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Creech St Michael

Creech St Michael is a village and civil parish in Somerset, three miles (5 km) east of Taunton.

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The place

Creech St Michael is a village and civil parish in Somerset, three miles (5 km) east of Taunton. The parish straddles the M5 motorway and includes several scattered settlements. The village of Creech St Michael and the hamlets of Charlton, Creech Heathfield, and Ham lie east of the motorway. The hamlets of Adsborough, Coombe, Langaller, and Walford lie west of the motorway. The parish has a population of 2,416.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Creech St Michael

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
    Church of St Augustine, West Monkton

    The Church of St Augustine in West Monkton, Somerset, England, dates from the 13th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The parish church has an 88 feet tower, of four stories, with no pinnacles or fancy tracery on the windows, giving the tower a slender, austere look compared to the medieval Somerset towers of churches in nearby Taunton, for example.

    2.9 km · church in West Monkton, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St George

    The Church of St George in Ruishton, Somerset, England was built in the 14th to 16th centuries and has been designated as a grade I listed building. The south chapel was built in the 14th and 15th centuries.

    1 km · church in Ruishton, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Michael, Creech St Michael

    The Church of St Michael, which stands next to the River Tone in Creech St Michael, Somerset, England dates from the 13th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The church came into the ownership of Montacute Priory in 1362.

    500 m · church in Creech St Michael, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of the Holy Cross, Thornfalcon

    The Church of the Holy Cross in Thornfalcon, Somerset, England dates from the 14th century and was restored in 1882 by Benjamin Ferrey. It has been designated as a grade I listed building.

    2.1 km · church in Thornfalcon, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Mary

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

    3.4 km · church in Stoke St Mary, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Roman Catholic Church of St Teresa of Lisieux

    The Roman Catholic Church of St Teresa of Lisieux in Taunton, Somerset, England, dates from 1958–1959. It is the only known church design of Eric Francis, a Chepstow-born architect who worked mainly in Monmouthshire and the South-West of England.

    3.6 km · church in Taunton, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Creech St Michael

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 46 km · Cardiff (CWL), 46 km · Birmingham (BHX), 182 km
  • Bristol → Creech St Michael
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £7–9
  • Cardiff → Creech St Michael
    52 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £11–15
  • London → Creech St Michael
    210 km · quickest by road, 3h 53m · £22–29
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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 Creech St Michael. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inWithin the West Country itself are two seaports offering international ferry services: Plymouth receives ferries from Roscoff and St Malo in France, and Santander in Spain, while Poole receives ferries from Cherbourg and St Malo in France, plus Santander and the Channel Islands.

From Wikivoyage: West Country, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.

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

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    115 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    127 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    513 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    525 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    560 km

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Around it

Next door to Creech St Michael

Creech St Michael is 51 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.