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Woolavington

Woolavington is a village and civil parish on the Somerset Levels in the English county of Somerset.

Woolavington
Woolavington · Geof Sheppard
The place

Woolavington is a village and civil parish on the Somerset Levels in the English county of Somerset. It is 5.2 miles (8.4 km) north east of Bridgwater, 7.2 miles (11.6 km) south east of Burnham on Sea and 11.9 miles (19.2 km) west of Glastonbury. At the 2021 census it had a population of 2,325.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Woolavington

4 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
    Church of St Mary, Woolavington

    The Church of St Mary in Woolavington, Somerset, England has 11th-century origins and is a Grade I listed building.

    500 m · church in Woolavington, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Michael and All Angels, Puriton

    The Church of St Michael and All Angels in Puriton, Somerset, England was constructed from local Blue Lias stone. It has an early 13th-century tower, with the remainder of the building dating from the 14th and 15th centuries.

    2.9 km · church in Puriton, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Mary

    The Anglican Church of St Mary in Cossington within the English county of Somerset was built in the 13th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    2 km · church in Cossington, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Michael and All Angels

    The Anglican Church of St Michael and All Angels in Bawdrip, Somerset, England was built in the late 13th or early 14th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    2.7 km · church in Bawdrip, 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.

Go there

Getting to Woolavington

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 28 km · Cardiff (CWL), 38 km · Birmingham (BHX), 164 km
Stations
Bason Bridge railway station, 3.7 km · Bawdrip Halt railway station, 2.5 km · Cossington railway station, 1.6 km
  • London → Woolavington
    199 km · quickest by road, 3h 51m · £22–30
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Woolavington
    163 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £17–23
  • Luton, Luton → Woolavington
    192 km · quickest by road, 3h 55m · £24–33
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Woolavington

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 Woolavington. 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

    121 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    126 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    511 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    511 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    546 km

If you know how people move in Woolavington – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Woolavington

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

  • Puritonvillage in Somerset, England, UK2.8 km
  • Chilton Poldenvillage and civil parish in Somerset, UK3.6 km
  • Cossingtonvillage and civil parish in Somerset, United Kingdom1.8 km
  • Bawdripvillage in Somerset, England, UK2.8 km
  • East Huntspillvillage and civil parish in Somerset, England, UK2.7 km