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Lopen

Lopen is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated 8 miles (12.9 km) west of Yeovil.

Lopen
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The place

Lopen is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated 8 miles (12.9 km) west of Yeovil. The village has a population of 260 people.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Lopen

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
    Church of St Mary, Seavington St Mary

    The Church of St Mary in Seavington St Mary, Somerset, England, dates from the 15th century and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. The former Anglican parish Church of St Mary has 13th-century origins, but the current building is largely from the late 15th century, with restoration around 1880.

    2.3 km · church in South Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St George, Hinton St George

    The Church of St George in Hinton St George, Somerset, England includes 13th-century work by masons of Wells Cathedral, and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The vestry and north chapel of 1814 are said to be by James Wyatt, however it is more likely to be by Jeffry Wyatt,.

    1.9 km · church in Hinton St George, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Michael, Shepton Beauchamp

    The Church of St Michael in Shepton Beauchamp, Somerset, England is built of local hamstone, and has 13th-century origins, although it has been extensively changed since then, with major renovation in 1865 by George Edmund Street. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.

    3.5 km · church in Shepton Beauchamp, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of All Saints

    The Anglican Church of All Saints in Merriott, Somerset, England was built in the 13th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    2.4 km · church in Merriott, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Peter and St Paul, South Petherton

    The Church of St Peter and St Paul is the Church of England parish church for the village of South Petherton, Somerset, England. The present church is a large and imposing cruciform-shaped structure constructed on the site of an earlier Saxon Minster, with the majority of the building dating from the 13th to 15th centuries; consequently, the building is Grade I listed.

    2.4 km · church in South Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Nicholas

    The Anglican Church of St Nicholas in Dinnington, Somerset, England was built in the 15th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    2.8 km · church in Dinnington, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Crewkerne Castle

    Crewkerne Castle was possibly a Norman motte and bailey castle on a mound that is situated north-west of the town of Crewkerne in Somerset, England.

    3.9 km · castle in the UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Hinton House

    Hinton House is a large country house near Hinton St George in Somerset, England.

    2.2 km · country house in Hinton St George, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Church of St Michael

    The Anglican Church of St Michael in Seavington St Michael, Somerset, England was built in the 12th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    1.6 km · church in Seavington St Michael, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Coke Memorial Methodist Church

    Coke Memorial Methodist Church is a former Methodist church in South Petherton, Somerset, England. Designed by Alexander Lauder, it was built in 1881-82 and has been a Grade II listed building since 1988.

    2.6 km · protestant church building in South Petherton, South Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Lopen

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 51 km · Cardiff (CWL), 64 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 175 km
  • Bristol → Lopen
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £7–9
  • Cardiff → Lopen
    66 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £13–17
  • London → Lopen
    198 km · quickest by road, 3h 31m · £20–26
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Lopen

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 Lopen. 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

    110 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    132 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    532 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    539 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    575 km

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

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