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Wrington

Wrington is a village and a civil and ecclesiastical parish on the north slopes of the Mendip Hills in North Somerset, England.

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The place

Wrington is a village and a civil and ecclesiastical parish on the north slopes of the Mendip Hills in North Somerset, England. Both include nearby Redhill. Wrington lies in the valley of the Congresbury Yeo river, about 9 miles (14 km) east of Weston-super-Mare and 3 miles (4.8 km) south-east of Yatton. Its population was 2,633 at the 2011 Census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wrington

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
    Cadbury Hill

    Cadbury Hill is a small hill, mostly in the civil parish of Congresbury, overlooking the village of Yatton in North Somerset. On its summit stands an Iron Age hill fort, which is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

    3.5 km · hill in Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bow Bridge

    Bow Bridge is a Grade II listed stone arched bridge, that crosses the Congresbury Yeo at Iwood, a hamlet of Congresbury in North Somerset. The bridge is largely intact and dates from the early 19th century.

    1.9 km · bridge in Iwood, Congresbury, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of All Saints, Wrington

    The Church of All Saints is the Church of England parish church for the large village of Wrington, Somerset, England. There has been a church here since the 13th century, though much of the present building dates from the 15th century.

    200 m · church in Wrington, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of Holy Trinity, Burrington

    The Church of the Holy Trinity in Burrington, Somerset, England, is from the 15th century and was restored in 1884. It is a Grade I listed building.

    3.5 km · church in Burrington, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Andrew

    The Anglican Church of St Andrew in Congresbury, Somerset, England dates from the 13th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. Congresbury is named after St Congar, who is said to have performed three miracles in the area.

    3.6 km · church in Congresbury, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of Holy Trinity, Cleeve

    The Church Of Holy Trinity at Cleeve in the English county of Somerset was built in 1840. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.5 km · church in Cleeve, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Urchinwood Manor

    Urchinwood Manor is a Grade II* listed building at Congresbury within the English county of Somerset. Part of the house was built around 1620 with additions being made in the 17th century.

    2.4 km · manor house in Congresbury, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Jubilee Clock Tower

    The Jubilee Clock Tower, striking clock, and drinking fountain, is a Grade II listed building in the village of Churchill, North Somerset, built to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897. It stands on a plot between Dinghurst Road and Front Street, and is a prominent landmark at the entrance to the village.

    3.9 km · Jubilee Clock Tower, Churchill, North Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Churchill Methodist Church

    Churchill Methodist Church, in the village of Churchill, North Somerset, is a Grade II listed Methodist church on the Somerset Mendip Methodist Circuit. Designed by Foster & Wood, Bristol, of Perpendicular Gothic style, the church opened on 2 May 1881.

    3.9 km · Methodist Church in Churchill, North 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 Wrington

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 4 km · Cardiff (CWL), 40 km · Birmingham (BHX), 140 km
Stations
Bristol Airport, 3.9 km · Wrington railway station, 300 m · Congresbury railway station, 3.8 km
  • Cardiff → Wrington
    32 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £7–10
  • London → Wrington
    184 km · quickest by road, 3h 35m · £19–25
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Wrington
    138 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £15–20
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Wrington

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 Wrington. 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
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    127 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    134 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    494 km
  4. 04
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    513 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    530 km

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

Around it

Next door to Wrington

Wrington is 16 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Congresburyvillage and civil parish in Somerset, UK3.4 km
  • Churchillvillage and civil parish in Somerset, England3.7 km
  • Cleevevillage and civil parish in Somerset, England, UK3.4 km
  • Burringtonvillage and civil parish in Somerset, United Kingdom3.6 km
  • Lower Langfordvillage in Somerset, England, UK2.7 km
  • Redhillvillage in Somerset, UK2.7 km