Old Wardour Castle, Tisbury

Name: Old Wardour Castle
Address: Nr Tisbury, Tisbury, SP3 6RR, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1747 870487

#1 among attractions in Tisbury

Top attraction, Historical place, Forts and castles, History museum

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Facts and practical information

Wardour Castle is a ruined 14th-century castle at Wardour, on the boundaries of the civil parishes of Tisbury and Donhead St Andrew in the English county of Wiltshire, about 15 miles west of Salisbury. The castle was built in the 1390s, came into the ownership of the Arundells in the 16th century and was rendered uninhabitable in 1643 and 1644 during the English Civil War. A Grade I listed building, it is managed by English Heritage and open to the public. ()

Alternative names: Built: XIV centuryCoordinates: 51°2'11"N, 2°5'20"W

Address

Nr TisburyTisbury SP3 6RR United Kingdom

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+44 1747 870487

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Day trips

Old Wardour Castle – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Gold Hill, Shaftesbury Town Hall, Fovant Badges, Vale of Wardour.

5.2 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Specialty museum
Gold Hill, Shaftesbury
132 min walk • Gold Hill is a steep cobbled street in the town of Shaftesbury in the English county of Dorset. The view looking down from the top of the street has been described as "one of the most romantic sights in England." At the top of the street is the 14th-century St Peter's Church...
5.2 miSW
City hall
Shaftesbury Town Hall, Shaftesbury
132 min walk • Shaftesbury Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street, Shaftesbury, Dorset, England. The town hall, which is the meeting place of Shaftsbury Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.
4.9 miE
Memorial
Fovant Badges
126 min walk • The Fovant Badges are a set of regimental badges cut into a chalk hill, Fovant Down, near Fovant, in southwest Wiltshire, England. They are located between Salisbury and Shaftesbury on the A30 road in the Nadder valley; or approximately 1⁄2 mile southeast of Fovant.
1.5 miNE
Valley
Vale of Wardour, Tisbury
39 min walk • The Vale of Wardour encompasses the valley of the River Nadder in the county of Wiltshire, England.
3.6 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Win Green Down
93 min walk • Win Green Down at grid reference ST927209 in south-western Wiltshire, England is a 26.0 hectares biological Site of Special Scientific Interest, notified in 1971.
5.5 miS
Archaeological site
Cranborne Chase
141 min walk • Cranborne Chase is a chalk plateau in central southern England, straddling the counties Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire. The plateau is part of the English Chalk Formation and is adjacent to Salisbury Plain and the West Wiltshire Downs in the north, and the Dorset Downs to the south west.
3.5 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Fonthill Lake
89 min walk • Fonthill Lake is a lake in southwest Wiltshire, England. It lies just to the south of the village of Fonthill Bishop, east of the village of Fonthill Gifford, and northeast of Fonthill Abbey.
5.7 miNE
Museum, History museum
Philipps House
145 min walk • Philipps House is an early nineteenth-century Neo-Grecian country house at Dinton, overlooking the Nadder valley about 8 miles west of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.
5 miSE
Village
Bowerchalke
129 min walk • Bowerchalke is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 9 miles southwest of Salisbury. It is in the south of the county, about 1 mile from the boundary with Dorset and 2 miles from that with Hampshire.
5.2 miE
Sport, Sport venue
Gurston Down Motorsport Hillclimb
133 min walk • The Gurston Down Speed Hill Climb is a hillclimb in Broad Chalke, Wiltshire, England, organised by the South Western Centre of the British Automobile Racing Club.