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Pooltown near Kingsbridge, Somerset

Pooltown

(4.6 miles, 7.4 km, direction N)

A small hamlet near Luxborough, Somerset. The name 'Pooltown' comes from the large number of pools found there along the Washford River...

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A packhorse bridge in the village of Winsford on Exmoor National Park, Somerset.

Winsford

(5.1 miles, 8.1 km, direction NW)

One of the prettiest and most unspoilt of villages, steeped in history and mentioned in the Domesday book..

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Withypool Bridge

Withypool

(8.6 miles, 13.9 km, direction NW)

R.D.Blackmore wrote part of Lorna Doone in the bar of the Royal Oak in Withypool and the famous artist Alfred Munnings had a studio in the loft..

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Blue Anchor, Somerset

Blue Anchor

(8.8 miles, 14.2 km, direction N)

Blue Anchor in Somerset is a village dominated by the bay in which it is named after, and by the Hoburn Holiday Park, a quiet well kept park for holiday makers that sits just.....

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Minehead

Minehead

(9.9 miles, 15.9 km, direction N)

Minehead is a quintessential English seaside resort on the beautiful Somerset coast whose mild climate has been a magnet for visitors since Victorian times. At the end of Quay.....

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Luccombe village, Somerset

Luccombe

(10.0 miles, 16.1 km, direction NW)

There really could be no finer example of the perfect English village than Luccombe....

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The edge of Exmoor

Selworthy Green

(10.9 miles, 17.5 km, direction N)

Selworthy Green is the start of a picturesque walk through steep woodlands to the gorse-gold and heather clad summit of Selworthy Beacon from which there are magnificent views over the undulating countryside...

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St Audries Manor in West Quantoxhead

West Quantoxhead

(11.4 miles, 18.3 km, direction NE)

The parish of West Quantoxhead lies on the northern slopes of the Quantock Hills, approximately ¾ mile from the Bristol Channel. It sits on the A39 road from Bridgwater to.....

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Porlock Bus service.

Porlock

(11.6 miles, 18.7 km, direction NW)

Once, long before the 11th-century when the sea receded the village of Porlock was a Port....

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Porlock Weir, West Somerset.

Porlock Weir

(13.2 miles, 21.2 km, direction NW)

The fickle seas of the Middle Ages caused neighbouring Porlock's harbour to dry up giving Porlock Weir the opportunity to open up as a small port. These day's Porlock Weir is.....

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Tarr Steps, Dulverton, Somerset, dating from 1000 BC

Tarr Steps

(6.6 miles, 10.6 km, direction W)

A Prehistoric bridge dating from 1000 BC. The bridge crosses the river Barle with some of its stones weighing 5 tonnes, and said.....

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Dunster Watermill

(8.3 miles, 13.3 km, direction N)

Fully restored 18th century working watermill...

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Dunster - Village & Castle (1) - June 2003

Dunster Castle & Garden

(8.3 miles, 13.4 km, direction N)

The high walls of Dunster Castle look down over the quaint village of Dunster from its imperious setting atop of a classically.....

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Bakerlite Museum Williton, Somerset

Bakelite Museum

(9.1 miles, 14.6 km, direction NE)

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Ornamental pond

Knightshayes Court

(9.4 miles, 15.1 km, direction S)

Victorian country house with richly decorated interiors and garden with outstanding plant collection...

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Porlock Bay

Exmoor National Park

(9.9 miles, 16.0 km, direction NW)

A castle perched high above the sea dominates the north-eastern corner of Exmoor. For hundreds of years Dunster Castle has stood.....

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Bishops Lydeard Station.

West Somerset Railway

(10.0 miles, 16.1 km, direction N)

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Tiverton Castle

(10.8 miles, 17.4 km, direction S)

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Halsway Manor Children's Festival

Halsway Manor

(11.1 miles, 17.9 km, direction NE)

Halsway Manor is unique residential Folk Centre set on the southern slopes of the Quantock Hills in West Somerset. Set in.....

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Canal Basin Clouds

Grand Western Canal Country Park

(11.1 miles, 17.9 km, direction S)

Located in the heart of Devon, the Grand Western Canal Country Park eleven and a quarter miles long, with the canal following the.....

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