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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
Ditcheat · Mike Peel
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Church 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
  2. 02
    Church 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
  3. 03
    Church 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
  4. 04
    Church 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
  5. 05
    The 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
  6. 06
    Alhampton 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
  7. 07
    Church 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
  8. 08
    Church 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 → Ditcheat
    60 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · £10–14
  • London → Ditcheat
    174 km · quickest by road, 3h 24m · £18–24
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Ditcheat
    159 km · quickest by road, 3h 23m · £17–22
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Not yet researched

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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    99 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    149 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    524 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    539 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 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