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Washford

Washford is a village on the Washford River in the civil parish of Old Cleeve, Somerset, England.

Washford
Washford · Geof Sheppard
The place

Washford is a village on the Washford River in the civil parish of Old Cleeve, Somerset, England. The village is next to Cleeve Abbey, one of the best-preserved medieval monasteries in England. It centred in a valley close to the Bristol Channel on the A39 road 7 miles (11 km) east of the resort town of Minehead and 2 miles (3 km) southwest of the port of Watchet.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Washford

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.

    700 m · abbey · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    3.5 km · church in West Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Nicholas, Withycombe

    The Church of St Nicholas in Withycombe, Somerset, England dates from the 13th century and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building. The tower was built in the 14th century, although there is some stonework in the north wall which dates from the 12th century and was part of an earlier building.

    3.1 km · church in West Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Andrew's Church

    The Church of St Andrew in Old Cleeve, Somerset, England dates from the 12th century and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building. In the 12th century Robert FitzGerold gave the church to Bec Abbey in Le Bec Hellouin, Normandy, France, a Benedictine monastic foundation in Eure.

    900 m · church in Old Cleeve, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St John the Baptist, Carhampton

    The Church of St John the Baptist in Carhampton, Somerset, England is a Grade I listed Anglican church. The first church in the village stood to the east of the present church and was dedicated to St Carannog, a Welsh monk of the 6th century.

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

    1.1 km · zoo in West Somerset, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    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.

    2.4 km · church in West Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    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.

    3.5 km · lighthouse in Somerset, England · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Church of St Bartholomew

    The Anglican Church of St Bartholomew in Rodhuish, Somerset, England was built in the 15th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.7 km · church in Rodhuish, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Nettlecombe Court

    Nettlecombe Court and park is an old estate on the northern fringes of the Brendon Hills, within the Exmoor National Park. They are within the civil parish of Nettlecombe, named after the house, and are approximately 3.6 miles from the village of Williton, in the English county of Somerset.

    3.5 km · Grade I listed country house in Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Washford

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 26 km · Bristol (BRS), 51 km · Birmingham (BHX), 182 km
Stations
Washford railway station, 300 m · Blue Anchor railway station, 3.4 km · Watchet railway station, 3.3 km · Williton railway station, 4 km
  • Bristol → Washford
    62 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £8–11
  • London → Washford
    228 km · quickest by road, 4h 34m · £25–33
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Washford
    178 km · quickest by road, 3h 36m · £20–26
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Washford

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 Washford. 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

    91 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    154 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    486 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    505 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    540 km

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Around it

Next door to Washford

Washford is 38 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Watchettown in Somerset, England3.5 km
  • Willitontown and civil parish in Somerset, England, UK4 km
  • Old Cleevevillage and civil parish in Somerset, England, UK1 km
  • Nettlecombevillage and civil parish in Somerset, England, United Kingdom3.5 km
  • Sampford Brettvillage and civil parish in Somerset, United Kingdom3.9 km
  • Withycombevillage and civil parish in Somerset, England3.1 km