Hailes Castle
Hailes Castle was a castle in the village of Hailes in Gloucestershire, England. The castle was built around the 11th or early 12th century near the church in the village.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: castle in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Hailes Abbey”, “Hailes Castle, Gloucestershire”, and “Hailes Castle, Stanway”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Hailes Abbey and Hailes Church.
Hailes Abbey
Museum
Photo: Bill Tyne, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hailes Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey, in the small village of Hailes, two miles northeast of Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England. It was founded in 1246 as a daughter establishment of Beaulieu Abbey in Hampshire.
Hailes Church
Church
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hailes Church is situated 420 feet north of Hailes Castle.
Hayles Abbey Halt railway station
Railway station
Photo: roger geach, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hayles Abbey Halt railway station is a halt opened by the Great Western Railway on the Honeybourne Line from Honeybourne to Cheltenham which served the hamlet of Hailes in Gloucestershire, as well as the nearby Hailes Abbey, between 1928 and 1960. Hayles Abbey Halt railway station is situated 2,700 feet northwest of Hailes Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Didbrook and Farmcote.
Didbrook
Village
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Didbrook is a village in the civil parish of Stanway, in the Tewkesbury district, in Gloucestershire, England, 8 miles north-east of Cheltenham. The village lies near the foot of the Cotswold escarpment.
Farmcote
Hamlet
Farmcote is a hamlet in the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, England. It lies 2 miles east of the town of Winchcombe and 2 miles west of Temple Guiting. Farmcote is a small place, a few houses along a dead end lane, but has a long history.
Winchcombe
Photo: Prichardson, Public domain.
Winchcombe is a town of 5,300 people in the Cotswolds. Winchcombe is a popular destination for walkers and history fans. With people often visiting the running Gloucestershire Warwickshire Heritage Railway steam train that connects it to Broadway and the Cheltenham Racecourse; and Sudeley Castle, the burial place of Queen Katherine Parr, that lies on its outskirts.
Hailes Castle
- Categories: ringwork castle, tourism, ruins, grassland, and historic site
- Location: Stanway, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.96862° or 51° 58′ 7″ northLongitude
-1.92805° or 1° 55′ 41″ westElevation
341 feet (104 metres)Open location code
9C3WX39C+CQOpenStreetMap ID
way 977346677OpenStreetMap feature
historic=ruinsOpenStreetMap feature
landuse=grassOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Hailes Castle” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Hailes Castle”
- German: “Hailes Castle”
- Swedish: “Hailes Castle”
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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 “Hailes Castle”. Photo: neil hanson, CC BY-SA 2.0.