What is recorded here
Castle Close, Totternhoe is a castle, fort or tower in Central Bedfordshire, England. Perhaps its stones still hold the heat of hands that built them. Maybe its rooms echoed with footsteps long gone. Imagine standing inside the close, listening for a voice that never returns.
A named place photographed at this map point in Central Bedfordshire.
Built by the de Tottenhoe family in the 12th century, Castle Close is remembered as a historic site associated with the Norman settlement of Totternhoe in Bedfordshire.
Places near here
Totternhoe Memorial HallHeritage place · 298 yd
Pub Garden, Cross KeysChurch, cross or graveyard · 394 yd
The Cross Keys, TotternhoeChurch, cross or graveyard · 394 yd
Footpath to the Totternhoe CastleCastle, fort or tower · 431 yd
Totternhoe CastleArchaeological place · 476 yd
Totternhoe KnollsArchaeological place · 479 yd
The Chalk HillMountain or hill · 1.5 mi
Five Knolls round barrow cemetery: three bell barrows, two bowl barrows and two pond barrows on Dunstable DownScheduled monument · 1.6 mi
Puddlehill or Chalk HillMountain or hill · 1.6 mi
Edlesborough HillWood · 1.8 mi
Dunstable CemeteryChurch, cross or graveyard · 1.8 mi
Dunstable Downs BeaconHeritage attraction · 2.0 miOther information
Photo: Marc Cohen · CC BY-SA 2.0