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Burrowbridge

Burrowbridge is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated on the River Parrett and the A361 road on the edge of the Somerset Levels.

Burrowbridge
Burrowbridge · Julie Anne Workman
The place

Burrowbridge is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated on the River Parrett and the A361 road on the edge of the Somerset Levels. It is located 5 miles (8.0 km) southeast of Bridgwater, and has a population of 508.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Burrowbridge

6 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
    Burrow Mump

    Burrow Mump is a hill and historic site overlooking Southlake Moor in the village of Burrowbridge within the English county of Somerset. It is a scheduled monument, with a never completed church on top of the hill a Grade II listed building.

    200 m · hill and castle in Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Bartholomew, Lyng

    The Church of St Bartholomew at East Lyng in the parish of Lyng, Somerset, England dates from the 14th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The Anglican church is dedicated to St Bartholomew, and is thought to have been built by the monks who were displaced from Athelney Abbey when it was dissolved by King Henry VIII of England in 1539.

    3 km · church in East Lyng, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Gregory, Stoke St Gregory

    The Church of St Gregory Stoke St Gregory, is a Church of England parish church in Somerset, England. Its parish is part of the Athelney Benefice, along with the parishes of St Michael, Burrowbridge, St Bartholomew, Lyng and SS Peter and Paul, North Curry.

    3.5 km · church in Stoke St Gregory, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Michael, Othery

    The Church of St Michael in Othery, Somerset, England dates back to the 12th century. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.

    2.7 km · church in Othery, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of the Holy Cross, Middlezoy

    The Church of the Holy Cross in Middlezoy, Somerset, England dates from the 13th century and has been designated as a grade I listed building. William of Bitton II was the rector by 20 April 1263.

    3.1 km · church in Middlezoy, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum

    The Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum of Steam Power and Land Drainage is a small industrial heritage museum dedicated to steam powered machinery at Westonzoyland in the English county of Somerset. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    2.8 km · industrial heritage museum in 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 Burrowbridge

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 37 km · Cardiff (CWL), 47 km · Birmingham (BHX), 174 km
  • Cardiff → Burrowbridge
    49 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £11–15
  • London → Burrowbridge
    200 km · quickest by road, 3h 48m · £20–27
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Burrowbridge
    172 km · quickest by road, 3h 14m · £18–24
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Burrowbridge

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 Burrowbridge. 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

    121 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    123 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    518 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    522 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    558 km

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

Around it

Next door to Burrowbridge

Burrowbridge is 48 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Middlezoyvillage in Somerset, England, UK2.6 km
  • Lyngvillage and civil parish in Somerset, UK3.4 km
  • Otheryvillage in Somerset, England, UK2.9 km
  • Westonzoylandvillage in Somerset, England, UK3.9 km
  • Stoke St Gregoryvillage in Somerset, England, UK3.3 km
  • Athelneyvillage in Somerset, England, UK1.9 km