Castlemore, Ontario
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Castlemore is a suburb
Suburb
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an community that is located 14 km northeast of Brampton
Brampton
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 proper and 45 km northwest of Toronto
Toronto
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, in Ontario
Ontario
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, Canada
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. It is a neighbourhood of Brampton northwest of Claireville
Claireville, Ontario
Claireville is an unincorporated community in Brampton, Ontario, Canada bordering Toronto. It is bounded by Goreway Drive to the west, Highway 50 to the east, Steeles Avenue to the south and Castlemore Road to the north...

, and also consists of the neighbourhoods of Alloa and Coleraine
Coleraine, Ontario
Coleraine is a community in the Canadian province of Ontario....

.

It is an area that has been in active and rapid development since the early 1990s, with large residential developments occurring in the southeastern portion in the 2000s. The majority of the population live in luxury homes with large minimum 2 acres (8,093.7 m²) lots - over 24 m (80 ft).

Castlemore is southwest of Bolton
Bolton, Ontario
Bolton is the most populated community in the town of Caledon, located in the Region of Peel, approximately 50 kilometres northwest of Toronto, in Ontario, Canada. In regional documents, it is referred to as a 'Rural Service Centre'. It has 26,478 residents in 8,721 households...

 and southeast of Caledon
Caledon, Ontario
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 and Orangeville
Orangeville, Ontario
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, and west of Woodbridge
Woodbridge, Ontario
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. It is accessible from Highway 427 via Highway 7
Highway 7 (Ontario)
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, and The Gore and the Highway 407 at the Goreway interchange or at Airport Road interchange.

The West Humber River
Humber River (Ontario)
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 flows through the western portion of Castlemore.

Geography

Farmlands formerly surrounded the centre of Castlemore, whereas forests are the dominant feature in the Etobicoke Creek
Etobicoke Creek
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 and the West Humber River
Humber River (Ontario)
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 valleys, which include the outlying hills and a conservation area to the south. To the north is more farmland.

Other

Castlemore has a few schools, a high school, a hockey arena, a swimming pool, a library, a post office, plazas, banks and parks. It has numerous residential estates.

History

The larger lots arrived in the 1970s and expanded in the northern portion of Castlemore in the 1980s. Large lots still continued until the 2000s. In 1996, Castlemore was connected with Rutherford, the construction took several months between March and June, in 1997, a road linking Bolton and Highway 7 (then Highway 50) expanded. In 2001, the southwestern portion near Springdale expanded and south of Castlemore since 2002 continues with smaller lots, in 2004.

A portion of the luxury homes are around Alloa. A small industrial building is at Cadetta and in the 2000s added Sears
Sears Canada
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east of Castlemore. In 2004, the Chateaus began between Mayfield and Countryside and Goreway. The luxury homes are between Airport and Goreway and the Gore and Castlemore Road and Mayfield.
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