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Bishops Lydeard

Bishops Lydeard

Bishops Lydeard is a village and civil parish located in Somerset, England, 5 miles (8 km) north-west of Taunton.

Plan a trip to Bishops Lydeard From Bristol

The civil parish encompasses the hamlets of East Lydeard and Terhill, and had a population of 2,839 persons as recorded in the 2011 census; this figure, however, includes the village of Cotford St Luke.

Get in

Getting to Bishops Lydeard

The nearest airports are at Bristol Airport (BRS IATA), to the north-west and Exeter Airport (EXT IATA), to the south-west, both about 35 mi (56 km) away. By road, leave the M5 motorway at exit 25. Taunton has a railway station on the main line from London Paddington (typical journey time 2 hr 5 min) to Exeter (25 min), Plymouth (1 hr 30 min), and Penzance (3 hr 40 min). Bristol is 35 min away by rail.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Museum of Somerset

    Castle Green, TA1 4AA, county-museums@somerset.gov.uk.

  2. 02
    Hestercombe House and Gardens

    This is one of the finest examples of the world-renowned partnership between garden designer Gertrude Jekyll and architect Sir Edwin Lutyens.

  3. 03
    County Classics Motor Museum

    52-53 North Street, TA1 1ND,.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Brewhouse Theatre

    Coal Orchard TA1 1JL,.

  2. 02
    County Ground

    St James St TA1 1JT (just east of river).

  3. 03
    Taunton Racecourse

    Orchard Portman TA3 7BL (B3170 two miles south of town), info@tauntonracecourse.co.uk.

Eat

Where to eat

All of the major fast food chains are represented, including two branches each of Subway and McDonald's. The town has a range of coffee shops, including the major chains Starbucks, Costa and Caffè Nero.

  1. 01
    Pizza Express

    Castle Bow Restaurant, in Castle Hotel, see Sleep,.

  2. 02
    The Barn
How locals move

Getting around Bishops Lydeard the local way

  • Get inWithin the West Country itself are two seaports offering international ferry services: Plymouth receives ferries from Roscoff and St Malo in France, and Santander in Spain, while Poole receives ferries from Cherbourg and St Malo in France, plus Santander and the Channel Islands.

From Wikivoyage: West Country, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-06.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: mattbuck (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.