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Minehead station

Minehead

(0.6 miles, 1.0 km)

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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Selworthy Church

Selworthy Green

(3.4 miles, 5.5 km, direction W)

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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Blue Anchor, Somerset

Blue Anchor

(3.6 miles, 5.8 km, direction SE)

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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Stoney Street

Luccombe

(4.1 miles, 6.7 km, direction W)

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

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Pooltown near Kingsbridge, Somerset

Pooltown

(5.5 miles, 8.9 km, direction S)

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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Porlock Bus service.

Porlock

(5.5 miles, 8.9 km, direction W)

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

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Porlock Weir

Porlock Weir

(7.1 miles, 11.5 km, direction W)

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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Culbone Church (St Breuno's)

Culbone

(8.3 miles, 13.3 km, direction W)

A small hamlet that is not accessible by car. St Culbone's Church is the smallest parish church in England...

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

Winsford

(8.4 miles, 13.5 km, direction SW)

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

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St Etheldreda or St Audries Church, West Quantoxhead

West Quantoxhead

(9.1 miles, 14.7 km, direction E)

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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Dunster Watermill

(2.0 miles, 3.3 km, direction SE)

Fully restored 18th century working watermill...

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Dunster - Village & Castle (1) - June 2003

Dunster Castle & Garden

(2.0 miles, 3.3 km, direction SE)

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

(7.1 miles, 11.5 km, direction SE)

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Porlock Bay

Exmoor National Park

(9.2 miles, 14.8 km, direction SW)

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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Quantock Hills

Quantock Hills

(9.9 miles, 15.9 km, direction E)

This beautiful range of hills is a part of England where stags and deer can still be seen roaming freely. In many ways the.....

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Halsway Manor Children's Festival

Halsway Manor

(10.8 miles, 17.4 km, direction SE)

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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Tarr Steps, Dulverton, Somerset, dating from 1000 BC

Tarr Steps

(11.1 miles, 17.8 km, direction SW)

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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Nash Lighthouse

(13.9 miles, 22.3 km, direction N)

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Coleridge Cottage, Nether Stowey

Coleridge Cottage

(14.0 miles, 22.6 km, direction E)

Home of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge...

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Watersmeet near Lynmouth, North Devon

Watersmeet

(14.3 miles, 23.0 km, direction W)

This is a delightful fishing lodge from 1823 located at the picturesque spot in the East Lyn Valley where the waters of the River.....

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