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Crewkerne

Crewkerne is a town and electoral ward in south Somerset, England, 9 miles (14 km) southwest of Yeovil and 7 miles (11 km) east of Chard.

Crewkerne
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The place

Crewkerne is a town and electoral ward in south Somerset, England, 9 miles (14 km) southwest of Yeovil and 7 miles (11 km) east of Chard. A separate civil parish of West Crewkerne includes the hamlets of Clapton, Coombe, Woolminstone and Henley, and borders the county of Dorset to the south. The town is on the main headwater of the River Parrett, the A30 road and the West of England railway line.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Crewkerne

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
    Church of St George, Hinton St George

    The Church of St George in Hinton St George, Somerset, England includes 13th-century work by masons of Wells Cathedral, and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The vestry and north chapel of 1814 are said to be by James Wyatt, however it is more likely to be by Jeffry Wyatt,.

    4.2 km · church in Hinton St George, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of All Saints

    The Anglican Church of All Saints in Merriott, Somerset, England was built in the 13th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.4 km · church in Merriott, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Martin, North Perrott

    The Church of St Martin in North Perrott, Somerset, England, dates from the 12th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The current church which is near the River Parrett, was built on the site of an earlier church and including some of the fabric, in the 16th century, probably by Henry Daubeney, 1st Earl of Bridgewater.

    2.8 km · church in North Perrott, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Wayford Manor House

    Wayford Manor House is a country house with a garden in Britain, situated in Wayford, Somerset, England. It has been designated a Grade I listed building.

    4.9 km · Grade I listed manor house in Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Michael

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

    4.9 km · church in Wayford, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Clapton Mill

    Clapton Mill is a former watermill located in the hamlet of Clapton, West Crewkerne, Somerset, England. The existing mill dates back to the 18th century, but was extensively rebuilt in 1864.

    4.4 km · aqueduct in West Crewkerne, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St John

    St John's Church is a Church of England church in Seaborough, Dorset, England. Much of the church dates to a rebuild of 1882 and it now forms part of the Beaminster Area Team Ministry.

    3.8 km · church building in Seaborough, West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church of St Mary

    St Mary's Church is a Church of England parish church in Mosterton, Dorset, England. The church was designed by Edmund Pearce and built in 1832–33 to replace an earlier building.

    4.1 km · church building in Mosterton, West Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    St Mary's Church, Drimpton

    St. Mary's Church is a Church of England church in Drimpton, Dorset, England.

    5.1 km · church in Drimpton, Dorset, England · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Church of St Nicholas

    The Anglican Church of St Nicholas in Dinnington, Somerset, England was built in the 15th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    5.3 km · church in Dinnington, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Crewkerne

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 56 km · Cardiff (CWL), 69 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 175 km
Stations
Crewkerne railway station, 1.2 km
  • Bristol → Crewkerne
    65 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £7–10
  • Cardiff → Crewkerne
    72 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £14–18
  • London → Crewkerne
    199 km · quickest by road, 3h 37m · £20–27
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Crewkerne

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 Crewkerne. 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

    136 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    536 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    545 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    581 km

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