Williton
Williton is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England.
Williton is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England. The village lies 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of Watchet, and 14 miles (23 km) north-west of Taunton, its post town. As well as the village itself, the parish also covers surrounding rural areas, including the hamlets of Stream to the south-west and Doniford on the coast to the north-east, where there is a Haven Holidays centre. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 2,833.
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Worth seeing in and around Williton
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.
- 01Church 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.
3.2 km · church in Bicknoller, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Watchet 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.
2.5 km · lighthouse in Somerset, England · Wikipedia - 03Tropiquaria
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.
2.8 km · zoo in West Somerset, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Church 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 - 05Church of St Etheldreda
The Church of St Etheldreda, also known as the Church of St Audries, is a Church of England parish church in West Quantoxhead, Somerset, England. Designed by John Norton, it was built in 1854-56 and is a Grade II* listed building.
2.8 km · church in West Quantoxhead, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Watchet Library
Watchet Lifeboat Station was located at the eastern end of The Esplanade at Watchet, a harbour town on the edge of Exmoor National Park approximately 8 miles east of Minehead, which sits at the mouth of the Washford River, overlooking Bridgwater Bay and the Bristol Channel, on the Somerset coast. A lifeboat station was first established at Watchet in 1875 by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
2.3 km · public library in Somerset, UK · Wikipedia - 07Watchet Boat Museum
Watchet Boat Museum is a small museum in Watchet, Somerset, England. It is housed in the 1862, Victorian, former railway goods shed of Watchet railway station, which is today located on the heritage West Somerset Railway.
2 km · Maritime museum in Watchet, England · Wikipedia - 08Church of St Peter
The Anglican Church of St Peter in Williton in the English county of Somerset is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. The earliest church on the site may have been the private chapel of a Saxon royal manor.
1.2 km · church in Williton, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Orchard Wyndham
Orchard Wyndham is a historic manor near Williton in Somerset, centred on the synonymous grade I listed manor house of Orchard Wyndham that was situated historically in the parish of Watchet and about two miles south of the parish church of St Decuman's, Watchet. Parts of the manor house are medieval.
1.7 km · Grade I listed building in West Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Church of St George
The Anglican Church of St George in Sampford Brett, Somerset, England was built around 1300. It is a Grade II* listed building.
1.3 km · church in Sampford Brett, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Williton
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 26 km · Bristol (BRS), 48 km · Birmingham (BHX), 179 km
- Stations
- Watchet railway station, 2.3 km · Williton railway station, 200 m · Doniford Halt railway station, 1.3 km
- Bristol → Williton60 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £8–10
- London → Williton225 km · quickest by road, 4h 31m · £25–33
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Williton176 km · quickest by road, 3h 32m · £20–26
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Williton
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 Williton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Williton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Williton
Williton is 36 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Watchettown in Somerset, England2 km
- Bicknollervillage and civil parish in Somerset, UK3.1 km
- Sampford Brettvillage and civil parish in Somerset, United Kingdom900 m
- West Quantoxheadvillage and civil parish in Somerset, United Kingdom2.8 km
- Monksilvervillage in Somerset, England, UK3.8 km
- Washfordvillage in Somerset, England, UK4 km