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Maperton

Maperton is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated 3 miles (4.8 km) south west of Wincanton in the South Somerset district.

The place

Maperton is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated 3 miles (4.8 km) south west of Wincanton in the South Somerset district. The village has a population of 140. However, this small number includes Elliscombe House care home which alone has an average of 40 residents.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Maperton

8 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
    North Cadbury Court

    North Cadbury Court in North Cadbury, Somerset, England is a country house built around 1580–1610, by Sir Francis Hastings. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.

    4 km · Grade I listed country house in North Cadbury, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Mary

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

    3.1 km · church in Compton Pauncefoot, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Michael

    The Anglican Church of St Michael in Blackford, Somerset, England was built in the 11th or 12th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    1.7 km · church in Blackford, South Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Peter and St Paul

    The Anglican Church of St Peter and St Paul in Charlton Horethorne, Somerset, England was built in the 12th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.6 km · church in Charlton Horethorne, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Michael, North Cadbury

    The Church of St Michael in North Cadbury, Somerset, England, dates from 1417, although the tower was built a few years earlier. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.

    3.9 km · church in South Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St John the Baptist, Horsington

    The Anglican Church of St John the Baptist in Horsington, Somerset, England was built in the 15th century and rebuilt between 1885 and 1887. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    4 km · church in Horsington, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St John the Baptist

    The Anglican Church of St John the Baptist in North Cheriton, Somerset, England was built in the 14th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    1.4 km · church in North Cheriton, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church of St Nicholas

    The Anglican Church of St Nicholas in Bratton Seymour, Somerset, England, was built in the 13th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.6 km · church in Bratton Seymour, 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 Maperton

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 42 km · Cardiff (CWL), 73 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 148 km
Stations
Wincanton railway station, 4 km
  • Bristol → Maperton
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £6–7
  • Cardiff → Maperton
    70 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £13–18
  • London → Maperton
    171 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · £17–23
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Maperton

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 Maperton. 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

    90 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    155 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    535 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    548 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    565 km

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

Around it

Next door to Maperton

Maperton is 47 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Charlton Horethornevillage and civil parish in Somerset, United Kingdom3.2 km
  • Yarlingtonvillage and civil parish in Somerset, United Kingdom3.6 km
  • North Cheritonvillage in Somerset, England, UK2.1 km
  • Holtonvillage and civil parish in Somerset, United Kingdom1.2 km
  • Bratton Seymourvillage and civil parish in Somerset, United Kingdom3.2 km
  • Horsingtonvillage and civil parish in Somerset, England3.8 km