Thornbury Castle
Thornbury Castle is a grade I listed castle. Its place is inside Thornbury’s built-up area. Our list has 39 more places within 15 km; first among them is Chepstow Castle, at 11 km.
Castle in Thornbury
Inside Thornbury
Thornbury Castle is inside Thornbury’s built-up area, with 1 more place to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓
Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
The weather, month by month
If warmth matters, go May to September: Thornbury reaches 17–22°C.
Thornbury Castle
Articles on it exist in 7 languages.
- Type
- Castle
- Wikipedias
- Covered in 7 languages
- Town
- in Thornbury
The area around Thornbury Castle
The map centres on Thornbury Castle, in orange, with nearby places numbered.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · The dashed line is Thornbury’s built-up area. · ONS built-up area 2022
Towns close to Thornbury Castle
In size, Thornbury comes first of the 7, with 14,483 people. All of these towns include it on their pages.
Thornbury
Alveston
Rudgeway
Tytherington
Compare the 7 towns
| Town | Where Thornbury Castle is | People | Places to visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thornbury | It’s in town | 14,483 | 4 |
| Alveston | 2 km south of it | 2,065 | 4 |
| Rudgeway | 3.5 km south of it | 346 | 3 |
| Tytherington | 3.6 km southeast of it | 807 | 5 |
| Tockington | 3.8 km southwest of it | 444 | 4 |
| Olveston | 4.4 km southwest of it | 1,009 | 4 |
| Falfield | 5.4 km northeast of it | 297 | 3 |
Also within reach
3 castles, 2 abbeys or priories and a fort are among the 39 within 15 km.
Castle · CadwChepstow Castle11 km away2
Abbey or priory · CadwTintern Abbey14 km away3
CastleBerkeley Castle9.7 km away4
CastleCaldicot Castle15 km away5
Abbey or priory · English HeritageKingswood Abbey11 km away6
Fort · CadwChepstow Port Wall11 km away7
ZooBristol Zoo Project11 km away8
Historic house · National TrustNewark Park15 km awayWithin 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.
Visiting Thornbury Castle
Where is Thornbury Castle?
Thornbury Castle is in Thornbury, Gloucestershire, inside the town’s built-up area.
What is Thornbury Castle?
Grade I listed castle in South Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.
When is the best time to visit Thornbury Castle?
May to September are the warmest months in Thornbury, with afternoon highs of 17–22°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).
What else is there to see near Thornbury Castle?
Within 15 km: Chepstow Castle (11 km), Tintern Abbey (14 km), Berkeley Castle (9.7 km) and Caldicot Castle (15 km).
Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.
Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (9)
- Thornbury Castle: nick sarebi, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Chepstow Castle: eszgé, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tintern Abbey: Saffron Blaze, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Berkeley Castle: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Caldicot Castle: Nick, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kingswood Abbey: Throwawayhack, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Chepstow Port Wall: Pasicles, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bristol Zoo Project: Charlie Marshall, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Newark Park: Nancy, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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