West Monkton

Worth seeing in and around West Monkton

9 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
   Hestercombe House

   Hestercombe House is a historic country house in the parish of Cheddon Fitzpaine in the Quantock Hills, near Taunton in Somerset, England. The house is a Grade II* listed building and the estate is Grade I listed on the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England.

   2.7 km · Grade II* listed building in Cheddon Fitzpaine, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Hestercombe Gardens

   Hestercombe Gardens is a garden complex situated on the grounds of Hestercombe House in the southwestern English county of Somerset. The entire garden complex comprises three individual gardens from different stylistic periods.

   2.7 km · Garden in West Monkton, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   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.

   3.4 km · church in Ruishton, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   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.

   3.3 km · church in Creech St Michael, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Church of St Augustine, West Monkton

   The Church of St Augustine in West Monkton, Somerset, England, dates from the 13th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The parish church has an 88 feet tower, of four stories, with no pinnacles or fancy tracery on the windows, giving the tower a slender, austere look compared to the medieval Somerset towers of churches in nearby Taunton, for example.

   500 m · church in West Monkton, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Church of St Mary

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

   2.7 km · church in Cheddon Fitzpaine, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Roman Catholic Church of St Teresa of Lisieux

   The Roman Catholic Church of St Teresa of Lisieux in Taunton, Somerset, England, dates from 1958–1959. It is the only known church design of Eric Francis, a Chepstow-born architect who worked mainly in Monmouthshire and the South-West of England.

   3.8 km · church in Taunton, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Maunsel House

   Maunsel House in the English county of Somerset was built in the late 14th or early 15th century. The house stands south of the hamlet of North Newton, in the parish of North Petherton.

   3.9 km · building in North Petherton, Sedgemoor, England, UK · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Church of St Giles

   The Norman Anglican Church of St Giles in Thurloxton dates from the 14th century but is predominantly from the 15th century with 19th-century restoration including the addition of the north aisle in 1868. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building.

   2 km · church in Thurloxton, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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  210 km · quickest by road, 4h · £22–29
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