Tamworth Castle

Tamworth Castle, a Grade I listed building, is a Norman castle overlooking the mouth of the River Anker into the Tame in the town of Tamworth in Staffordshire, England.

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Type: Castle
Description: Grade I listed Norman motte and bailey castle and museum in Tamworth, Staffordshire, United Kingdom
Address: Tamworth, B79 7NA

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Tamworth Town Hall and Tamworth Assembly Rooms.

Tamworth Town Hall

Town hall

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Tamworth Town Hall is a municipal building in Market Street, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England. The town hall, which is the meeting place of Tamworth Borough Council is a Grade II* listed building. Tamworth Town Hall is situated 350 feet northeast of Tamworth Castle.

Tamworth Assembly Rooms

Theater building

Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Tamworth Assembly Rooms is a theater building, which is situated 690 feet north of Tamworth Castle.

Tamworth Library

Library

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Tamworth Library is situated 870 feet northeast of Tamworth Castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Belgrave and Wigginton.

Belgrave

Suburb

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Belgrave is an area of Tamworth, Staffordshire, roughly 1+1⁄2 miles from the town centre. The main feature of Belgrave is Marlborough way which cuts the area in half.

Wigginton

Hamlet

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Wigginton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Wigginton and Hopwas, in the Lichfield district, in the county of Staffordshire, England. Wigginton is situated 1½ miles north of Tamworth Castle.

Hopwas

Village

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Hopwas is a village in Staffordshire, England. It lies along the North West borders of Tamworth Borough and 5 miles east of Lichfield. It is situated where the A51 road crosses both the River Tame and the Coventry Canal. Hopwas is situated 2 miles west of Tamworth Castle.

Tamworth Castle

Categories: museum, local authority museum, archaeological site, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Tamworth, Staffordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

52.63261° or 52° 37′ 57″ north

Longitude

-1.69675° or 1° 41′ 48″ west

Elevation

203 feet (62 metres)

Open location code

9C4WJ8M3+28

OpenStreetMap ID

way 75739303

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=castle

GeoNames ID

6287298

Wikidata ID

Q7681908

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Welsh—“Tamworth Castle” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Tamworth Castle”
Danish: “Tamworth Castle”
French: “château de Tamworth”
French: “Château de Tamworth”
German: “Schloss Tamworth”
German: “Tamworth Castle”
Italian: “Castello di Tamworth”
Japanese: “タムワース城”
Swedish: “Tamworth Castle”
Turkish: “Tamworth Kalesi”
Welsh: “castell Tamworth”

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