Castlethorpe
Castlethorpe is a locality in Milton Keynes, England. Castlethorpe is situated nearby to the locality Church End, as well as near the village Hanslope.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Castlethorpe Castle and Church of St Simon and St Jude.
Castlethorpe Castle
Archaeological site
Castlethorpe Castle stood in the village of Castlethorpe, to the north of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. This was originally a motte and bailey castle with a timber structure built by Winemar, the Flemish Lord of Hanslope in the 11th or 12th Century.
Church of St Simon and St Jude
Church
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Simon and St Jude Church is a late 12th century parish church in Castlethorpe, City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It was formerly a chapelry of Hanslope.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wolverton and Stony Stratford.
Wolverton
Town
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Wolverton is a constituent town of Milton Keynes, England. It is located in the north-west of the city, beside the West Coast Main Line, the Grand Union Canal and the river Great Ouse. Wolverton is situated 3 miles southeast of Castlethorpe.
Stony Stratford
Town
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Milton Keynes is a city of 245,000 people in the South East of England. Milton Keynes is well known in the UK as a planned city built in the 1960s with emphatically modernist architecture. Stony Stratford is situated 3 miles south of Castlethorpe.
Yardley Gobion
Village
Photo: Phil Catterall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Yardley Gobion is a village and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England. The village is off a by-pass of the A508 road between Northampton and Milton Keynes.
Castlethorpe
- Type: Locality
- Location: Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.1013° or 52° 6′ 5″ northLongitude
-0.8497° or 0° 50′ 59″ westElevation
276 feet (84 metres)Open location code
9C4X4522+G4GeoNames ID
7291159
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