Etal Castle
Etal Castle is a ruined medieval fortification in the village of Etal, Northumberland, England. It was built around 1341 by Robert Manners, and comprised a residential tower, a gatehouse and a corner tower, protected by a curtain wall.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: Grade I listed castle in Ford, Northumberland, England, UK
- Also known as: “Etal Castle tower house”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Etal Castle Gate Tower, South Curtain Wall And South West Tower and Church of St Mary the Virgin.
Etal Castle Gate Tower, South Curtain Wall And South West Tower
Castle
Photo: Shermozle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Church of St Mary the Virgin
Church
Photo: Phil Thirkell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Mary the Virgin is situated 1,200 feet east of Etal Castle.
Etal Manor
Residential building
Photo: Barbara Carr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Etal Manor is a residential building, which is situated 1,500 feet east of Etal Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Etal and Crookham.
Etal
Village
Etal is a small village in the far north of the county of Northumberland, England, in the civil parish of Ford. It lies on a bridging point of the River Till ten miles south west of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and includes the substantial ruins of the medieval Etal Castle, now owned by English Heritage.
Crookham
Village
Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Crookham is a village on the River Till in Northumberland, in England. It is situated approximately 8 km to the east of Coldstream and 14 km northwest of Wooler.
Ford and Etal
Ford and Etal are neighbouring villages in Northumberland, which together with Crookham have a population of 500. They're separate villages around their own castle, but "Ford and Etal" is the name of the landholding estate.
Etal Castle
- Categories: castle, ruins, tower house, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Ford, Northumberland, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.64732° or 55° 38′ 50″ northLongitude
-2.12052° or 2° 7′ 14″ westElevation
138 feet (42 metres)Open location code
9C7VJVWH+WQOpenStreetMap ID
way 344726905OpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
6287006Wikidata ID
Q1981061
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Uzbek—“Etal Castle” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Etal Castle”
- Chinese: “依投城堡”
- Danish: “Etal Castle”
- Dutch: “Etal Castle”
- German: “Etal Castle”
- Russian: “Замок Итал”
- Swedish: “Etal Castle”
- Ukrainian: “замок Італ”
- Ukrainian: “Замок Італ”
- Uzbek: “Ital qal’asi”
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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 “Etal Castle”. Photo: JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.