Eye Castle
Eye Castle is a motte and bailey medieval castle with a prominent Victorian addition in the town of Eye, Suffolk. Built shortly after the Norman conquest of England in 1066, the castle was sacked and largely destroyed in 1265.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Castle
- Description: castle in Suffolk, England, UK
- Also known as: “Remains of motte and bailey castle 120m west of St Peter’s Church”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Ss Peter and Paul Church, Eye and Eye Town Hall.
Ss Peter and Paul Church, Eye
Church
Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ss Peter & Paul Church is a Church of England parish church in the market town of Eye, Suffolk. It is a Grade I listed building for its historical and architectural importance. Ss Peter and Paul Church, Eye is situated 330 feet east of Eye Castle.
Eye Town Hall
Town hall
Photo: Adrian Cable, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eye Town Hall is a municipal building in Broad Street in Eye, Suffolk, England. The building, which is the meeting place of Eye Town Council, is a Grade II* listed building. Eye Town Hall is situated 970 feet northwest of Eye Castle.
Eye Priory
Historic site
Photo: Sandy Gerrard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eye Priory was a Benedictine Priory dedicated to St Peter in the town of Eye in the English county of Suffolk. It was founded by Robert Malet c. 1080, and was originally an Alien Priory dependent on Bernay Abbey in Normandy. Eye Priory is situated 1,900 feet northeast of Eye Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eye and Braiseworth.
Eye
Town
Photo: Adrian Cable, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eye is a market town and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district, in the north of the English county of Suffolk, about 4 miles south of Diss, 17.5 miles north of Ipswich and 23 miles south-west of Norwich.
Braiseworth
Hamlet
Braiseworth is a village in Suffolk, England. It has never reached any great size, and no longer has its own parish church. The medieval church was dismantled in the 1850s, parts being incorporated into the new church, consecrated in 1857 and designed by the Victorian "rogue" architect Edward Buckton Lamb, who also designed the controversial town hall at nearby Eye.
Yaxley
Village
Yaxley is a small village just west of Eye in Suffolk, England. The name means 'cuckoo-clearing'. Yaxley is situated 1½ miles west of Eye Castle.
Eye Castle
- Categories: motte-and-bailey castle, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Eye, Mid Suffolk District, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.32011° or 52° 19′ 12″ northLongitude
1.15014° or 1° 9′ 1″ eastElevation
112 feet (34 metres)Open location code
9F4385C2+23OpenStreetMap ID
way 305446966OpenStreetMap feature
historic=castle
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Eye Castle” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Eye Castle”
- Danish: “Eye Castle”
- German: “Eye Castle”
- Portuguese: “Castelo de Eye”
- Portuguese: “Castelo Eye”
- Swedish: “Eye 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 “Eye Castle”. Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.