Belsay Castle
Belsay Castle is a 14th-century medieval castle situated at Belsay, Northumberland, England. It is a Scheduled Monument and a Grade I listed building. The main structure, a substantial three-storey rectangular pele tower with rounded turrets and battlements, was constructed about 1370, and was the home of the Middleton family.Photo: Brian Norman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: medieval castle ruins in Northumberland, England, UK
- Wheelchair access: no
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Belsay Hall and Aruna Ratanagiri.
Belsay Hall
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Belsay Hall is a Regency style country house located at Belsay, Northumberland. It is regarded as the first British country house to be built entirely in the new Greek Revival style. Belsay Hall is situated 1,300 feet southeast of Belsay Castle.
Aruna Ratanagiri
Buddhist temple
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery is a Theravada Buddhist monastery of the Thai Forest Tradition in Northumberland, England. The community consists of monks, novices and postulants from a wide range of nationalities, usually numbering around eight Sangha members. Aruna Ratanagiri is situated 1¼ miles northwest of Belsay Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Belsay and Bolam.
Belsay
Village
Photo: Brian Norman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Belsay is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England. The village is about 5 miles from Ponteland on the A696, which links the village with Newcastle upon Tyne and Jedburgh.
Bolam
Village
Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bolam is a village in the civil parish of Belsay in the county of Northumberland, England. The village is about 20 miles north-west of Newcastle upon Tyne, near Bolam West Houses. Bolam is situated 2½ miles north of Belsay Castle.
Ogle
Village
Photo: Phil Thirkell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ogle is a village in and former civil parish, now in the parish of Whalton, Northumberland, England, north-west of Ponteland and south-west of Morpeth. Ogle is situated 3 miles east of Belsay Castle.
Belsay Castle
- Categories: castle, building, tourism, historic site, and manor estate
- Location: Belsay, Northumberland, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.10129° or 55° 6′ 5″ northLongitude
-1.86874° or 1° 52′ 8″ westElevation
436 feet (133 metres)Operator
English HeritageOpen location code
9C7W442J+GGOpenStreetMap ID
way 137363570OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=manorOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=no
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Uzbek—“Belsay Castle” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Բելսիի դղյակ”
- Cebuano: “Belsay Castle”
- Chinese: “貝西城堡”
- Danish: “Belsay Castle”
- French: “château de Belsay”
- French: “Château de Belsay”
- German: “Belsay Castle”
- Russian: “Замок Белси”
- Swedish: “Belsay Castle”
- Turkish: “Belsay Kalesi”
- Ukrainian: “Замок Белсі”
- Uzbek: “Belsi qal’asi”
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