Othery
The parish and village of Othery, established in 1515, sits on a detached extension of Sowy island on the Somerset Levels.
The parish and village of Othery, established in 1515, sits on a detached extension of Sowy island on the Somerset Levels. It is 7 miles (11 km) east of Bridgwater and 4 miles (6 km) north-west of Langport. It borders the hamlets and villages of Pathe, Burrowbridge, Middlezoy, Westonzoyland and Aller, which it meets at Beer Wall. The border with Burrowbridge was defined in 1985, reducing Othery to 553 ha. Many of these borders are defined by ditches and walls created and rearranged, from the 13th century onwards, to drain and channel the waters of the River Cary and the River Parrett as they flooded the low-lying levels on their way to the Bristol Channel.
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Worth seeing in and around Othery
5 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.
- 01Burrow Mump
Burrow Mump is a hill and historic site overlooking Southlake Moor in the village of Burrowbridge within the English county of Somerset. It is a scheduled monument, with a never completed church on top of the hill a Grade II listed building.
2.7 km · hill and castle in Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church of St Michael, Othery
The Church of St Michael in Othery, Somerset, England dates back to the 12th century. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.
200 m · church in Othery, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church of the Holy Cross, Middlezoy
The Church of the Holy Cross in Middlezoy, Somerset, England dates from the 13th century and has been designated as a grade I listed building. William of Bitton II was the rector by 20 April 1263.
1.8 km · church in Middlezoy, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Church of Saint Andrew
The Anglican Church of St Andrew in Aller, Somerset, England, was built in the 11th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.
3 km · church in South Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Aller and Beer Woods
Aller and Beer Woods is a 56.9 hectares biological Site of Special Scientific Interest. off the A372 Othery to Langport road near Aller in Somerset.
2.2 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Othery
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 35 km · Cardiff (CWL), 48 km · Birmingham (BHX), 171 km
- Cardiff → Othery49 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £11–14
- London → Othery197 km · quickest by road, 3h 43m · £20–27
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Othery170 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · £18–24
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No local-transport research exists yet for Othery
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 Othery. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 01119 km
- 02125 km
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If you know how people move in Othery – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Othery
Othery is 46 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Middlezoyvillage in Somerset, England, UK1.3 km
- Burrowbridgevillage in Somerset, England, UK2.9 km
- Allervillage and parish in Somerset, England2.8 km