Fort Belvedere
Fort Belvedere is a Grade II* listed country house on Shrubs Hill in Windsor Great Park, in Surrey, England. The fort was built as a folly by Henry Flitcroft in 1750–1755 and was later predominantly re-constructed by Jeffry Wyatville in a Gothic Revival style in the 1820s.- Type: Castle
- Description: Grade II* listed country house on Shrubs Hill in Windsor Great Park, in Surrey, England, UK
- Also known as: “Fort Belvedere, Surrey”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Coworth Park Hotel and Wentworth Club.
Coworth Park Hotel
Building
Photo: ATaylorMoore, Public domain.
Coworth House, currently known as Coworth Park Hotel, is a late 18th-century country house situated at Sunningdale, near Ascot, in the English county of Berkshire. Coworth Park Hotel is situated 1,000 feet west of Fort Belvedere.
Wentworth Club
Golf course
Photo: A1833, Public domain.
Wentworth Club is a privately owned golf club and country club in Virginia Water, Surrey, on the south western fringes of London, not far from Windsor Castle.
Valley Gardens
Garden
Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Valley Gardens are 220 acres of woodland garden, part of the Crown Estate located near Englefield Green in the English county of Surrey, on the eastern edge of Windsor Great Park. Valley Gardens is situated 1 mile northeast of Fort Belvedere.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sunningdale and Silwood Park.
Sunningdale
Village
Photo: Brendan and Ruth McCartney, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sunningdale is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England. Located in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, it takes up the extreme southeast corner of Berkshire and is adjoined by green buffers including Sunningdale Golf Club and Wentworth Golf Club.
Silwood Park
Locality
Photo: Simon Mortimer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Silwood Park is the rural campus of Imperial College London, England. It is situated near the village of Sunninghill, near Ascot in Berkshire. Since 1986, there have been major developments on the site with four new college buildings.
Cheapside
Village
Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cheapside is a hamlet in the civil parish of Sunninghill and Ascot and ecclesiastical parish of Sunninghill in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire, England which includes a primary school and had a Methodist chapel. Cheapside is situated 1½ miles northwest of Fort Belvedere.
Fort Belvedere
- Categories: English country house, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Sunningdale, Windsor and Maidenhead, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.40447° or 51° 24′ 16″ northLongitude
-0.61212° or 0° 36′ 44″ westOpen location code
9C3XC93Q+Q5OpenStreetMap ID
way 1022565144OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleWikidata ID
Q1438460
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Spanish—“Fort Belvedere” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Fort Belvedere”
- Chinese: “眺望堡”
- Chinese: “美景堡”
- Chinese: “貝維德堡”
- Dutch: “Fort Belvedere, Surrey”
- French: “Fort Belvedere”
- German: “Fort Belvedere”
- Italian: “Fort Belvedere, Surrey”
- Italian: “Fort Belvedere”
- Japanese: “フォート・ベルヴェデーレ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fort Belvedere (Surrey)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fort Belvedere, Surrey”
- Norwegian: “Fort Belvedere”
- Polish: “Fort Belvedere”
- Portuguese: “Fort Belvedere”
- Spanish: “Fort Belvedere”
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