Oakhill
Oakhill is a village in Somerset, England, in Ashwick parish approximately 2.5 miles (4 km) north of Shepton Mallet.
Oakhill is a village in Somerset, England, in Ashwick parish approximately 2.5 miles (4 km) north of Shepton Mallet. It lies between the A37 and the A367. Oakhill is today mainly a commuter village of 0.4 square miles (1.0 km2) in size, and is notable for former activities which including brewing. The village contains a Church of England primary school and a surgery, as well as a public house, the Oakhill Inn.
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Worth seeing in and around Oakhill
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.
- 01Downside Abbey
Downside Abbey is a former Benedictine monastery in England and the senior community of the English Benedictine Congregation. Until 2019, the community had close links with Downside School, for the education of children aged 11 to 18.
4 km · Benedictine monastery in Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church of St Peter and St Paul, Shepton Mallet
The Church of St Peter and St Paul in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England, dates from the 12th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. There is evidence of a church on the site from before the Norman Conquest of 1066, and the font may date from that time.
4 km · church in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church of St James, Ashwick
The Church of St James in Ashwick, Somerset, England, is a church dating from 1881. It is a Grade I listed building, adjacent to Ashwick Court.
1.1 km · church in Ashwick, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Church of the Holy Trinity
The Anglican Church of the Holy Trinity, Binegar, Somerset, England is Norman but has been rebuilt and restored several times since. It is a Grade II* listed building.
2.9 km · church in Binegar, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Charlton Viaduct
Charlton Viaduct is a disused railway bridge in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, in south-west England. It is a Grade II* listed building.
3.9 km · bridge in Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Church of St Michael
The Anglican Church of St Michael in Stoke St Michael, Somerset, England was built around 1400. It is a Grade II* listed building.
2.9 km · church in Stoke St Michael, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 0726, 26B And 27, Kilver Street
Kilver Court is a historic house and gardens in Shepton Mallet in the English county of Somerset. The River Sheppey powered textile mills and it later became a factory, the headquarters of the Showerings brewing business, and then the headquarters of a leather-goods manufacturer, Mulberry.
3.8 km · house in Shepton Mallet, Mendip, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Ashwick Court
Ashwick Court is Grade II listed house on Heckley Lane northwest of Ashwick, in Mendip district, eastern Somerset, England, adjacent to the Church of St James. It is a country house, dating from the late 17th century and became a listed building on 2 June 1961.
1.2 km · building in Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Hobbs Quarry SSSI, Shepton Mallet
Hobbs Quarry is a 0.5 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Shepton Mallet on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, notified in 1984. This disused quarry, which now forms the back of a builders merchants yard, is a Geological Conservation Review Site which demonstrates early Jurassic transgression, with steeply-dipping Carboniferous Limestone being overlain by flatter-lying massive limestones known as the Downside Stone.
3.1 km · Geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset, England · Wikipedia - 10Shatter Cave
Shatter Cave is a cave in Fairy Cave Quarry, near Stoke St Michael in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England. It falls within the St.
2.2 km · cave in Somerset, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Oakhill
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 22 km · Cardiff (CWL), 60 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 146 km
- Stations
- Binegar railway station, 2.7 km · Masbury railway station, 3.2 km
- Cardiff → Oakhill54 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £9–12
- London → Oakhill170 km · quickest by road, 3h 22m · £18–24
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Oakhill146 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · £15–21
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Oakhill
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 Oakhill. 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 Oakhill – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Oakhill
Oakhill is 26 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Shepton Malletsmall town in Somerset, England3.8 km
- Stratton-on-the-Fossevillage in Somerset, England, UK3.7 km
- Stoke St Michaelvillage and civil parish in Somerset, United Kingdom3 km
- Binegarvillage and civil parish in Somerset, England, UK2.9 km
- Doultingvillage and civil parish in Somerset, England, UK4 km
- Ashwickvillage in Somerset, England, UK1.1 km