Lydeard St Lawrence
Lydeard St Lawrence or St Lawrence Lydiard is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated 7 miles (11.3 km) north west of Taunton.
Lydeard St Lawrence or St Lawrence Lydiard is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated 7 miles (11.3 km) north west of Taunton. The village has a population of 506. The parish includes the hamlets of Westowe, Hoccombe and Pyleigh, with its 16th century manor house.
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Worth seeing in and around Lydeard St Lawrence
3 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, Lydeard St Lawrence
The Anglican Church of St Lawrence in Lydeard St Lawrence, Somerset, England dates from 1350 and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The parish is part of the benefice of Bishops Lydeard with Lydeard St Lawrence, Bagborough, Combe Florey and Cothelstone within the archdeaconry of Taunton.
500 m · church in Lydeard St Lawrence, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church of St Peter & St Paul
The Church of St Peter & St Paul in Combe Florey, Somerset, England has some remains from the 13th century but is mostly from the 15th century and is designated as a Grade I listed building. The church is built of Old Red Sandstone with Hamstone around the windows and doorways.
2.9 km · church in Combe Florey, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church of St Mary
The Anglican Church of St Mary in Brompton Ralph, Somerset, England was built in the 15th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.
4 km · church in Brompton Ralph, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Lydeard St Lawrence
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 35 km · Bristol (BRS), 50 km · Birmingham (BHX), 184 km
- Stations
- Crowcombe Heathfield railway station, 2.2 km
- Bristol → Lydeard St Lawrence61 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · £8–11
- London → Lydeard St Lawrence222 km · quickest by road, 3h 37m · £23–31
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Lydeard St Lawrence184 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £21–28
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No local-transport research exists yet for Lydeard St Lawrence
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 Lydeard St Lawrence. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inWithin the West Country itself are two seaports offering international ferry services: Plymouth receives ferries from Roscoff and St Malo in France, and Santander in Spain, while Poole receives ferries from Cherbourg and St Malo in France, plus Santander and the Channel Islands.
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Next door to Lydeard St Lawrence
Lydeard St Lawrence is 44 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Combe Floreyvillage in Somerset, England, UK3.2 km
- Tollandvillage and civil parish in Taunton Deane, Somerset, England2 km
- Brompton Ralphvillage and civil parish in Somerset, United Kingdom4 km
- Willetthamlet in Somerset, England2.3 km