Traditional county: Cambridgeshire · Unitary authority: City of Peterborough · Region: Eastern
Explore Castor, Cambridgeshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Castor map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
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| Place | Castor |
| Traditional County | Cambridgeshire |
| Unitary Authority | City of Peterborough |
| Region | Eastern |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.571540 |
| Longitude | -0.341744 |
| Place Type | Village |
Castor holds a quiet authority over the limestone ridges that rise above the Nene valley. It lies 4.2 miles west of Peterborough (from Peterborough: bearing 269°T, OS grid TL 124 983), and is situated east-south-east of Ailsworth village. The architecture of Castor wears the grey, weathered skin of local stone, a material that seems to absorb the pale, thin light of the Cambridgeshire winters. Beneath the surface of the quiet fields, the earth keeps the secrets of the Castor Village Roman Sites, where the foundations of antiquity wait in the silence of the soil. To the south, the Splash Dike drifts through the landscape, its slow, rhythmic movement marking the passage of seasons across the flood plains. The parish church, dedicated to St Kyneburgha, anchors the skyline with a Norman tower that has watched the horizon sharpen and fade for centuries. Beyond the residential lanes, the vast stretch of the Roman Site in Normangate Field suggests a scale of human ambition that has long since returned to the grass. Castor remains a place where the weight of the past is not a burden, but a constant, grounding presence in the modern day.
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Explore Castor, Cambridgeshire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 52.571540, -0.341744. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | August 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |