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Beeston

Beeston Castle

Beeston Castle is a former Royal castle in , , England, perched on a rocky sandstone crag 350 feet above the . It was built in the 1220s by Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester, on his return from the Crusades.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: former Royal castle and museum in Beeston, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Beeston Castle and Woodland Park”
  • Address: Chapel Lane, Cheshire, CW6 9TX

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Peckforton Castle and Smithy Cottage.

Castle
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is a Victorian country house built in the style of a medieval castle. It stands in woodland at the north end of Peckforton Hills one mile northwest of the village of , , England. is situated 4,200 feet south of Beeston Castle.

Residential building
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is a residential building, which is situated 2,500 feet southeast of Beeston Castle.

Memorial
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is situated 1¼ miles northeast of Beeston Castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tiverton and Tattenhall.

Hamlet
Photo: Mike Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of and Tilstone Fearnall, in the district and ceremonial county of in England.

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is a village in . It is near to Beeston Castle, a ruined 13th-century castle, and sits along the Sandstone Trail, a long-distance walkers' path, between Frodsham to Whitchurch.

Village
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is a civil parish and village between and , in the unitary authority of and the ceremonial county of , England. is situated 5 miles northeast of Beeston Castle.

Beeston Castle

Latitude
53.12872° or 53° 7′ 43″ north
Longitude
-2.69329° or 2° 41′ 36″ west
Elevation
459 feet (140 metres)
Open location code
9C5V48H4+FM
Open­Street­Map ID
way 371472395
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
6286903
Wiki­data ID
Q539538
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Welsh—“Beeston Castle” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “castell de Beeston”
  • Catalan: “Castell de Beeston”
  • Cebuano: “Beeston Castle”
  • Chinese: “比斯頓城堡”
  • Danish: “Beeston Castle”
  • Dutch: “Beeston Castle”
  • Finnish: “Beestonin linna”
  • French: “château de Beeston”
  • French: “Château de Beeston”
  • Galician: “Castelo de Beeston”
  • German: “Beeston Castle”
  • Hebrew: “מבצר ביסטון”
  • Irish: “Caisleán Beeston”
  • Italian: “Beeston Castle”
  • Italian: “Castello di Beeston”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Castel de Beeston”
  • Malay: “Istana Kota Beeston”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Beeston Castle”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Beeston Castle”
  • Norwegian: “Beeston Castle”
  • Portuguese: “Castelo de Beeston”
  • Russian: “Бистонский замок”
  • Spanish: “Castillo de Beeston”
  • Swedish: “Beeston Castle”
  • Uzbek: “Biston qalʻasi”
  • Welsh: “Castell Beeston”
  • Welsh: “Castell y Felallt”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Beeston and Wharton’s Lock.

Nearby Places

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Beeston Castle”. Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.