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Village and civil parish in Somerset, England · United Kingdom

Downhead

Downhead is a village and civil parish just south of Leigh-on-Mendip and 5 miles (8 km) north east of Shepton Mallet, in the county of Somerset, England.

The place

Downhead is a village and civil parish just south of Leigh-on-Mendip and 5 miles (8 km) north east of Shepton Mallet, in the county of Somerset, England. The parish includes the hamlet of Tadhill.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Downhead

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 27 km · Cardiff (CWL), 66 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 141 km
  • Cardiff → Downhead
    64 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £13–17
  • London → Downhead
    164 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · £17–23
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Downhead
    146 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · £16–21
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Downhead

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 Downhead. 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

    155 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    517 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    540 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    553 km

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Next door to Downhead

Downhead is 29 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.