Durston

Worth seeing in and around Durston

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
   Bridgwater and Taunton Canal

   The Bridgwater and Taunton Canal is a canal in the south-west of England between Bridgwater and Taunton, opened in 1827 and linking the River Tone to the River Parrett. There were a number of abortive schemes to link the Bristol Channel to the English Channel by waterway in the 18th and early 19th centuries.

   1.8 km · Canal in south-west England · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Church of St Bartholomew, Lyng

   The Church of St Bartholomew at East Lyng in the parish of Lyng, Somerset, England dates from the 14th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The Anglican church is dedicated to St Bartholomew, and is thought to have been built by the monks who were displaced from Athelney Abbey when it was dissolved by King Henry VIII of England in 1539.

   3.8 km · church in East Lyng, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   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.

   3.2 km · church in West Monkton, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   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.

   3.8 km · church in Creech St Michael, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Church of St Peter & St Paul, North Curry

   The Church of St Peter & St Paul in North Curry, Somerset, England, is nicknamed ‘The Cathedral of the Moors’. It dates from the 14th century and has been designated a Grade I listed building.

   3.8 km · church in North Curry, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Maunsel House

   Maunsel House in the English county of Somerset was built in the late 14th or early 15th century. The house stands south of the hamlet of North Newton, in the parish of North Petherton.

   1.8 km · building in North Petherton, Sedgemoor, England, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Church of St Peter, North Newton

   The Anglican Church of St Peter in North Newton within the English county of Somerset has a tower believed to date from Saxon times. It is a Grade II* listed building.

   2.7 km · church in North Newton, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Church of St Giles

   The Norman Anglican Church of St Giles in Thurloxton dates from the 14th century but is predominantly from the 15th century with 19th-century restoration including the addition of the north aisle in 1868. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building.

   2.8 km · church in Thurloxton, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Durston

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Bristol (BRS), 42 km · Cardiff (CWL), 45 km · Birmingham (BHX), 178 km

• Bristol → Durston

  54 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £6–8
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• Cardiff → Durston

  49 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £11–15
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• London → Durston

  5 km · quickest by road, 26 min · £0.5
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