Bishop’s Stortford

Bishop's Stortford is an historic market town in . The historic core of Stortford is covered by a Conservation Area, with 105 heritage-listed buildings.
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  • Type: Town with 37,800 residents
  • Description: town in Hertfordshire, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire”, “Bishops Stortford”, “Bishops Strotford”, and “Esterteferd”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bishop’s Stortford railway station and Waytemore Castle.

Railway station
Photo: John Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bishop's Stortford railway station is on the West Anglia Main Line serving the town of Bishop's Stortford in , England. It is 30 miles 27 chains down the line from and is situated between and stations.

Castle
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is a ruined castle in the town of Bishop's Stortford in , . The remains are a Grade I listed structure. This began as a motte and bailey castle in the time of William the Conqueror.

Arts center
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is a venue for theatre, contemporary arts and culture, and conferences in Bishop's Stortford, , England. An adjacent 19th-century building, today Bishop's Stortford Museum, was the birthplace of Cecil Rhodes and is a centre for local history.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Little Hallingbury and Spellbrook.

Hamlet
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and a civil parish in the Uttlesford district of , England. It lies 2 miles south of the centre of Bishop's Stortford, its post town, which is over the county boundary in . is situated 2 miles south of Bishop’s Stortford.

Hamlet
is a hamlet in , situated between Bishop's Stortford and . is situated 2 miles south of Bishop’s Stortford.

Bishop’s Stortford

Latitude
51.8676° or 51° 52′ 4″ north
Longitude
0.1632° or 0° 9′ 48″ east
Population
37,800
Elevation
230 feet (70 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB BST
Open location code
9F32V597+37
Open­Street­Map ID
node 20919047
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2655562
Wiki­data ID
Q19797
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Bishop’s Stortford” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيشوب ستورتفورد”
  • Armenian: “Բիշոպս Սթորտֆորդ”
  • Asturian: “Bishop’s Stortford”
  • Basque: “Bishop’s Stortford”
  • Belarusian: “Бішапс-Стортфард”
  • Bengali: “বিশপ’স স্টোর্টফোর্ড”
  • Catalan: “Bishop’s Stortford”
  • Cebuano: “Bishop’s Stortford”
  • Cebuano: “Bishops Stortford”
  • Chinese: “毕晓普斯托福德”
  • Chinese: “畢曉普斯托福德”
  • Czech: “Bishop’s Stortford”
  • Dutch: “Bishop’s Stortford”
  • French: “Bishop’s Stortford”
  • Galician: “Bishop’s Stortford”
  • German: “Bishop’s Stortford”
  • Greek: “Μπίσοπς Στόρτφορντ”
  • Gujarati: “બિશપ્સ સ્ટ્રોર્ટફોર્ડ”
  • Hebrew: “בישופס סטורטפורד”
  • Hungarian: “Bishop’s Stortford”
  • Irish: “Bishop’s Stortford”
  • Italian: “Bishop’s Stortford”
  • Japanese: “ビショップス・ストートフォード”
  • Japanese: “ビショップズ・ストートフォード”
  • Kannada: “ಬಿಷಪ್ ಸ್ಟಾರ್ಟ್ಫೋರ್ಡ್”
  • Korean: “비숍스 스토포드”
  • Korean: “비숍스스토퍼드”
  • Ladin: “Bishop’s Stortford”
  • Latin: “Stortford Episcopi”
  • Latvian: “Bišopstortforda”
  • Lithuanian: “Bišop Stortfordas”
  • Lithuanian: “Bišops Storfordas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bishop’s Stortford”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bishop’s Stortford”
  • Norwegian: “Bishop’s Stortford”
  • Persian: “بیشاپس استورتفورد”
  • Polish: “Bishop’s Stortford”
  • Portuguese: “Bishop’s Stortford”
  • Romanian: “Bishop’s Stortford”
  • Russian: “Бишопс-Стортфорд”
  • Slovak: “Bishop’s Stortford”
  • Slovenian: “Bishop’s Stortford”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بیشاپس استورتفورد”
  • Spanish: “Bishop’s Stortford”
  • Swedish: “Bishop’s Stortford”
  • Tamil: “பிஷப் ‘ஸ் ஸ்டார்ட்போர்ட”
  • Telugu: “బిషప్స్ స్టార్ట్ఫోర్డ్”
  • Turkish: “Bishop’s Stortford”
  • Urdu: “بشپ ’ س ستورتفورڈ”
  • Urdu: “بشپس سٹورٹفورڈ”
  • Volapük: “Bishop’s Stortford”
  • Welsh: “Bishop’s Stortford”
  • “Bishop’s Stortford”

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