Peterborough Castle
Peterborough Castle, also known as Mount Thorold and Touthill, was a medieval motte and bailey castle in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Castle
- Description: castle in the UK
- Also known as: “Mount Thorold” and “Touthill and site of castle bailey”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Peterborough Cathedral and St John the Baptist Church, Peterborough.
Peterborough Cathedral
Church
Photo: NotFromUtrecht, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Peterborough Cathedral, properly the Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew, and formerly known as Peterborough Abbey or St Peter's Abbey, is a cathedral in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, in the United Kingdom. Peterborough Cathedral is situated 420 feet southwest of Peterborough Castle.
St John the Baptist Church, Peterborough
Church
Photo: Julian Dowse, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St John the Baptist Church is a Grade I listed Church of England parish church in the city of Peterborough, now Cambridgeshire, England. St John the Baptist Church, Peterborough is situated 1,200 feet west of Peterborough Castle.
Peterscourt
Building
Photo: Alan Murray-Rust, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Peterscourt is a building in Peterborough, on City Road, which was designed by George Gilbert Scott and completed in 1859. It is Grade II listed.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Peterborough and Eastgate.
Peterborough
Photo: Mdbeckwith, CC0.
Peterborough is a city in Cambridgeshire in East Anglia, with a population of 202,259 in 2019. It's industrial and ringed by bland "New Town" residential districts, yet has an attractive historic centre around its cathedral, where two British monarchs were buried.
Eastgate
Suburb
Eastgate is a suburb of Peterborough, in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies immediately to the east of Peterborough Cathedral and west of Fengate.
West Town
Suburb
West Town is residential area of the city of Peterborough, in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. For electoral purposes it forms part of Peterborough West ward.
Peterborough Castle
- Categories: archaeological site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Peterborough, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Peterborough Castle” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Piterboro qəsri”
- Belarusian: “Замак Пітэрбара”
- Belarusian: “Пітэрбара”
- Cebuano: “Mount Thorold”
- Chinese: “彼得伯勒城堡”
- Danish: “Peterborough Castle”
- Dutch: “Peterborough Castle”
- French: “Peterborough Castle”
- German: “Peterborough Castle”
- Greek: “Κάστρο του Πίτερμπρο”
- Hungarian: “Peterborough kastély”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Peterborough Castle”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Peterborough Castle”
- Russian: “Замок Питерборо”
- Spanish: “castillo de Peterborough”
- Spanish: “Castillo de Peterborough”
- Swedish: “Mount Thorold”
- Swedish: “Peterborough Castle”
- Ukrainian: “замок Пітерборо”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Eastfield and New Fletton.
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