Whitwick Castle
Whitwick Castle is a castle in North West Leicestershire, Leicestershire, England. Whitwick Castle is situated nearby to the pub Three Horseshoes, as well as near the village Thringstone.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Three Horseshoes and Mount St Bernard Abbey.
Three Horseshoes
Pub
Photo: Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Three Horseshoes is a Grade II listed public house at 11 Leicester Road, Whitwick, Leicestershire LE67 5GN. It is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors. Three Horseshoes is situated 810 feet southeast of Whitwick Castle.
Mount St Bernard Abbey
Monastery
Photo: Gtatler, Public domain.
Mount St Bernard Abbey is a Roman Catholic monastery belonging to the Trappist Order, near Coalville, Leicestershire, England, founded in 1835 in the parish of Whitwick and now in that of Charley. Mount St Bernard Abbey is situated 1¼ miles east of Whitwick Castle.
Church of St Andrew
Church
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Church of St Andrew is situated 1 mile northwest of Whitwick Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Whitwick and Thringstone.
Whitwick
Village
Photo: Kev747, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Whitwick is a large village and civil parish in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England, some two miles north of Coalville in the northwest of the county.
Thringstone
Village
Photo: Trevor Rickard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thringstone is a village in the North West Leicestershire district, in Leicestershire, England. About 3 miles north of Coalville, it lies in the English National Forest.
Swannington
Village
Photo: Ian Calderwood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Swannington is a former mining village in North West Leicestershire, England. A document of 1520 mentions five pits at Swannington. It was a terminus of the early Leicester and Swannington Railway that was built to serve the townships of Swannington and Thringstone and is built on a spot reputedly chosen by William Wordsworth, a frequent guest of Sir George Beaumont of nearby Coleorton Hall.
Whitwick Castle
- Type: Castle
- Description: motte-and-bailey castle in Whitwick, North West Leicestershire, England, UK
- Categories: motte-and-bailey castle, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: North West Leicestershire, Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Whitwick Castle” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Whitwick Castle”
- German: “Whitwick Castle”
- Italian: “Castello di Whitwick”
- Swedish: “Whitwick Castle”
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