Hertfordshire
Dacorum District
Berkhamsted

Berkhamsted Castle

Berkhamsted Castle is a Norman motte-and-bailey castle in , . The castle was built to obtain control of a key route between London and the Midlands during the Norman conquest of England in the 11th century.
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  • Type: Castle
  • Description: castle in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Berkhamsted motte and bailey castle”
  • Postal code: HP4 1LJ

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Berkhamsted railway station and The Rex.

Railway station
Photo: Cnbrb, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is in the historic market town of , , England. It is located just beside Berkhamsted Castle, overlooking the Grand Junction Canal. is situated 870 feet west of Berkhamsted Castle.

Movie theater
Photo: Lucy Downey, CC BY 2.0.
is a cinema in the town of , , England. Designed in the art deco style by David Evelyn Nye in 1936, the cinema opened to the public in 1938. is situated 1,900 feet south of Berkhamsted Castle.

Museum
is a local history advocacy group in the United Kingdom. It collects and records the history of the Borough of Dacorum, , in the south of England, and aims to encourage the appreciation of the heritage of Dacorum. is situated 1,900 feet southwest of Berkhamsted Castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Little Heath and Potten End.

Hamlet
is a partly wooded area with scattered housing, just south of the village of , , England. It represents the top of the plateau and has distinctive geological beds that remain while they have been eroded elsewhere.

Village
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in west , England. It is located in the , two miles east-north-east of , three miles north west of and two miles south east of the National Trust estate of Ashridge.

Hamlet
Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small hamlet in , England. It sits in the , about two miles north of the town of , which it's part of. is situated 1½ miles northeast of Berkhamsted Castle.

Berkhamsted Castle

Latitude
51.76384° or 51° 45′ 50″ north
Longitude
-0.55925° or 0° 33′ 33″ west
Elevation
367 feet (112 metres)
Operator
English Heritage
Open location code
9C3XQC7R+G7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 24304491
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Geo­Names ID
6287216
Wiki­data ID
Q4892150
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Uzbek—“Berkhamsted Castle” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Berkhamsted Castle”
  • Chinese: “伯咸特城”
  • Czech: “zámek Berkhamsted”
  • Danish: “Berkhamsted Castle”
  • Finnish: “Berkhamstedin linna”
  • French: “château de Berkhamsted”
  • French: “Château de Berkhamsted”
  • German: “Berkhamsted Castle”
  • Hebrew: “טירת ברקהמסטד”
  • Italian: “castello di Berkhamsted”
  • Italian: “Castello di Berkhamsted”
  • Japanese: “バーカムステッド城”
  • Russian: “замок Беркхамстед”
  • Russian: “Замок Беркхамстед”
  • Slovenian: “Berkhamsted Castle”
  • Slovenian: “grad Berkhamsted”
  • Swedish: “Berkhamsted Castle”
  • Uzbek: “Berkhamsted qalʼasi”
  • Uzbek: “Berkxamsted 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 “Berkhamsted Castle”. Photo: Winstainforth, CC BY-SA 3.0.