--- title: "Lydeard St Lawrence – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Lydeard St Lawrence, United Kingdom: Lydeard St Lawrence or St Lawrence Lydiard is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated 7 miles (11.3…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lydeard-st-lawrence" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lydeard-st-lawrence.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/D-6-73-141-124_In_der_Kirche_St_Laurentius_in_Gabolshausen_3.jpg/1920px-D-6-73-141-124_In_der_Kirche_St_Laurentius_in_Gabolshausen_3.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Village and civil parish in Somerset, England · United Kingdom # 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](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/D-6-73-141-124_In_der_Kirche_St_Laurentius_in_Gabolshausen_3.jpg/1920px-D-6-73-141-124_In_der_Kirche_St_Laurentius_in_Gabolshausen_3.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Lydeard St Lawrence · Stephan van Helden The place 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydeard_St_Lawrence), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## 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. 1. Church 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Lawrence%27s_Church,_Lydeard_St_Lawrence) 2. Church 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_Peter_%26_St_Paul,_Combe_Florey) 3. Church 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_Mary,_Brompton_Ralph) 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. Go there ## 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 Lawrence 61 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · £8–11 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-lydeard-st-lawrence) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Lydeard+St+Lawrence) - London → Lydeard St Lawrence 222 km · quickest by road, 3h 37m · £23–31 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-lydeard-st-lawrence) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Lydeard+St+Lawrence) - Birmingham, West Midlands → Lydeard St Lawrence 184 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £21–28 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/birmingham-west-midlands-to-lydeard-st-lawrence) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Birmingham%2C+West+Midlands&to=Lydeard+St+Lawrence) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Lydeard%20St%20Lawrence) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## 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. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in Within 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. From [Wikivoyage: West Country](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/West_Country), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 100 km 2. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 144 km 3. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 497 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 515 km 5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 550 km If you know how people move in Lydeard St Lawrence – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Clydeard-st-lawrence&title=Lydeard+St+Lawrence&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Flydeard-st-lawrence), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Lydeard St Lawrence Lydeard St Lawrence is 44 km from [Cardiff](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cardiff), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Combe Florey](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/combe-florey) village in Somerset, England, UK 3.2 km - [Tolland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tolland) village and civil parish in Taunton Deane, Somerset, England 2 km - [Brompton Ralph](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/brompton-ralph) village and civil parish in Somerset, United Kingdom 4 km - [Willett](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/willett) hamlet in Somerset, England 2.3 km [The place page for Lydeard St Lawrence](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/lydeard-st-lawrence) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lydeard-st-lawrence, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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