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Nunney

Nunney is a village and civil parish in the English county of Somerset.

Nunney
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The place

Nunney is a village and civil parish in the English county of Somerset. It is located 3 miles (5 km) south-west of Frome and the parish includes the hamlet of Holwell.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Nunney

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.

  1. 01
    Nunney Castle

    Nunney Castle is a medieval castle at Nunney in the English county of Somerset. Built in the late 14th century by Sir John Delamare on the profits of his involvement in the Hundred Years' War, the moated castle's architectural style, possibly influenced by the design of French castles, has provoked considerable academic debate.

    200 m · medieval castle in Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    equestrian statue of Edward Horner

    The equestrian statue of Edward Horner stands inside St Andrew's Church in the village of Mells in Somerset, south-western England. It was designed by the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, as a memorial to Edward Horner, who died of wounds in the First World War.

    3.9 km · memorial to Edward Horner, who died of wounds in the First World War · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Andrew's Church, Mells

    St Andrew's Church is a Church of England parish church located in the village of Mells in the English county of Somerset. The church is a grade I listed building.

    3.9 km · church in Mells, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Leonard, Marston Bigot

    The Church of St Leonard in Marston Bigot, Somerset, England, was built by Edmund Boyle, 7th Earl of Cork and Orrery, to replace an earlier church on another site which he had had demolished for spoiling the view from Marston House. It opened to the public in 1789.

    2 km · church in Marston Bigot, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Mells War Memorial

    Mells War Memorial is a First World War memorial by Sir Edwin Lutyens in the village of Mells in the Mendip Hills of Somerset, south-western England. Unveiled in 1921, the memorial is one of multiple buildings and structures Lutyens designed in Mells.

    3.7 km · war memorial in Mells, Somerset, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of All Saints, Nunney

    The Church of All Saints at Nunney, Somerset, England, is a Grade I listed building dating from the 12th century. It was probably built on the site of an earlier Saxon or Norman church from which a Saxon cross and Norman font can still be seen.

    200 m · church in Nunney, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St Mary Magdalene, Great Elm

    The Church of St Mary Magdalene in Great Elm, Somerset, England, dates from the 12th century and is a Grade I listed building. In the 13th century the two-bay nave was lengthened, possibly when the tower was added around 1240.

    4 km · church in Great Elm, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church of St Mary

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

    1.8 km · church in Cloford, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Church of the Holy Trinity, Chantry

    The Church of the Holy Trinity at Chantry, in the parish of Whatley, Somerset, England, dates from 1844 to 1846. It was designed by George Gilbert Scott and William Moffatt, with further work by William George Brown of Frome, for James Fussell, who owned the Old Iron Works, Mells.

    2.3 km · church in Chantry, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Church of St George

    The Anglican Church of St George in Whatley, within the English county of Somerset, dates from the 14th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    2.1 km · church in Whatley, Mendip, 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.

Go there

Getting to Nunney

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 30 km · Cardiff (CWL), 70 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 136 km
  • Cardiff → Nunney
    63 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £11–14
  • London → Nunney
    160 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · £17–22
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Nunney
    145 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · £17–23
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Nunney

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 Nunney. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBrittany Ferries provide vehicle and foot passenger services to and from northern Spain, the Normandy ports of Caen and Cherbourg, and St.
  • Get inCondor Ferries provide services normally from Poole to the Channel Islands and St Malo.
  • Get aroundMinibuses , Paddock Wood, Bradley Road, BA12 7JY.

From Wikivoyage: Warminster, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    95 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    160 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    519 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    544 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    551 km

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

Around it

Next door to Nunney

Nunney is 31 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Mellsvillage and civil parish in Somerset, UK3.6 km
  • Great Elmvillage and civil parish in Somerset, UK3.8 km
  • Whatleyvillage and civil parish in Mendip, Somerset, United Kingdom2.4 km
  • Trudoxhillvillage in Somerset, England, UK2.2 km
  • Marston Bigotvillage in Somerset, England, UK2.3 km