Peckforton Castle
Peckforton Castle is a Victorian country house built in the style of a medieval castle. It stands in woodland at the north end of Peckforton Hills one mile northwest of the village of Peckforton, Cheshire, England.Photo: Bs0u10e01, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Peter Styles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Beeston Castle and Smithy Cottage.
Beeston Castle
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Beeston Castle is a former Royal castle in Beeston, Cheshire, England, perched on a rocky sandstone crag 350 feet above the Cheshire Plain. It was built in the 1220s by Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester, on his return from the Crusades. Beeston Castle is situated 4,200 feet north of Peckforton Castle.
Smithy Cottage
Residential building
Photo: Dave.Dunford, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Smithy Cottage is a residential building, which is situated 3,400 feet northeast of Peckforton Castle.
St John’s Church, Burwardsley
Church
Photo: Peter I. Vardy, Public domain.
St John's Church is in School Lane, Burwardsley, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. St John’s Church, Burwardsley is situated 1½ miles southwest of Peckforton Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tiverton and Tattenhall.
Tiverton
Hamlet
Photo: Mike Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tiverton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Tiverton and Tilstone Fearnall, in the Cheshire West and Chester district and ceremonial county of Cheshire in England. Tiverton is situated 2 miles northeast of Peckforton Castle.
Tattenhall
Tattenhall is a village in Cheshire. It is near to Beeston Castle, a ruined 13th-century castle, and sits along the Sandstone Trail, a long-distance walkers' path, between Frodsham to Whitchurch.
Wettenhall
Village
Photo: Peter Styles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wettenhall is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The village lies 3½ miles to the south west of Winsford and 6 miles to the north west of Crewe. Wettenhall is situated 6 miles east of Peckforton Castle.
Peckforton Castle
- Type: Castle
- Description: Grade I listed country house in Peckforton, Cheshire, England, UK
- Categories: English country house, country house hotel, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Peckforton, Cheshire East, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.11769° or 53° 7′ 4″ northLongitude
-2.69886° or 2° 41′ 56″ westInception
1844Open location code
9C5V4892+3FOpenStreetMap ID
way 963717862OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleWikidata ID
Q2160653
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Peckforton Castle” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قلعة بيكفورتن”
- Armenian: “Փեքֆորտոն ամրոց”
- Basque: “Peckforton gaztelua”
- Catalan: “Castell de Peckforton”
- Chinese: “佩科夫頓城堡”
- Danish: “Peckforton Castle”
- Dutch: “Peckforton Castle”
- Finnish: “Peckfortonin linna”
- French: “château de Peckforton”
- French: “Château de Peckforton”
- French: “Peckforton Castle”
- German: “Peckforton Castle”
- Japanese: “ペックフォートン城”
- Russian: “Замок Пекфортон”
- Russian: “Пекфортонский замок”
- Spanish: “Castillo de Peckforton”
- Turkish: “Peckforton Kalesi”
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Highlights include Peckforton Hill and Stanner Nab.
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