Mouselow Castle
Glossop Castle is a Norman earthwork north of Glossop, off Hilltop Road, 14 miles east of Manchester, on the A57. The site is visible from the main road, standing atop a commanding ridge. Some 12 miles southeast is Peveril Castle.Photo: Bob Harvey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Castle
- Description: ringwork castle near Glossop, Derbyshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Glossop Castle” and “Ringwork in Castlehill Wood”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Hadfield railway station and Hadfield Library.
Hadfield railway station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hadfield railway station serves the Peak District town of Hadfield, in Derbyshire, England. It is one of twin termini at the Derbyshire end of the Glossop Line; the other being Glossop. Hadfield railway station is situated 2,100 feet northwest of Mouselow Castle.
Hadfield Library
Library
Photo: Braveheart, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hadfield Library is situated 2,500 feet northwest of Mouselow Castle.
Dinting railway station
Railway station
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Dinting railway station serves the village of Dinting in Derbyshire, England. It is a stop on the Glossop line and, prior to the Woodhead Line's closure in 1981, Dinting was a station on the Great Central Main Line between Manchester Piccadilly and Sheffield Victoria. Dinting railway station is situated 3,400 feet southwest of Mouselow Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Padfield and Hadfield.
Padfield
Village
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Padfield is a small village near Hadfield in High Peak, Derbyshire, England. The village is on the west side of the Peak District National Park, and the nearest town is Glossop, where many local amenities and services are based.
Hadfield
Town
Hadfield is a town in the High Peak of Derbyshire, England; it had a population of 6,763 at the 2021 Census. It lies on the south side of the River Etherow, near to the border with Greater Manchester, at the western edge of the Peak District and close to Glossop.
Old Glossop
Suburb
Photo: Dave Bevis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Old Glossop is a village and the original part of the town of Glossop in the High Peak area of Derbyshire, England, about 15 miles east of Manchester and 23 miles west of Sheffield.
Mouselow Castle
- Categories: motte-and-bailey castle, ringwork castle, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: High Peak District, Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Mouselow Castle” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mouselow Castle”
- German: “Glossop Castle”
- Portuguese: “Castelo de Glossop”
- Swedish: “Mouselow Castle”
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