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Beckington

Beckington is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, across the River Frome from Lullington about three miles north of Frome.

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The place

Beckington is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, across the River Frome from Lullington about three miles north of Frome. According to the 2011 census the parish, which includes the hamlets of Rudge and Standerwick, has a population of 983.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Beckington

9 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
    Beckington Castle

    Beckington Castle is a historic house in the village of Beckington, Somerset, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    400 m · house in Beckington, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of All Saints, Lullington

    The Church of All Saints is a Church of England parish church in Lullington, Somerset, England.

    1.9 km · church in Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Lawrence, Rode

    The Church of St Lawrence in Rode, Somerset, England, dates from the late 14th and early 15th century. It was restored in 1874 by Charles Edward Davis and is a Grade I listed building.

    1.7 km · church in Rode, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St George, Beckington

    The Church of St George is a medieval Church of England parish church in Beckington, Somerset, England. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.

    200 m · church in Beckington, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Orchardleigh Lake

    Orchardleigh Lake is an 11.23-hectare artificial lake in the grounds of the Orchardleigh Estate, just north of Frome, Somerset, England. It was formed by damming a tributary of the River Frome.

    2.5 km · lake in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Mary, Berkley

    The Church of St Mary is a Church of England parish church in Berkley, Somerset. It is a Grade II* listed building built in 1751.

    2.5 km · church in Berkley, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St Mary

    The Anglican Church of St Mary in Laverton, Lullington, Somerset, England was built in the 11th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    2.7 km · church in Laverton, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Christ Church, Rode

    The Anglican Church of St Peter in Rode, within the English county of Somerset, dates from 1824. It is a redundant church and a Grade II* listed building.

    2.4 km · church in Rode, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Church of St Mary, Orchardleigh

    The Church of St Mary is a 13th-century church in the grounds of the Orchardleigh Estate in Somerset, England.

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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Beckington

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 33 km · Cardiff (CWL), 75 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 129 km
  • Cardiff → Beckington
    66 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £9–13
  • London → Beckington
    152 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · £16–22
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Beckington
    138 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £16–21
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Beckington

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 Beckington. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBrittany Ferries provide vehicle and foot passenger services to and from northern Spain, the Normandy ports of Caen and Cherbourg, and St.
  • Get inCondor Ferries provide services normally from Poole to the Channel Islands and St Malo.
  • Get aroundMinibuses , Paddock Wood, Bradley Road, BA12 7JY.

From Wikivoyage: Warminster, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    94 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    166 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    515 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    542 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    547 km

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

Around it

Next door to Beckington

Beckington is 30 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Lullingtonvillage and civil parish in Somerset, England, UK1.8 km
  • Rodevillage and civil parish in Mendip, Somerset, England2.2 km
  • Berkleyvillage and civil parish in Somerset, UK2.7 km
  • Tellisfordvillage and civil parish in Somerset, England, UK3.9 km
  • Rudgevillage in Somerset, England, UK2.5 km