Stratton-on-the-Fosse
Stratton-on-the-Fosse is a village and civil parish located on the edge of the Mendip Hills, 2 miles (3 km) south-west of Westfield, 6 miles (10 km) north-east of Shepton Mallet, and 9 miles (14 km) from Frome, in Somerset, England.
Stratton-on-the-Fosse is a village and civil parish located on the edge of the Mendip Hills, 2 miles (3 km) south-west of Westfield, 6 miles (10 km) north-east of Shepton Mallet, and 9 miles (14 km) from Frome, in Somerset, England. It has a population of 1,108, and has a rural agricultural landscape, although it was part of the once-thriving Somerset coalfield. Within the boundaries of the parish are the hamlets of Benter and Nettlebridge.
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Worth seeing in and around Stratton-on-the-Fosse
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.
300 m · Benedictine monastery in Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church 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.
2.1 km · church in Chilcompton, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church 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.
500 m · church in Stratton-on-the-Fosse, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Church 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.
2.7 km · church in Ashwick, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Church 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.
3.6 km · church in Stoke St Michael, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Church of St. Andrew, Holcombe
The Church of St Andrew near Holcombe, Somerset, England has late Saxon-early Norman origins and was rebuilt in the 15th/16th centuries. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
1.4 km · church in Holcombe, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Stoke Lane Slocker
Stoke Lane Slocker is a cave near Stoke St Michael, in the Carboniferous Limestone of the Mendip Hills, in the English county of Somerset. It is 2.18 km in length and reaches a depth of 30m.
3.3 km · limestone cave in Somerset, England · 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.
2.7 km · building in Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Shatter 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.
3 km · cave in Somerset, England · Wikipedia - 10The Priory
The Priory in Church Square, Midsomer Norton, within the English county of Somerset was rebuilt in the early or mid 17th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.
3.8 km · listed building in Midsomer Norton, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Stratton-on-the-Fosse
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 21 km · Cardiff (CWL), 61 km · Birmingham (BHX), 143 km
- Stations
- Chilcompton railway station, 1.3 km
- Cardiff → Stratton-on-the-Fosse54 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £9–12
- London → Stratton-on-the-Fosse167 km · quickest by road, 3h 27m · £18–24
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Stratton-on-the-Fosse142 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £15–20
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No local-transport research exists yet for Stratton-on-the-Fosse
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 Stratton-on-the-Fosse. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Stratton-on-the-Fosse is 24 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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