Guildford Castle
Guildford Castle is in Guildford, Surrey, England. It is thought to have been built by William the Conqueror, or one of his barons, shortly after the 1066 invasion of England.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Richard Nevell (WMUK), CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: castle in Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
- Address: Guildford, GU1 3TU
- Wheelchair access: no
Photo: N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Guildford Museum and Castle Arch.
Guildford Museum
Museum
Photo: Nickuae, Public domain.
Guildford Museum is the main museum in the town of Guildford, Surrey, England. The museum is on Quarry Street, a narrow road lined by pre-1900 cottages running just off the pedestrianised High Street.
Castle Arch
Historic building
Photo: Dreampoolimages, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Castle Arch is a historic building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Guildford and Onslow Village.
Guildford
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Guildford is a large town in Surrey in the South East of England. It has retained much of its historical charm. A short walk up the cobbled high street shows many buildings which are hundreds of years old.
Onslow Village
Suburb
Guildford is a town in west Surrey, England, around 27 mi southwest of central London. As of the 2011 census, the town had a population of about 77,000; it is the seat of the wider Borough of Guildford, which had around 151,359 inhabitants in 2024.
Abbotswood
Suburb
Abbotswood is a suburb of Burpham in Surrey, England, it's also quite near to Guildford. Abbotswood is the closest part of Burpham to Guildford and its only distinctively named neighbourhood.
Guildford Castle
- Categories: historic house museum, castle, building, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Guildford District, Surrey, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.23427° or 51° 14′ 3″ northLongitude
-0.57242° or 0° 34′ 21″ westElevation
174 feet (53 metres)Open location code
9C3X6CMH+P2OpenStreetMap ID
way 35954768OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=noGeoNames ID
6287204Wikidata ID
Q139629
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Guildford Castle” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Guildford Castle”
- Danish: “Guildford Castle”
- Dutch: “Guildford Castle”
- French: “château de Guildford”
- French: “Château de Guildford”
- German: “Guildford Castle”
- Japanese: “ギルフォード城”
- Polish: “Zamek Guildford”
- Portuguese: “Castelo de Guildford”
- Swedish: “Guildford Castle”
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