Watchet

Worth seeing in and around Watchet

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.

   3.9 km · abbey · Wikipedia
2. 02
   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.

   5.7 km · church in West Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   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.

   5.6 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.

   3.6 km · church in Old Cleeve, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   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.

   5.1 km · church in Bicknoller, 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.

   2.7 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.

   1.1 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.

   500 m · lighthouse in Somerset, England · Wikipedia
9. 09
   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.

   5.7 km · Grade I listed country house in Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Chapel Cleeve Manor

    Chapel Cleeve Manor is a Grade II* listed building in Chapel Cleeve, Somerset, England. It started life in the 1450s as a pilgrims' hostel.

    4 km · historic site in Somerset, England, 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.

What Wikivoyage says to see

1. 01
   The Watchet Marinia

   10 The Esplanade, TA23 0AJ,.

2. 02
   Cleeve Abbey
3. 03
   Market House Museum
4. 04
   Watchet Boat Museum and Visitor Centre

   4 Swain St, TA23 0AA.

From Wikivoyage: Watchet, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Where to eat

1. 01
   Watchet Fish and Chips

   48 Liddymore Rd, TA23 0DS,.

From Wikivoyage: Watchet, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Getting to Watchet

Airports

Cardiff (CWL), 24 km · Bristol (BRS), 48 km · Birmingham (BHX), 178 km

Stations

Blue Anchor railway station, 5.5 km · Washford railway station, 3.7 km · Watchet railway station, 400 m · Williton railway station, 1.8 km · Doniford Halt railway station, 1 km

• Bristol → Watchet

  59 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £8–10
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• London → Watchet

  226 km · quickest by road, 4h 35m · £25–33
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• Birmingham, West Midlands → Watchet

  175 km · quickest by road, 3h 36m · £20–26
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