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Bawdrip

Bawdrip is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England.

The place

Bawdrip is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England. The village is on the south side of the Polden Hills about 4 miles (6.4 km) north-east of Bridgwater. At the 2011 census the parish had a population of 506. The parish includes the hamlets of Bradney, Horsey and Knowle.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bawdrip

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Willow Man

    Willow Man is a large outdoor sculpture by Serena de la Hey. It is in a field to the west of the M5 motorway, near Bridgwater in Somerset, South West England, near to the Bristol to Exeter railway line and south of junction 23 of the motorway.

    2.7 km · outdoor sculpture in Somerset, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Mary, Woolavington

    The Church of St Mary in Woolavington, Somerset, England has 11th-century origins and is a Grade I listed building.

    2 km · church in Woolavington, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Michael and All Angels, Puriton

    The Church of St Michael and All Angels in Puriton, Somerset, England was constructed from local Blue Lias stone. It has an early 13th-century tower, with the remainder of the building dating from the 14th and 15th centuries.

    2.9 km · church in Puriton, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Down End Castle

    Down End Castle, also known as Downend Castle, Chisley Mount or Chidley Mount, was a motte-and-bailey castle at Down End, north of Dunball in the parish of Puriton, Somerset, England. It has been designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

    3.7 km · motte-and-bailey castle in Puriton, Sedgemoor, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Mary, Chedzoy

    The Anglican Church of St Mary in Chedzoy, Somerset, England dates from the 13th century and has been designated as a grade I listed building. There is evidence of a Church in Chedzoy in 1166 when it was given along with the parent church in North Petherton to Buckland Priory.

    2.1 km · church in Chedzoy, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Mary

    The Anglican Church of St Mary in Cossington within the English county of Somerset was built in the 13th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    1.5 km · church in Cossington, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St Michael and All Angels

    The Anglican Church of St Michael and All Angels in Bawdrip, Somerset, England was built in the late 13th or early 14th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    200 m · church in Bawdrip, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Sydenham House

    Sydenham House, the manor house of the ancient manor of Sydenham in the parish of Wembdon, Somerset, England, is a grade II listed building, constructed in the early 16th century and refronted and rebuilt after 1613. In 1937, British Cellophane Ltd set up production and built extensive factories on 59 acres of land adjacent to the manor house.

    3.4 km · house in Bridgwater, Sedgemoor, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Chilton Priory

    Chilton Priory is a Grade II listed folly, later extended to become a country house prominently located on Polden Hill, overlooking Bath Road, close to Chilton Polden, Parish of Polden Wheel, Somerset. The tower was erected in 1838 for William Stradling, deputy lieutenant of Somerset and a descendant of the local Stradling family who date back to the fourteenth century.

    3.3 km · folly tower and mansion in Chilton Polden, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Church of St Francis, Stawell

    The Anglican Church of St Francis in Stawell, Somerset, England was built in the 13th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    3 km · church in Stawell, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Bawdrip

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 30 km · Cardiff (CWL), 39 km · Birmingham (BHX), 166 km
Stations
Bawdrip Halt railway station, 0 m · Cossington railway station, 1.9 km
  • London → Bawdrip
    200 km · quickest by road, 3h 50m · £22–30
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Bawdrip
    164 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £17–23
  • Luton, Luton → Bawdrip
    193 km · quickest by road, 3h 54m · £24–33
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bawdrip

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bawdrip. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    121 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    126 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    512 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    513 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    549 km

If you know how people move in Bawdrip – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Bawdrip

Bawdrip is 40 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Puritonvillage in Somerset, England, UK2.9 km
  • Woolavingtonvillage in Somerset, England2 km
  • Stawellvillage and parish in Somerset, England2.6 km
  • Cossingtonvillage and civil parish in Somerset, United Kingdom1.5 km
  • Chilton Poldenvillage and civil parish in Somerset, UK3.2 km
  • Chedzoyvillage in Somerset, England, UK2.2 km