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Kilmersdon

Kilmersdon is a village and civil parish on the north eastern slopes of the Mendip Hills in Somerset between the towns of Radstock and Frome.

Kilmersdon
Kilmersdon · Gillett's Crossing from Bristol, United Kingdom
The place

Kilmersdon is a village and civil parish on the north eastern slopes of the Mendip Hills in Somerset between the towns of Radstock and Frome. It is located on the B3139 between Wells and Trowbridge in Wiltshire. The settlement is recorded in William I's Domesday Book and dates back at least 1,000 years; though the core of the village dates from the mid nineteenth century. The parish includes the hamlets of

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kilmersdon

10 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
    St Margaret's Church, Babington

    The Church of St Margaret is a Grade I listed building, adjacent to Babington House in Babington, Somerset, England. The church is owned and operated by the St Margaret's, Babington, Charitable Trust, which is completely independent of the management of Babington House.

    1.7 km · church in Babington, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Peter and St Paul, Kilmersdon

    The Anglican Church of St Peter and St Paul in Kilmersdon, Somerset, England, dates back to the Norman period, though much of the current structure was built during the 15th and 16th centuries and restored in the Victorian era. It is a Grade I listed building.

    100 m · church in Kilmersdon, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Vigor, Stratton-on-the-Fosse

    The Anglican Church of St Vigor in Stratton-on-the-Fosse, Somerset, England, dates from the 12th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. Saint Vigor was a French bishop and Christian missionary.

    3.9 km · church in Stratton-on-the-Fosse, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Mary, Hemington

    St. Mary's Hemington is an Anglican church in Hemington, Somerset, England.

    3.2 km · church in Hemington, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Edmund's Church, Vobster

    St Edmund's Church is a former Church of England church in Vobster, Somerset, England. It was built between 1845 and 1848 to the designs of Benjamin Ferrey and closed as a place of worship in 1981.

    3.3 km · church in Vobster, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St. Andrew, Holcombe

    The Church of St Andrew near Holcombe, Somerset, England has late Saxon-early Norman origins and was rebuilt in the 15th/16th centuries. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    3.1 km · church in Holcombe, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St James the Less

    The Anglican Church of St James The Less in Foxcote, within the English county of Somerset, was rebuilt in the early 18th century incorporating a 15th-century bell turret. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.7 km · church in Foxcote, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Holy Trinity Church, Clandown

    Holy Trinity Church is a former Church of England church in Clandown, Somerset, England. Designed by George Phillips Manners, it was built in 1846–47 and closed in 1983.

    4 km · church in Clandown, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Ammerdown House

    Ammerdown House in Kilmersdon, Somerset, England, was built in 1788. It has been designated as Grade I listed building.

    1.6 km · Grade I listed country house in Kilmersdon, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Radstock Museum

    Radstock Museum in Radstock, Somerset, England has a range of exhibits which offer an insight into North Somerset life since the nineteenth century.

    2.7 km · museum in Radstock, Somerset, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Kilmersdon

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 23 km · Cardiff (CWL), 64 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 139 km
Stations
Radstock North railway station, 2.6 km
  • Cardiff → Kilmersdon
    57 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £9–12
  • London → Kilmersdon
    163 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · £18–23
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Kilmersdon
    140 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · £15–20
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kilmersdon

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 Kilmersdon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Bath, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    102 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    156 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    511 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    538 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    547 km

If you know how people move in Kilmersdon – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Kilmersdon

Kilmersdon is 23 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Midsomer Nortontown in Somerset, England3.4 km
  • Colefordvillage in Somerset, England, UK3 km
  • Radstocktown in Somerset, England2.6 km
  • Holcombevillage and civil parish in Somerset, United Kingdom3.6 km
  • Hemingtonvillage and civil parish in Somerset, UK3.3 km
  • Westfieldcivil parish and suburban area in Somerset, England2.3 km