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Lympsham

Lympsham is a village and civil parish six miles west of Axbridge and six miles south-east of Weston-super-Mare, close to the River Axe in Somerset, England.

The place

Lympsham is a village and civil parish six miles west of Axbridge and six miles south-east of Weston-super-Mare, close to the River Axe in Somerset, England. The parish includes the hamlet of Wick where Wick Farmhouse dates from the mid 18th century.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Lympsham

7 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
    Brent Knoll

    Brent Knoll is a 137-metre-high hill on the Somerset Levels, in Somerset, England. It is located roughly halfway between Weston-super-Mare and Bridgwater, 2.5 miles from the Bristol Channel coast at Burnham-on-Sea.

    3.6 km · hill on the Somerset Levels, in Somerset, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Brean Leisure Park

    Brean Leisure Park also known as Brean Theme Park, is an amusement park in the coastal resort of Brean, near Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, England. The park covers an area of 200 acres.

    3.8 km · amusement park in the coastal resort of Brean, near Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Christopher, Lympsham

    The Church of St Christopher in Lympsham, Somerset, England dates from the 15th century, and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. It is known that Bartholomew de England was appointed rector at Lympsham in 1274, although the parish had been given by Ine of Wessex to Glastonbury Abbey in 690 remaining part of the Abbey estates until the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539.

    400 m · church in Lympsham, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Mary, East Brent

    The Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin is a Church of England parish church in East Brent, Somerset, England. It was built in the 15th century is a Grade I listed building.

    2.8 km · church in East Brent, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Michael, Brent Knoll

    The Church of St Michael at Brent Knoll, Somerset, England dates from the 11th century but has undergone several extensions and renovations since then. It has been designated as a grade I listed building.

    3.8 km · church in Brent Knoll, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Peter & St Paul, Bleadon

    The Church of St Peter and St Paul dominates the village of Bleadon, Somerset, England. It was built in the 14th century, being restored and the chancel shortened in the mid 19th century.

    2.5 km · church in Bleadon, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Bleadon Hill

    Bleadon Hill is a 13.52 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest just north of the village of Bleadon, North Somerset, notified in 1999. The site is a Geological Conservation Review site, as it shows a low ridge of calcite-cemented Pleistocene sand and gravel on its southern side.

    3.3 km · geological Site of Special Scientific Interest just north of the village of Bleadon, North Somerset · Wikipedia

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Getting to Lympsham

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 20 km · Cardiff (CWL), 30 km · Birmingham (BHX), 154 km
  • London → Lympsham
    198 km · quickest by road, 3h 45m · £21–28
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Lympsham
    152 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £16–21
  • Luton, Luton → Lympsham
    187 km · quickest by road, 3h 49m · £23–31
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Lympsham

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 Lympsham. 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
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    120 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    133 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    498 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    504 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    534 km

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

Around it

Next door to Lympsham

Lympsham is 27 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • East Brentvillage in Somerset, England2.8 km
  • Bleadonvillage in Somerset, England, UK2.6 km