Boarstall Tower
Boarstall Tower is a 14th-century moated gatehouse located in Boarstall, Buckinghamshire, England, and now, with its surrounding gardens, a National Trust property.Photo: Graham Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Boarstall Duck Decoy and Bernwood Forest.
Boarstall Duck Decoy
Forest
Photo: MortimerCat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Boarstall Duck Decoy is a 17th-century duck decoy located in Boarstall, Buckinghamshire, England, and now a National Trust property. The system took advantage of a two-acre lake with pipe-cage tunnels running out of it.
Bernwood Forest
Forest
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bernwood Forest is a forest in England. Historically it was one of several forests of the ancient Kingdom of England and was a Royal hunting forest. It is thought to have been set aside as Royal hunting land when the Anglo-Saxon kings had a palace at Brill and church in Oakley, in the 10th century and was a particularly favoured place of Edward the Confessor, who was born in nearby Islip. Bernwood Forest is situated 2 miles south of Boarstall Tower.
Muswell Hill
Peak
Photo: David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Muswell Hill is a 0.2-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Brill in Buckinghamshire. The local planning authorities are Buckinghamshire County Council and Aylesbury Vale District Council.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Honeyburge and Arncott.
Honeyburge
Village
Photo: Jackie Harman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Honeyburge is a hamlet in the civil parish of Boarstall in Buckinghamshire, England. The hamlet is on Dane's Brook next to Boarstall Wood. Honeyburge is 0.25 miles east of the M40 motorway, less than 0.5 miles south of Boarstall village and about 8 miles by road south of the market town of Bicester in neighbouring Oxfordshire.
Arncott
Village
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Arncott or Arncot is a village and civil parish about 3+1⁄2 miles southeast of Bicester in Oxfordshire. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 1,738. Arncott is situated 2 miles north of Boarstall Tower.
Murcott
Village
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Murcott is a village between the River Ray and Otmoor in the civil parish of Fencott and Murcott, about 4 miles south of Bicester in Oxfordshire, England. Murcott is situated 2½ miles west of Boarstall Tower.
Boarstall Tower
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: Grade I listed house in Boarstall, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
- Categories: historic house museum, house, gatehouse, building, and tourism
- Location: Boarstall, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.82336° or 51° 49′ 24″ northLongitude
-1.09563° or 1° 5′ 44″ westElevation
331 feet (101 metres)Operator
National TrustOpen location code
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In Other Languages
From Danish to Urdu—“Boarstall Tower” goes by many names.
- Danish: “Boarstall Tower”
- Irish: “Boarstall Tower”
- Polish: “Wieża Boarstall”
- Spanish: “Torre Boarstall”
- Turkish: “Boarstall Kulesi”
- Urdu: “بورستول مینار”
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