Barnard Castle
Barnard Castle is a ruined medieval castle situated in the town of the same name in County Durham, England.- Type: Park
- Description: castle in England
- Also known as: “Barnard Castle Grounds”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Barnard Castle Bridge and Bowes Museum.
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. Bowes Museum is situated 2,200 feet east of Barnard Castle.
Market Cross
Monument
Barnard Castle Market Cross is an octagonal construction in the market town of Barnard Castle, County Durham, England. It was built in 1747 by Thomas Breaks and is a Grade I listed building. Market Cross is situated 510 feet southeast of Barnard Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Startforth and Westwick.
Startforth
Village
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.
Westwick
Hamlet
Westwick is a village in County Durham, in England. The population of the civil parish was less than 100. Details are maintained in the parish of Whorlton. It is situated to the east of Barnard Castle near the River Tees. Westwick is situated 1½ miles east of Barnard Castle.
Boldron
Hamlet
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. Boldron is situated 1½ miles southwest of Barnard Castle.
Barnard Castle
- Categories: ringwork castle, archaeological site, tourism, recreation area, and tourist attraction
- Location: Barnard Castle, County Durham, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.5429° or 54° 32′ 34″ north
Longitude
-1.92584° or 1° 55′ 33″ west
Operator
English Heritage
Open location code
9C6WG3VF+5M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=park
OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Uzbek—“Barnard Castle” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Замак Барнард”
- Cebuano: “Barnard Castle (kastilyo)”
- Cebuano: “Barnard Castle”
- Chinese: “巴納德城堡”
- Danish: “Barnard Castle”
- Dutch: “Barnard Castle (kasteel)”
- Dutch: “Barnard Castle”
- French: “château de Barnard”
- French: “Château de Barnard”
- German: “Barnard Castle”
- Italian: “Castello di Barnard”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Barnard Castle (slott)”
- Norwegian: “Barnard Castle”
- Portuguese: “Castelo Barnard”
- Russian: “Замок Барнард”
- Slovenian: “Barnard Castle”
- Slovenian: “grad Barnard”
- Swedish: “Barnard Castle (slott)”
- Swedish: “Barnard Castle”
- Turkish: “Barnard Kalesi”
- Ukrainian: “Замок Барнард”
- Uzbek: “Barnard qal’asi”
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