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Yeovil
Town in Somerset, England

Yeovil

Yeovil is a town and civil parish in Somerset, England.

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It is close to the county's southern border with Dorset, 126 miles (203 km) west of London, 42 miles (68 km) south of Bristol, 6 miles (10 km) west of Sherborne and 28 miles (45 km) east of Taunton. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 31,633, and the built-up area, which extends into the neighbouring parishes of Brympton, West Coker, and Yeovil Without, had a population of 50,170.

Get in

Getting to Yeovil

Thanks to the foresight of Victorian railway engineers, Yeovil is on two railway lines that cross but do not link up and is therefore proud to possess two railway stations:

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Jack the Treacle Eater

    BA22 9TB.

  2. 02
    Tintinhull Garden

    Farm Street, Tintinhull, BA22 8PZ (4 miles north west of Yeovil), tintinhull@nationaltrust.org.uk.

  3. 03
    Museum of South Somerset
  4. 04
    Fleet Air Arm Museum

    Ilchester, BA22 8HW (7 miles north of Yeovil), Fleetairarm.enquiries@nmrn.org.uk.

  5. 05
    Haynes International Motor Museum

    Sparkford, BA22 7LH (9 miles North of Yeovil), visitus@himm.co.uk.

  6. 06
    Abbey Farm House
Do

Things to do

Football:

  1. 01
    Yeovil Town FC

    They were promoted in 2024 and now play soccer in the National League, the fifth tier.

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