pevensey Castle”
- Norwegian: “Pevensey Castle”
- Persian: “قلعه پونزی”
- Portuguese: “Castelo de Pevensey”
- Russian: “Замок Певенси”
- Slovenian: “grad Pevensey”
- Spanish: “Castillo de Pevensey”
- Swedish: “Pevensey Castle”
- Turkish: “Pevensey Kalesi”
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