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Radstock

Radstock is a town and civil parish on the northern slope of the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England, about 9 miles (14 km) south-west of Bath and 8 miles (13 km) north-west of Frome.

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The place

Radstock is a town and civil parish on the northern slope of the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England, about 9 miles (14 km) south-west of Bath and 8 miles (13 km) north-west of Frome. It is within the area of the unitary authority of Bath and North East Somerset. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 6,149, and the built-up area as defined by the Office for National Statistics, which extends into the neighbouring parish of Westfield, had a population of 9,980.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Radstock

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
    Downside 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.

    5.3 km · Benedictine monastery in Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Margaret's Church, Babington

    The Church of St Margaret is a Grade I listed building, adjacent to Babington House in Babington, Somerset, England. The church is owned and operated by the St Margaret's, Babington, Charitable Trust, which is completely independent of the management of Babington House.

    4.3 km · church in Babington, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Somerset Coal Canal

    The Somerset Coal Canal was a narrow canal in England, built around 1800. Its route began in basins at Paulton and Timsbury, ran to nearby Camerton, over two aqueducts at Dunkerton, through a tunnel at Combe Hay, then via Midford and Monkton Combe to Limpley Stoke where it joined the Kennet and Avon Canal.

    5.3 km · canal in Somerset, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St John the Baptist

    The Anglican Church of St John the Baptist in Chilcompton, within the English county of Somerset, was built in the 15th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    4.9 km · church in Chilcompton, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Vigor, Stratton-on-the-Fosse

    The Anglican Church of St Vigor in Stratton-on-the-Fosse, Somerset, England, dates from the 12th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. Saint Vigor was a French bishop and Christian missionary.

    5.1 km · church in Stratton-on-the-Fosse, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Peter's Church, Camerton Park

    The Church of St Peter at Camerton Park in Camerton, Somerset, England was built in the 15th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. From 1800 to 1839 the vicar was the archaeologist John Skinner.

    2.5 km · church in Camerton, Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St Peter and St Paul, Kilmersdon

    The Anglican Church of St Peter and St Paul in Kilmersdon, Somerset, England, dates back to the Norman period, though much of the current structure was built during the 15th and 16th centuries and restored in the Victorian era. It is a Grade I listed building.

    2.7 km · church in Kilmersdon, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church of St Luke and St Andrew, Priston

    The Church of St Luke and St Andrew in Priston, Somerset, England has a nave dating from the 12th century, on the site of an earlier Norman church. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.

    5.5 km · church in Priston, Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Church of St Mary, Hemington

    St. Mary's Hemington is an Anglican church in Hemington, Somerset, England.

    4.3 km · church in Hemington, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Church of the Holy Trinity, Paulton

    The Anglican Church of the Holy Trinity in Paulton, Somerset, England, was founded in 1235 and is a Grade II* listed building. It was built on the site of an earlier church.

    4.2 km · church in Paulton, Bath and North East 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 Radstock

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 21 km · Cardiff (CWL), 63 km · Birmingham (BHX), 138 km
Stations
Chilcompton railway station, 5.6 km · Radstock North railway station, 100 m · Wellow (Somerset) railway station, 5.9 km · Shoscombe and Single Hill Halt railway station, 3.4 km · Camerton railway station, 3 km
  • Cardiff → Radstock
    55 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £9–11
  • London → Radstock
    163 km · quickest by road, 3h 22m · £18–23
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Radstock
    137 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £15–20
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Radstock

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextBristol — with its many attractions situated around the floating harbour and Avon Gorge, is 12 miles drive or 15 minutes train journey away, and makes an excellent day trip from Bath.

From Wikivoyage: Bath, 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

    105 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    155 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    508 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    536 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    545 km

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

Around it

Next door to Radstock

Radstock is 21 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.