Bodiam Castle
Bodiam Castle is a 14th-century moated castle near Robertsbridge in East Sussex, England. It was built in 1385 by Sir Edward Dalyngrigge, a former knight of Edward III, with the permission of Richard II, ostensibly to defend the area against French invasion during the Hundred Years' War.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Bodiam railway station and The Parish Church of St Giles.
Bodiam railway station
Railway station
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Bodiam railway station is a heritage railway station on the Kent and East Sussex Railway in Bodiam, East Sussex. Bodiam railway station is situated 2,300 feet southwest of Bodiam Castle.
The Parish Church of St Giles
Church
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The Parish Church of St Giles is situated 2,100 feet northwest of Bodiam Castle.
Great Dixter
Manor estate
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Great Dixter is a house in Northiam, East Sussex, England. It was built in 1910–12 by architect Edwin Lutyens, who combined an existing mid-15th century house on the site with a similar structure brought from Benenden, Kent, together with his own additions. Great Dixter is situated 2 miles east of Bodiam Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bodiam and Ewhurst Green.
Bodiam
Village
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Bodiam is a small village and civil parish in the Rother District of East Sussex, England. It lies in the valley of the River Rother, near to the villages of Sandhurst and Ewhurst Green.
Ewhurst Green
Village
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Ewhurst Green is a village and the main settlement of the civil parish Ewhurst, in the Rother district, in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located 10 miles north of Hastings in the valley of the River Rother.
Sandhurst
Village
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Sandhurst is a village in the borough of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England, close to the border with East Sussex. It is situated on the A268 road near the villages of Hawkhurst and Northiam. Sandhurst is situated 2 miles northeast of Bodiam Castle.
Bodiam Castle
- Type: Castle
- Description: 14th-century moated castle near Robertsbridge in East Sussex, England, UK
- Categories: quadrangular castle, historic house museum, ruins, archaeological site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Bodiam, Rother District, East Sussex, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Bodiam Castle” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قلعة بوديام”
- Armenian: “Բոդիամ դղյակ”
- Azerbaijani: “Bodiam qəsri”
- Basque: “Bodiam gaztelua”
- Breton: “Kastell Bodiam”
- Bulgarian: “Боудиъм”
- Bulgarian: “Замък Бодиам”
- Bulgarian: “Замък Боудиъм”
- Catalan: “Bodiam Castle”
- Catalan: “castell de Bodiam”
- Catalan: “Castell de Bodiam”
- Cebuano: “Bodiam Castle”
- Chinese: “博丁安城堡”
- Chinese: “波定堡”
- Czech: “Bodiam”
- Danish: “Bodiam Castle”
- Dutch: “Bodiam Castle”
- Dutch: “Bodiam”
- Esperanto: “Kastelo Bodiam”
- Finnish: “Bodiamin linna”
- French: “Bodiam Castle”
- French: “château de Bodiam”
- French: “Château de Bodiam”
- German: “Bodiam Castle”
- Greek: “Κάστρο Μπόντιαμ”
- Hebrew: “טירת בודיאם”
- Hungarian: “bodiami vár”
- Hungarian: “Bodiami vár”
- Icelandic: “Bodiam kastali”
- Icelandic: “Bodiam-kastali”
- Irish: “Caisleán Bodiam”
- Italian: “castello di Bodiam”
- Italian: “Castello di Bodiam”
- Japanese: “ボウディアム城”
- Japanese: “ボディアム城”
- Latin: “Castellum Bodiam”
- Lithuanian: “Bodiamo pilis”
- Malayalam: “ബോഡിയം കോട്ട”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bodiam Castle”
- Norwegian: “Bodiam Castle”
- Persian: “قلعه بودیام”
- Polish: “Zamek Bodiam”
- Portuguese: “Bodiam Castle”
- Portuguese: “Castelo Bodiam”
- Portuguese: “Castelo de Bodiam”
- Russian: “Замок Бодиам”
- Slovak: “Hrad Bodiam”
- Slovenian: “Grad Bodiam”
- Spanish: “Castillo de Bodiam”
- Swedish: “Bodiam Castle”
- Tamil: “போடியம் கோட்டைமனை”
- Thai: “ปราสาทโบเดียม”
- Turkish: “Bodiam Kalesi”
- Ukrainian: “Замок Бодіам”
- Vietnamese: “Lâu đài Bodiam”
- Welsh: “Bodiam”
- Welsh: “Castell Bodiam”
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