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Binegar

Binegar is a small village and civil parish in Somerset, England.

Binegar
Binegar · U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Milton Hamilton
The place

Binegar is a small village and civil parish in Somerset, England. It is located on the A37, 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Wells, between Shepton Mallet and Chilcompton. Its population in 2011 was 313. Binegar and Gurney Slade on the opposite side of the A37 are effectively a single village and share a sign on the main road. In Gurney Slade, the quarry and houses on the north side of Tape Lane are in Binegar parish whilst the south side is in Ashwick parish. In Binegar, some houses on the south side of Station Road are in Ashwick parish and some on the north side of the village are in Emborough parish.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Binegar

4 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
    Church of St James, Ashwick

    The Church of St James in Ashwick, Somerset, England, is a church dating from 1881. It is a Grade I listed building, adjacent to Ashwick Court.

    2.3 km · church in Ashwick, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Emborough

    The Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Emborough, Somerset, England is medieval in origin but underwent extensive renovation in the 18th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

    1.9 km · church in Emborough, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of the Holy Trinity

    The Anglican Church of the Holy Trinity, Binegar, Somerset, England is Norman but has been rebuilt and restored several times since. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    100 m · church in Binegar, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Ashwick Court

    Ashwick Court is Grade II listed house on Heckley Lane northwest of Ashwick, in Mendip district, eastern Somerset, England, adjacent to the Church of St James. It is a country house, dating from the late 17th century and became a listed building on 2 June 1961.

    2.3 km · building in Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Binegar

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 19 km · Cardiff (CWL), 58 km · Birmingham (BHX), 145 km
Stations
Chilcompton railway station, 3.4 km · Binegar railway station, 300 m · Masbury railway station, 2.6 km
  • Cardiff → Binegar
    51 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £9–12
  • London → Binegar
    171 km · quickest by road, 3h 27m · £18–24
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Binegar
    145 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £15–20
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Binegar

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 Binegar. 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
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    107 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    148 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    511 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    532 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    547 km

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Around it

Next door to Binegar

Binegar is 24 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.