Ditcheat
Ditcheat is a village and civil parish 4.5 miles (7 km) south of Shepton Mallet, and 2.5 miles (4 km) north-west of Castle Cary, in Somerset, England.

Ditcheat is a village and civil parish 4.5 miles (7 km) south of Shepton Mallet, and 2.5 miles (4 km) north-west of Castle Cary, in Somerset, England. Besides the village, the parish has four hamlets: Wraxall, Lower Wraxall, Alhampton and Sutton.
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Worth seeing in and around Ditcheat
8 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.
- 01Church of St Peter
The Church of St Peter in Evercreech, Somerset, England, dates from the 14th century and is a Grade I listed building. The three-stage tower has set-back buttresses ascending to pinnacles, with a very tall transomed two-light bell-chamber with windows on each face The embattled parapet has quatrefoil piercing, with big corner pinnacles and smaller intermediate pinnacles.
3.2 km · parish church in Evercreech, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church of St Andrew
The Church of St Andrew in Ansford, Somerset, England, was built in the 15th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.
3.8 km · church in Ansford, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church of All Saints, East Pennard
The Church of All Saints in East Pennard, Somerset, England, dates from the 14th century. It is a grade I listed building.
3.1 km · church in East Pennard, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Church of St Mary Magdalene, Ditcheat
The Church of St Mary Magdalene is the Church of England parish church for the village of Ditcheat, Somerset, England. There has been a church on the site since 824, and the present building owes much of its grandeur to the Abbots of Glastonbury.
200 m · church in Ditcheat, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05The Abbey, Ditcheat
The Abbey, Ditcheat is a large house at Ditcheat in Somerset. Originally a rectory, now converted into a house, the Grade II* listed building dates from the 15th century.
400 m · building in Ditcheat, England · Wikipedia - 06Alhampton Mission Church
Alhampton Mission Church is a Church of England chapel in Alhampton, Somerset, England. The tin tabernacle was erected in 1892 and now forms part of the Fosse Trinity Benefice.
1.9 km · church in Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Church of St Mary and St John
The Anglican Church Of St Mary and St John in Lamyatt, within the English county of Somerset, was built in the 13th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.
3.5 km · church in Lamyatt, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Church of St Thomas à Becket
The Anglican Church of St Thomas à Becket in Pylle, Somerset, England, was built in the 15th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.
2.7 km · church in Pylle, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ditcheat
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 31 km · Cardiff (CWL), 64 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 149 km
- Stations
- Castle Cary railway station, 3.1 km
- Cardiff → Ditcheat60 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · £10–14
- London → Ditcheat174 km · quickest by road, 3h 24m · £18–24
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Ditcheat159 km · quickest by road, 3h 23m · £17–22
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No local-transport research exists yet for Ditcheat
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 Ditcheat. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Ditcheat
Ditcheat is 37 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Evercreechvillage and parish in Somerset, England, UK2.8 km
- Lamyattvillage and parish in Somerset, England.3.1 km
- Milton Clevedonvillage in Somerset, England, UK4 km
- Ansfordvillage and civil parish in Somerset, United Kingdom3.9 km
- Pyllevillage in Somerset, England, UK2.8 km
- Alhamptonhamlet in Somerset, England, UK1.6 km