Wigmore Castle
Wigmore Castle is a ruined castle about 1 km from the village of Wigmore in the northwest region of Herefordshire, England.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church of St James and Wigmore Abbey.
Church of St James
Church
Photo: Richard Poyer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St James is situated 1,600 feet east of Wigmore Castle.
Wigmore Abbey
Ruins
Photo: Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wigmore Abbey was an abbey of Canons Regular with a grange, from 1179 to 1530, situated about a mile north of the village of Wigmore, Herefordshire, England: grid reference SO 410713. Wigmore Abbey is situated 1¼ miles north of Wigmore Castle.
Church of St Mary Magdalene
Church
Photo: Philip Pankhurst, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Mary Magdalene is situated 2 miles east of Wigmore Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wigmore and Adforton.
Wigmore
Village
Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wigmore is a village and civil parish in the Northwest of Herefordshire county, England. It is located on the A4110 road, about 8 miles west of the town of Ludlow, in the Welsh Marches.
Adforton
Village
Adforton is a small village and a civil parish in north Herefordshire, England. It is on the A4110 main road approximately 22 miles north of Hereford and of Wigmore, and is close to the Wales border.
Leinthall Earls
Hamlet
Leinthall Earls or Leinthall Earles is a village in Aymestrey civil parish, Herefordshire, England. Leinthall Earls is situated 2½ miles southeast of Wigmore Castle.
Wigmore Castle
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: castle in Herefordshire, England, UK
- Categories: castle, archaeological site, tourism, ruins, and historic site
- Location: Wigmore, Herefordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.31825° or 52° 19′ 6″ northLongitude
-2.86921° or 2° 52′ 9″ westElevation
597 feet (182 metres)Open location code
9C4V849J+88OpenStreetMap ID
way 343093805OpenStreetMap feature
historic=ruinsOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
6287175Wikidata ID
Q7999673
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Uzbek—“Wigmore Castle” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Wigmore Castle”
- Cebuano: “Wigmore Castle”
- Chinese: “威格莫尔城堡”
- Chinese: “威格莫爾城堡”
- Danish: “Wigmore Castle”
- German: “Wigmore Castle”
- Japanese: “ウィグモア城”
- Portuguese: “Castelo de Wigmore”
- Russian: “Вигморский замок”
- Swedish: “Wigmore Castle”
- Turkish: “Wigmore Kalesi”
- Uzbek: “Vigmor qalʻasi”
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