Gidleigh Castle

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Substantial ruinsruined, but plenty survives above ground

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Gidleigh Castle is a castle in Devon. It is one of 55 castles the Albion Guide maps in the county. It sits within Dartmoor National Park.

The nearest other castle is Cranbrook Castle, 6.8 km to the east. The closest station is Okehampton Interchange, 9.6 km to the north-west.

More places to visit near Gidleigh Castle

Granite tors, wild ponies and England's largest expanse of open moorland in the south.

A mock-Tudor country-house hotel hidden in a wooded Dartmoor valley near Chagford.

0.9 km SE

Dining pub in the Dartmoor stannary village of Chagford.

3.1 km E

A river-fed pool dug by Chagford villagers in 1933 beside the Teign on the edge of Dartmoor, still run by volunteers.

3.6 km E

Lutyens's granite castle above Teign Gorge.

5.8 km E

Ale served from a back tap room off the passage of a thatched Dartmoor-edge inn, long kept by the legendary Mabel Mudge.

7 km E