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Bishop’s Castle

Bishop's Castle is a market town in the south west of , England. According to the 2011 Census it had a population of 1,893. Bishop's Castle is 1.5 miles east of the Wales–England border, about 20 miles north-west of and about 20 miles south-west of .
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  • Type: Town with 1,890 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in Shropshire, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Bishop’s Castle, Shropshire” and “Bishops Castle”
  • Postal code: SY9

Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of St John the Baptist and Church of the Holy Trinity.

Church
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Church
Photo: Dave Croker, CC BY-SA 2.0.

School
Bishop's Castle Community College is a coeducational secondary school located in Bishop's Castle in the English county of . Established in 1922 as Bishop's Castle County High School, today it is a foundation school administered by Shropshire Council.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lydham and Colebatch.

Village
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is a small village and civil parish in , England. is situated on the junction of the A488 and the A489 main roads, about 2 miles north of Bishop's Castle.

Village
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is a small village and civil parish in southwest , England. The population of the Civil Parish as at the 2011 census was 210. The village lies on the A488, one mile south of Bishop's Castle, on the road to .

Village
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is a village and a geographically large civil parish in south , England. The population of the parish at the 2011 census was 695. is situated 2½ miles southeast of Bishop’s Castle.

Bishop’s Castle

Latitude
52.4936° or 52° 29′ 37″ north
Longitude
-2.9979° or 2° 59′ 53″ west
Population
1,890
Elevation
656 feet (200 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB QWR
Open location code
9C4VF2V2+FR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29729666
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2655572
Wiki­data ID
Q2469037
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Bishop’s Castle” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Bishop’s Castle”
  • Basque: “Bishop’s Castle”
  • Cebuano: “Bishop’s Castle”
  • Chinese: “Bishop’s Castle”
  • Chinese: “主教城堡”
  • Dutch: “Bishop’s Castle”
  • Esperanto: “Episkopa Kastelo”
  • French: “Bishop’s Castle”
  • Irish: “Bishop’s Castle”
  • Italian: “Bishop’s Castle”
  • Japanese: “ビショップス・キャッスル”
  • Japanese: “ビショップズ・キャッスル”
  • Ladin: “Bishop’s Castle”
  • Latin: “Castrum Episcopi”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bishop’s Castle”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bishop’s Castle”
  • Persian: “بیشاپس کستل”
  • Polish: “Bishop’s Castle”
  • Romanian: “Bishop’s Castle”
  • Russian: “Бишопс-Касл”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بیشاپس کستل”
  • Spanish: “Bishop’s Castle”
  • Swedish: “Bishop’s Castle”
  • Turkish: “Bishop’s Castle”
  • Volapük: “Bishop’s Castle”
  • Welsh: “Trefesgob, Swydd Amwythig”
  • Welsh: “Trefesgob”

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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 “Bishop’s Castle”. Photo: Flying Stag, CC BY-SA 2.0.