Barnard Castle
Barnard Castle is a small market town in County Durham in North East England. It has a picturesque ruined castle and the over-the-top Bowes Museum. Dickens, Wordsworth, JMW Turner, Defoe and Sir Walter Scott were all inspired here.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ben Gamble, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Nick Bramhall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 5,500 residents
- Description: town in County Durham, England, UK
- Also known as: “Barnard Castle, Co Durham”, “Barnard Castle, Co. Durham”, and “Barnard Castle, County Durham”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bowes Museum and Egglestone Abbey.
Bowes Museum
Museum
The Bowes Museum is an art gallery in the town of Barnard Castle, in County Durham in northern England. It was built to designs by Jules Pellechet and John Edward Watson to house the art collection of John Bowes and his wife Joséphine Benoîte Coffin-Chevallier, and opened in 1892.
Egglestone Abbey
Photo: Jonathan Oldenbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Egglestone Abbey is a ruined Premonstratensian abbey in County Durham, England. It is located 1+1⁄2 miles south-east of Barnard Castle, on the south bank of the River Tees, and was historically within the North Riding of Yorkshire.
HM Prison Deerbolt
Prison
HM Prison Deerbolt is a male Category C Training Prison in Barnard Castle, County Durham, England. The prison is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lartington and Startforth.
Lartington
Hamlet
Photo: Ben Gamble, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lartington is a village and civil parish about 2 miles west of the town of Barnard Castle, in Teesdale, in the Pennines of England. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 135.
Startforth
Village
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Startforth is a village on the Pennines end of south Teesdale, England. The population of Startforth taken at the 2011 Census was 1,361. It was in the historic North Riding of Yorkshire.
Boldron
Hamlet
Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Boldron is a village in the Pennines of England, situated close to Barnard Castle. It was historically located in the North Riding of Yorkshire, but along with the rest of the former Startforth Rural District it was transferred to County Durham for administrative and ceremonial purposes on 1 April 1974, under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972.
Barnard Castle
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: County Durham, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.5448° or 54° 32′ 41″ northLongitude
-1.9246° or 1° 55′ 29″ westPopulation
5,500Elevation
538 feet (164 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BCAOpen location code
9C6WG3VG+W4OpenStreetMap ID
node 27593292OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Barnard Castle” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قلعة بارنارد”
- Armenian: “Բերնարդ Քասլ”
- Asturian: “Barnard Castle”
- Basque: “Barnard Castle”
- Bengali: “বার্নার্ড ক্যাসল”
- Cebuano: “Barnard Castle (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Barnard Castle”
- Chinese: “Barnard Castle”
- Chinese: “巴納堡”
- Chinese: “巴納德城堡”
- Chinese: “巴納德堡”
- Chinese: “巴纳堡”
- Czech: “Barnard Castle”
- Danish: “Barnard Castle”
- Dutch: “Barnard Castle”
- Egyptian Arabic: “قلعة بارنارد”
- French: “Barnard Castle”
- German: “Barnard Castle”
- Gujarati: “બર્નાર્ડ કેસલ”
- Irish: “Caisleán Barnard”
- Italian: “Barnard Castle”
- Japanese: “バーナードキャッスル”
- Japanese: “バーナード城”
- Kannada: “ಬರ್ನಾರ್ಡ್ ಕ್ಯಾಸಲ್”
- Korean: “바너드 캐슬”
- Latin: “Bernardi Castellum”
- Lithuanian: “Bernard Kastlas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Barnard Castle”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Barnard Castle (by)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Barnard Castle”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Barnard Castle”
- Norwegian: “Barnard Castle”
- Persian: “برنارد کستل”
- Polish: “Barnard Castle”
- Portuguese: “Barnard Castle”
- Romanian: “Barnard castle”
- Romanian: “Barnard Castle”
- Russian: “Барнард-Касл”
- Slovenian: “Barnard Castle”
- South Azerbaijani: “برنارد کستل”
- Spanish: “Barnard Castle”
- Spanish: “Barnard de Balliol”
- Swedish: “Barnard Castle”
- Tamil: “பர்னார்ட் காஸ்ட்லே”
- Telugu: “బర్నార్డ్ క్యాస్టేల్”
- Turkish: “Barnard Castle”
- Urdu: “بارنارد کاسل”
- Volapük: “Barnard Castle”
- Welsh: “Barnard Castle”
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