Farmborough
Farmborough is a village and civil parish, 6 miles (9.7 km) south west of Bath in Somerset, England.
Farmborough is a village and civil parish, 6 miles (9.7 km) south west of Bath in Somerset, England. It straddles both the A39 and A368 roads. The parish has a population of 1,312.
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Worth seeing in and around Farmborough
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 Lawrence, Stanton Prior
The Anglican Church of St Lawrence in Stanton Prior, Somerset, England, has its origins in the 12th century but is mainly 15th century. The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building.
2.6 km · church in Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church of St Luke and St Andrew, Priston
The Church of St Luke and St Andrew in Priston, Somerset, England has a nave dating from the 12th century, on the site of an earlier Norman church. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.
2.9 km · church in Priston, Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church of St Leonard, Chelwood
The Church of St. Leonard is a redundant church in Chelwood, Somerset, England.
3.7 km · church in Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04St Peter's Church, Camerton Park
The Church of St Peter at Camerton Park in Camerton, Somerset, England was built in the 15th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. From 1800 to 1839 the vicar was the archaeologist John Skinner.
3.9 km · church in Camerton, Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Church of All Saints, Farmborough
The Church of All Saints is an Anglican parish church in Farmborough, Somerset, England. It was principally built in the 15th century and has been designated as a Grade II* listed building.
200 m · church in Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Church of St Peter, Marksbury
The Church of St Peter in Marksbury, Somerset, England dates from the 12th century, although most of the current fabric is from the 15th century and is a Grade II* listed building. The nave has two 2-light windows under hood moulds flanking a blocked, moulded round-headed door under a plaque dated 1627.
1.8 km · church in Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Hunstrete Lake
Hunstrete Lake is a mature lake of 5 acres. Two new lakes of 3.5 acres were constructed alongside in the 1990s.
2.4 km · lake in Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Church of St Mary the Virgin
The Anglican Church of St Mary The Virgin in Timsbury within the English county of Somerset is a Grade II* listed building. An old church on the site had fallen into disrepair by the 1820s.
2 km · church in Timsbury, Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Farmborough
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 17 km · Cardiff (CWL), 60 km · Birmingham (BHX), 133 km
- Stations
- Camerton railway station, 3.2 km
- Cardiff → Farmborough50 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £8–11
- London → Farmborough165 km · quickest by road, 3h 21m · £17–23
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Farmborough133 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £14–19
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No local-transport research exists yet for Farmborough
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 Farmborough. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextBristol — with its many attractions situated around the floating harbour and Avon Gorge, is 12 miles drive or 15 minutes train journey away, and makes an excellent day trip from Bath.
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Next door to Farmborough
Farmborough is 15 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Timsburyvillage and civil parish in Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, England1.9 km
- Marksburyvillage and civil parish in Somerset, England1.8 km
- Pristonvillage in Somerset, England, UK3.1 km
- Camertonvillage and civil parish in Somerset, England, UK3.5 km
- High Littletonvillage in Somerset, England2.8 km
- Chelwoodvillage and civil parish in Somerset, UK3.1 km