Lidgate Castle
Lidgate Castle is a medieval motte and bailey castle in the village of Lidgate, Suffolk, England, built to an unusual quadrangular design.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: castle in Suffolk, England, UK
- Also known as: “Lidgate castle”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church of St Mary and Church of St Peter.
Church of St Peter
Church
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Peter is situated 1¼ miles northeast of Lidgate Castle.
All Saints Parish Church, Kirtling
Church
Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
All Saints Parish Church, Kirtling is situated 2 miles west of Lidgate Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lidgate and Upend.
Lidgate
Village
Lidgate is a small village and a civil parish in the West Suffolk district, in the English county of Suffolk. Lidgate is located on the B1063 road in between the towns of Newmarket and Clare.
Upend
Village
Upend is a hamlet in the east of Cambridgeshire, England. It is five miles south-east of Newmarket and lies in the same parish as Kirtling. Until the 15th century Upend was called Upheme which is old English for "the up-dwelling".
Ousden
Village
Ousden is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. It is located around 6 miles west of Bury St Edmunds and 72 miles north of London, and as of 2011, its population is 266.
Lidgate Castle
- Categories: castle, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Lidgate, St. Edmundsbury District, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.19512° or 52° 11′ 42″ northLongitude
0.51677° or 0° 31′ 0″ eastElevation
262 feet (80 metres)Open location code
9F425GW8+2POpenStreetMap ID
way 931978156OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Lidgate Castle” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Lidgate Castle”
- German: “Lidgate Castle”
- Swedish: “Lidgate 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 “Lidgate Castle”. Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.