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Nettlecombe, Somerset

Nettlecombe is a civil parish in the English county of Somerset.

The place

Nettlecombe is a civil parish in the English county of Somerset. The parish covers a rural area below the Brendon Hills, comprising the small hamlets of Beggearn Huish, Torre, Woodford, and Yarde, together with isolated individual farms and homes. The parish population at the 2021 census was 426.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Nettlecombe, Somerset

9 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
    Cleeve 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.

    2.8 km · abbey · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church 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.

    1.6 km · church in West Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church 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.

    3.8 km · church in West Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church 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.

    100 m · church in West Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Tropiquaria

    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.

    3.2 km · zoo in West Somerset, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Combe 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.

    2.2 km · Grade I listed building in West Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Nettlecombe Court

    Nettlecombe Court and park is an old estate on the northern fringes of the Brendon Hills, within the Exmoor National Park. They are within the civil parish of Nettlecombe, named after the house, and are approximately 3.6 miles from the village of Williton, in the English county of Somerset.

    100 m · Grade I listed country house in Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church 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.

    3.4 km · church in Williton, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Orchard 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.

    2.9 km · Grade I listed building in West Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Nettlecombe, Somerset

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 29 km · Bristol (BRS), 52 km · Birmingham (BHX), 184 km
Stations
Washford railway station, 3.6 km
  • Bristol → Nettlecombe, Somerset
    63 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £9–12
  • London → Nettlecombe, Somerset
    228 km · quickest by road, 4h 34m · £24–32
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Nettlecombe, Somerset
    180 km · quickest by road, 3h 41m · £21–28
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Nettlecombe, Somerset

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 Nettlecombe, Somerset. 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

    92 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    152 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    488 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    508 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    544 km

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Around it

Next door to Nettlecombe, Somerset

Nettlecombe, Somerset is 40 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Stogumbervillage and civil parish in Somerset, UK3.8 km
  • Sampford Brettvillage and civil parish in Somerset, United Kingdom3.9 km
  • Elworthyvillage and civil parish in Somerset, England3.9 km
  • Monksilvervillage in Somerset, England, UK1.5 km
  • Washfordvillage in Somerset, England, UK3.5 km
  • Roadwatervillage in Somerset, United Kingdom2.3 km