Buckton Castle
Buckton Castle was a medieval enclosure castle near Carrbrook in Stalybridge, a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. Historically part of Cheshire, it was surrounded by a 2.8-metre-wide stone curtain wall and a ditch 10 metres wide and 6 metres deep.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Richard Nevell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: 12th-century castle in Mossley, Greater Manchester, England, UK
- Also known as: “Buckeden”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mossley railway station and Mossley Hollins High School.
Mossley railway station
Railway station
Photo: Paul Anderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mossley railway station in Mossley, Greater Manchester, England, is on the Huddersfield Line 9.9 miles north-east of Manchester Victoria and is managed by Northern, which do not provide any services to or from this station. Mossley railway station is situated 1 mile west of Buckton Castle.
Mossley Hollins High School
School
Mossley Hollins High School is a coeducational secondary school located in Mossley, in the borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester. The school's original building was opened in the 1960s. Mossley Hollins High School is situated 4,000 feet northwest of Buckton Castle.
Church of St John the Baptist
Church
Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St John the Baptist is situated 1¼ miles northwest of Buckton Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Carrbrook and Heyheads.
Carrbrook
Village
Photo: Nev1, Public domain.
Carrbrook is a village east of Stalybridge, in Greater Manchester, England. Historically part of Cheshire, the area still has many seventeenth and eighteenth-century buildings.
Heyheads
Hamlet
Heyheads is the easternmost area of Stalybridge, in Greater Manchester, England. The area includes the 16th century Grade II listed Nos 1, 2 and 3 Moorgate Farmhouse and adjoining barn and shippon buildings.
Mossley
Town
Photo: G-Man, Public domain.
Mossley is a town and civil parish in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, in the upper Tame Valley and the foothills of the Pennines, 3 miles south-east of Oldham and 9 miles east of Manchester.
Buckton Castle
- Categories: enclosure castle, hilltop castle, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Mossley, Tameside, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.51116° or 53° 30′ 40″ northLongitude
-2.0178° or 2° 1′ 4″ westElevation
1,030 feet (314 metres)Open location code
9C5VGX6J+FVOpenStreetMap ID
node 2891619609OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Tunisian Arabic—“Buckton Castle” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قلعة باكتون”
- Cebuano: “Buckton Castle”
- Chinese: “巴克頓堡”
- Finnish: “Bucktonin linna”
- French: “château de Buckton”
- French: “Château de Buckton”
- German: “Buckton Castle”
- Marathi: “बकटन कॅसल”
- Portuguese: “Castelo de Buckton”
- Swedish: “Buckton Castle”
- Tunisian Arabic: “قلعة باكتون”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Moorgate and Carrbrook Fold.
Nearby Places
Explore places such as Micklehurst Cricket & Social Club and Carrbrook, Buckton Vale Road / opposite Long Row.
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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 “Buckton Castle”. Photo: Richard Nevell, CC BY-SA 2.0.