Monksilver
Monksilver is a village 3 miles (5 km) west of the town of Williton in Somerset, England, on the eastern flank of the Brendon Hills and the border of the Exmoor National Park.
Monksilver is a village 3 miles (5 km) west of the town of Williton in Somerset, England, on the eastern flank of the Brendon Hills and the border of the Exmoor National Park. The Coleridge Way footpath passes through the village.
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Worth seeing in and around Monksilver
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.
- 01Cleeve Abbey
Cleeve Abbey is a medieval monastery located near the Washford River and village of Washford, in the English county of Somerset. It is a Grade I listed building and has been scheduled as an ancient monument.
3.7 km · abbey · Wikipedia - 02Tropiquaria
Tropiquaria Zoo is a small tropical house and zoo in Somerset, England. It is located at Washford Cross, 16 miles from Taunton and 9 miles from Minehead.
3.5 km · zoo in West Somerset, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Church of St Mary
The Church of St Mary in Stogumber, Somerset, England dates from the late 13th century. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.
2.6 km · church in Stogumber, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Church of All Saints, Monksilver
The Church of All Saints in Monksilver, Somerset, England dates from the 12th century and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.
400 m · church in West Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Church of St Martin, Elworthy
The Church of St Martin in Elworthy, Somerset, England, is dedicated to St Martin of Tours. It dates from the 13th century and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
3 km · church in West Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Church of St Mary the Virgin, Nettlecombe
The Church of St Mary the Virgin in Nettlecombe, Somerset, England dates from the 13th and 14th centuries, and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The church which lies within the grounds of Nettlecombe Court, which was built as a large country manor house, becoming a girls' boarding school in the early 1960s and since 1967 has been the Leonard Wills Field Centre run by the Field Studies Council.
1.6 km · church in West Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Church of St George
The Anglican Church of St George in Sampford Brett, Somerset, England was built around 1300. It is a Grade II* listed building.
2.9 km · church in Sampford Brett, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Church of St Peter
The Anglican Church of St Peter in Williton in the English county of Somerset is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. The earliest church on the site may have been the private chapel of a Saxon royal manor.
2.9 km · church in Williton, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Orchard Wyndham
Orchard Wyndham is a historic manor near Williton in Somerset, centred on the synonymous grade I listed manor house of Orchard Wyndham that was situated historically in the parish of Watchet and about two miles south of the parish church of St Decuman's, Watchet. Parts of the manor house are medieval.
2.2 km · Grade I listed building in West Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Combe Sydenham
Combe Sydenham is an historic manor in Somerset, England. The 15th-century manor house, called Combe Sydenham House is in the parish of Stogumber, Somerset and is situated just within the boundary of Exmoor National Park.
1.1 km · Grade I listed building in West Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Monksilver
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 29 km · Bristol (BRS), 51 km · Birmingham (BHX), 183 km
- Stations
- Stogumber railway station, 3.9 km
- Bristol → Monksilver63 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £9–12
- London → Monksilver227 km · quickest by road, 4h 28m · £24–32
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Monksilver180 km · quickest by road, 3h 35m · £21–27
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Monksilver
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 Monksilver. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Monksilver – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Monksilver
Monksilver is 40 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Willitontown and civil parish in Somerset, England, UK3.8 km
- Sampford Brettvillage and civil parish in Somerset, United Kingdom2.9 km
- Stogumbervillage and civil parish in Somerset, UK2.3 km
- Nettlecombevillage and civil parish in Somerset, England, United Kingdom1.5 km
- Elworthyvillage and civil parish in Somerset, England3.1 km
- Roadwatervillage in Somerset, United Kingdom3.8 km