Wiston Castle
Wiston Castle is a motte and bailey castle in the Pembrokeshire village of Wiston in south west Wales and is one of the best examples of its type in Wales.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Lucy-sheers, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Clarbeston Road railway station and Church of St. John the Baptist.
Clarbeston Road railway station
Railway station
Photo: Ulleskelf, Public domain.
Clarbeston Road railway station serves villages such as Clarbeston Road, Clarbeston, Wiston, Walton East and Crundale in Pembrokeshire, Wales. The station, originally named Clarbeston, was opened by the South Wales Railway on 2 January 1854. Clarbeston Road railway station is situated 2 miles north of Wiston Castle.
Church of St. John the Baptist
Church
Photo: Peter Wood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St. John the Baptist is situated 1½ miles south of Wiston Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wiston and Slebech.
Wiston
Hamlet
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wiston is a village, parish and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales, in the United Kingdom. It was once a marcher borough. George Owen, in 1603, described it as one of nine Pembrokeshire "boroughs in decay".
Slebech
Hamlet
Photo: Peter Shaw, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Slebech was a community in Pembrokeshire, Wales, which is now part of the combined community of Uzmaston and Boulston and Slebech, a sparsely populated community on the northern shore of the Eastern River Cleddau. Slebech is situated 1½ miles south of Wiston Castle.
Clarbeston
Hamlet
Photo: Roger W Haworth, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Clarbeston is a village and parish in Pembrokeshire, Wales, 11 km east of Haverfordwest. The parish, together with Wiston and Walton East, constitute the community of Wiston. The population was 318 at the 2011 census. Clarbeston is situated 2½ miles northeast of Wiston Castle.
Wiston Castle
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: castle in Wiston, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
- Categories: motte-and-bailey castle, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Wiston, Pembrokeshire, South Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.8268° or 51° 49′ 37″ northLongitude
-4.87133° or 4° 52′ 17″ westElevation
377 feet (115 metres)Operator
CadwOpen location code
9C3QR4GH+PFOpenStreetMap ID
way 895662741OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteGeoNames ID
6287055Wikidata ID
Q8027762
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Wiston Castle” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Wiston Castle”
- Danish: “Wiston Castle”
- French: “château de Wiston”
- French: “Château de Wiston”
- German: “Wiston Castle”
- Swedish: “Wiston Castle”
- Welsh: “Castell Cas-wis”
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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 “Wiston Castle”. Photo: Lucy-sheers, CC BY-SA 4.0.