Taunton
Worth seeing in and around Taunton
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.
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- 05Hestercombe House
Grade II* listed building in Cheddon Fitzpaine, Somerset, England, UK
4.4 km · Wikipedia - 06
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- 08Church of All Saints, Norton Fitzwarren
Church in Norton Fitzwarren, Somerset, England, UK
3.4 km · Wikipedia - 09
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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.
Getting to Taunton
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 46 km · Bristol (BRS), 49 km · Birmingham (BHX), 185 km
- Stations
- Taunton railway station, 900 m · Norton Fitzwarren railway station, 3.9 km
- Cardiff → Taunton52 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £11–15
- Bristol → Taunton60 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · £7–9
- London → Taunton214 km · quickest by road, 4h · £22–29
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Taunton
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 Taunton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Taunton
Taunton is 52 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Norton Fitzwarrenvillage and civil parish in Somerset, UK3.4 km
- Bradford-on-Tonevillage and civil parish in Taunton Deane, Somerset, England5.7 km
- Bishop's Hullvillage in Somerset, England, UK2.5 km
- Kingston St Maryvillage and civil parish in Somerset, UK5 km
- Creech St Michaelvillage in Somerset, England, UK4.6 km
- West Monktonvillage in Somerset, England, UK5.7 km