Sandal Castle
Sandal Castle is a ruined medieval castle in Sandal Magna, a suburb of the city of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, overlooking the River Calder. It was the site of royal intrigue and the setting for a scene in one of William Shakespeare's plays.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Castle
- Description: medieval castle in England
- Also known as: “Sandal Castle: motte and bailey castle and shell keep castle”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sandal and Agbrigg railway station and Pugneys Country Park.
Sandal and Agbrigg railway station
Railway station
Sandal and Agbrigg railway station serves the Wakefield suburbs of Sandal and Agbrigg in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Wakefield Line and is operated by Northern Trains. Sandal and Agbrigg railway station is situated 2,600 feet northeast of Sandal Castle.
Pugneys Country Park
Park
Pugneys Country Park is a 250-acre park located on the A636 between Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England and Junction 39 of the M1 motorway. It is a Local Nature Reserve.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sandal Magna and Agbrigg.
Sandal Magna
Suburb
Photo: SMJ, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sandal Magna or Sandal is a suburb of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England with a population in 2001 of 5,432. An ancient settlement, it is the site of Sandal Castle and is mentioned in the Domesday Book.
Agbrigg
Suburb
Photo: Dave Bevis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Agbrigg is a suburb of the city of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England.
Kettlethorpe
Village
Kettlethorpe, originally a separate village, is a suburb that lies 2.5 miles south of Wakefield city centre, in West Yorkshire, England. The suburb has a secondary education school, Kettlethorpe High School, which is a specialist maths and computing college.
Sandal Castle
- Categories: motte-and-bailey castle, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Wakefield, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Sandal Castle” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قلعة ساندال”
- Cebuano: “Sandal Castle”
- Chinese: “桑德爾城堡”
- Danish: “Sandal Castle”
- Dutch: “Sandal Castle”
- Finnish: “Sandalin linna”
- French: “château de Sandal”
- French: “Château de Sandal”
- German: “Sandal Castle”
- Indonesian: “Puri Sandal”
- Irish: “Caisleán Sandal”
- Japanese: “サンダル城”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sandal Castle”
- Norwegian: “Sandal Castle”
- Polish: “Sandal Castle”
- Russian: “Замок Сандал”
- Spanish: “Castillo de Sandal”
- Swedish: “Sandal Castle”
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