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Sampford Brett

Sampford Brett is a village and civil parish situated at the south-western edge of the Quantock Hills, Somerset, England, less than 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Williton, just off the A358 road to Taunton.

Sampford Brett
Sampford Brett · Robert Cutts from Bristol, England, UK
The place

Sampford Brett is a village and civil parish situated at the south-western edge of the Quantock Hills, Somerset, England, less than 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Williton, just off the A358 road to Taunton.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sampford Brett

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
    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.

    3.8 km · abbey · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Decuman, Watchet

    The Church of St Decuman in Watchet, Somerset, England has a 13th-century chancel with the rest of the church being from the 15th century. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.

    3 km · church in West Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Watchet Harbour Lighthouse

    The Watchet Harbour Lighthouse is a marine navigational aid marking the entrance to a Marina within the town of Watchet, in Somerset, England.

    3.2 km · lighthouse in Somerset, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Mary

    The Church of St Mary in Stogumber, Somerset, England dates from the late 13th century. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.

    3.5 km · church in Stogumber, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    3.3 km · church in West Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    3.9 km · church in West Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St George, Bicknoller

    The Church of St George in Bicknoller, Somerset, England dates from the 12th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The church is dominated by a 1000-year-old yew tree in its grounds.

    2.8 km · church in Bicknoller, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    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.

    2.8 km · zoo in West Somerset, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Church of St George

    The Anglican Church of St George in Sampford Brett, Somerset, England was built around 1300. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    500 m · church in Sampford Brett, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Watchet Library

    Watchet Lifeboat Station was located at the eastern end of The Esplanade at Watchet, a harbour town on the edge of Exmoor National Park approximately 8 miles east of Minehead, which sits at the mouth of the Washford River, overlooking Bridgwater Bay and the Bristol Channel, on the Somerset coast. A lifeboat station was first established at Watchet in 1875 by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

    3.1 km · public library in Somerset, 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 Sampford Brett

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 27 km · Bristol (BRS), 48 km · Birmingham (BHX), 180 km
Stations
Watchet railway station, 3 km · Williton railway station, 1.1 km · Doniford Halt railway station, 2.2 km
  • Bristol → Sampford Brett
    60 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £8–10
  • London → Sampford Brett
    225 km · quickest by road, 4h 31m · £24–32
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Sampford Brett
    177 km · quickest by road, 3h 36m · £20–26
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sampford Brett

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 Sampford Brett. 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

    95 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    150 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    489 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    506 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    542 km

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Around it

Next door to Sampford Brett

Sampford Brett is 37 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Willitontown and civil parish in Somerset, England, UK900 m
  • Bicknollervillage and civil parish in Somerset, UK2.7 km
  • Stogumbervillage and civil parish in Somerset, UK3.2 km
  • Nettlecombevillage and civil parish in Somerset, England, United Kingdom3.8 km
  • Monksilvervillage in Somerset, England, UK2.9 km