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Christchurch Castle

Christchurch Castle is a Norman motte and bailey castle in , . The earliest stonework has been dated to 1160. The castle's site is inside the old Saxon burh dominating the River Avon's lowest crossing.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: castle, now ruinous, in Christchurch, Dorset, England, UK
  • Postal code: BH23 1AS

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Stocks and Red House Museum and Gardens.

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are feet restraining devices that were used as a form of corporal punishment and public humiliation. The use of is seen as early as Ancient Greece, where they are described as being in use in Solon's law code.

Museum
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is situated 440 feet southwest of Christchurch Castle.

Church
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is an ecclesiastical parish and former priory church in in the county of . It is one of the longest parish churches in the country and is as large as many of the Church of England Cathedrals. is situated 490 feet southeast of Christchurch Castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wick and Stanpit.

Village
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is a village on the south bank of the River Stour in , , just short of the Stour's entry into . Along with the nearby village of , it originally formed a tithing in the Hundred of , before becoming part of the Civil Parish of in 1894.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood of in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole unitary authority in the ceremonial county of , England. is within parish, and is situated on the shore of , 1 mile east of town centre.

Suburb
is a suburb of , in the unitary authority area of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, in the ceremonial county of , England.

Christchurch Castle

Latitude
50.73338° or 50° 44′ 0″ north
Longitude
-1.77501° or 1° 46′ 30″ west
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
Open location code
9C2WP6MF+9X
Open­Street­Map ID
way 491653228
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­ruins
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
6287181
Wiki­data ID
Q1078256
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Christchurch Castle” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Christchurch Castle”
  • Chinese: “基督城城堡”
  • Danish: “Christchurch Castle”
  • Dutch: “Christchurch Castle”
  • German: “Christchurch Castle”
  • Persian: “دژ کرایستچرچ”
  • Persian: “دژ کرایست‌چرچ”
  • Portuguese: “Castelo de Christchurch”
  • Swedish: “Christchurch Castle”

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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 “Christchurch Castle”. Photo: Ulli1105, CC BY 3.0.