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Stoke St Mary

Stoke St Mary is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated 2 miles (3.2 km) south east of Taunton.

Stoke St Mary
Stoke St Mary · Dietmar Rabich
The place

Stoke St Mary is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated 2 miles (3.2 km) south east of Taunton.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Stoke St Mary

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
    Church of St George

    The Church of St George in Ruishton, Somerset, England was built in the 14th to 16th centuries and has been designated as a grade I listed building. The south chapel was built in the 14th and 15th centuries.

    2.8 km · church in Ruishton, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Michael, Creech St Michael

    The Church of St Michael, which stands next to the River Tone in Creech St Michael, Somerset, England dates from the 13th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The church came into the ownership of Montacute Priory in 1362.

    3.2 km · church in Creech St Michael, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of the Holy Cross, Thornfalcon

    The Church of the Holy Cross in Thornfalcon, Somerset, England dates from the 14th century and was restored in 1882 by Benjamin Ferrey. It has been designated as a grade I listed building.

    2.6 km · church in Thornfalcon, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St George's Roman Catholic Church, Taunton

    The Church of St George is a Roman Catholic church in Taunton, Somerset, which dates from the mid-19th century. It was the second Catholic church to be built in Taunton after the Reformation, replacing the much smaller St George's Chapel.

    3.9 km · church in Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Thomas

    The Church of St Thomas in the village of Thurlbear, which is in the parish of Orchard Portman, Somerset, England, dates from the 12th century. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.

    1.2 km · church in Orchard Portman, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Joseph's Convent

    St Joseph's Convent is a complex of 18th- and 19th-century buildings in Taunton, Somerset. They were primarily used as a Roman Catholic convent.

    3.6 km · listed building in the UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St Mary

    The Anglican Church of St Mary in Stoke St Mary, Somerset, England was built in the 13th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    200 m · church in Stoke St Mary, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Michael's Church

    The Anglican Church of St Michael in Orchard Portman, Somerset, England, dates from the Norman period. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    2.1 km · church in Orchard Portman, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Richard Huish College, Taunton

    Richard Huish College is a further education and sixth-form college in Taunton, Somerset, England. Located on a single site in South Road, about a mile from the centre of Taunton, it offers Level 2 Pathways, Level 3 A Level and Vocational courses, Education Apprenticeships and AAT Accountancy qualifications.

    3.2 km · college in Somerset, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Taunton Flower Show

    Taunton Flower Show is an annual flower show held in Vivary Park, Taunton, Somerset, England. It has been described as "The Chelsea of the West", and attracts around 17,000 visitors over its two days.

    3.5 km · annual flower show held in Vivary Park, Taunton, Somerset, England · Wikipedia

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Getting to Stoke St Mary

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 49 km · Cardiff (CWL), 49 km · Birmingham (BHX), 185 km
  • Bristol → Stoke St Mary
    60 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · £7–9
  • Cardiff → Stoke St Mary
    55 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £11–15
  • London → Stoke St Mary
    211 km · quickest by road, 3h 55m · £22–29
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Stoke St Mary

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inWithin the West Country itself are two seaports offering international ferry services: Plymouth receives ferries from Roscoff and St Malo in France, and Santander in Spain, while Poole receives ferries from Cherbourg and St Malo in France, plus Santander and the Channel Islands.

From Wikivoyage: West Country, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    115 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    127 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    514 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    528 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    563 km

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

Around it

Next door to Stoke St Mary

Stoke St Mary is 55 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.