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Recommended Towns & Villages near Yeovil

Sherborne Old Castle ruins

Sherborne (111 Pictures)

a Historic Market Town in the county of Dorset (5.2 miles, 8.4 km, direction E)

The softly glowing Ham stone of which most of the town properties are built, lends warmth and atmosphere to what is already a unique and attractive place...

Hardy's Dorset

Melbury Osmond (3 Pictures)

a Picturesque Village in the county of Dorset (5.4 miles, 8.7 km, direction S)

A long, winding lane, flanked by grassy banks covered in fern and wild flowers, leads to the picture postcard village of Melbury Osmond..

The Parish Church at Martock, Somerset

Martock (22 Pictures)

a Picturesque Village in the county of Somerset (6.1 miles, 9.8 km, direction W)

The interior of Martock's Ham-stone church is perhaps the grandest in all Somerset, the startling effect of the golden stone against the most lavishly decorated of the county's great tie-beam roofs is simply overwhelming...

Poyntington, Dorset

Poyntington (2 Pictures)

in the county of Dorset (6.4 miles, 10.2 km, direction NE)

This is a delightful small village situated in the picturesque Blackmore Vale where the Dorset and Somerset boundary meets...

Minterne Magna

Minterne Magna (22 Pictures)

in the county of Dorset (9.8 miles, 15.7 km, direction SE)

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Langport

Langport (7 Pictures)

in the county of Somerset (10.8 miles, 17.4 km, direction NW)

This old town cradled at the heart of the Somerset Levels, sits bounded by the soft rolling Somerset countryside...

The Sydling Valley, Dorset

Sydling St Nicholas (22 Pictures)

a Picturesque Village in the county of Dorset (11.5 miles, 18.6 km, direction SE)

This is a particularly scenic village lying deep in a chalk-stream valley between open downs. Every approach to it is beautiful, whether crossing the hills from Cerne Abbas or Maiden Newton, or coming up the waters of the River Cerne between meadows flooded with spring lambs and ponies...

Cerne Abbas, Dorset.

Cerne Abbas (68 Pictures)

a Picturesque Village in the county of Dorset (11.6 miles, 18.6 km, direction SE)

Famous for its huge chalk 'rude' giant, Cerne Abbas is a lovely ancient village in Dorset...

Netherbury

Netherbury (6 Pictures)

in the county of Dorset (11.6 miles, 18.7 km, direction SW)

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A panoramic view of Pilsdon Pen.

Pilsdon (8 Pictures)

in the county of Dorset (13.4 miles, 21.5 km, direction SW)

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Sturminster Newton in Dorset

Sturminster Newton (40 Pictures)

a Historic Market Town in the county of Dorset (14.4 miles, 23.2 km, direction E)

A small attractive Market Town in Dorset...

Glastonbury Abbey

Glastonbury (103 Pictures)

a Historic Market Town in the county of Somerset (14.7 miles, 23.6 km, direction N)

This little town now enjoys world renown for its annual music festival which attracts thousands of visitors from all over the globe. None-the-less, this still remains very much a.....

Hiding

Chard (450 Pictures)

a Historic Market Town in the county of Somerset (15.3 miles, 24.6 km, direction W)

Chard is a small market town in somerset..

A picture of Bridport

Bridport (32 Pictures)

a Historic Market Town in the county of Dorset (15.4 miles, 24.8 km, direction S)

Bridport can be classed as having everything to please the holiday maker, it has a strong nautical atmosphere born of its long association with the sea, and its history as a flourishing rope making town during the great age of sailing ships...

Old brick farm building on staddle stones in Gillingham, Dorset

Gillingham (6 Pictures)

a Historic Market Town in the county of Dorset (16.8 miles, 27.1 km, direction NE)

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West Bay

West Bay (147 Pictures)

a Seaside Town in the county of Dorset (16.9 miles, 27.3 km, direction S)

West Bay nestles at the western end of spectacular Chesil Beach whose billions of pebbles have been a constant source of fascination for centuries...

Burton Bradstock

Burton Bradstock (56 Pictures)

a Picturesque Village in the county of Dorset (17.0 miles, 27.3 km, direction S)

This in one of the most enchanting villages to be found along the sweeping Dorset coast. It has gorgeous little lanes where there are eye catching thatched cottages with walls.....

Church House Shillingstone

Shillingstone (463 Pictures)

a Picturesque Village in the county of Dorset (17.0 miles, 27.3 km, direction E)

A picturesque village in the county of Dorset..

Beach at Seatown, Dorset

Seatown (33 Pictures)

a Seaside Town in the county of Dorset (17.3 miles, 27.9 km, direction SW)

Seatown is a small Hamlet along Dorset's famous Jurassic Coast and is popular with fossil hunters. It has a clean and quiet shingle beach (no dogs allowed) and is a good location.....

Stourton in Wiltshire

Stourton (90 Pictures)

in the county of Wiltshire (17.7 miles, 28.6 km, direction NE)

Stourton is noted for the church dedicated to St. Peter where you can see many memorials to the famous Hoare banking family and for the house which was the families ancestral home...

Recommended attractions near Yeovil

Montacute House

Montacute House (68 Pictures)

(3.5 miles, 5.6 km, direction W)

This is one of the most glittering of all the great Elizabethan mansions in England. It is built of glowing honey-coloured Ham.....

Fleet Air Arm Museum, Somerset

Fleet Air Arm Museum (3 Pictures)

(5.1 miles, 8.2 km, direction N)

The Fleet Air Arm Museum houses Europe's largest Naval aviation collection. Go on-board Concorde and be transported by a.....

Sherborne Abbey at night

Sherborne Abbey (7 Pictures)

(5.6 miles, 9.0 km, direction E)

Without doubt this magnificent Abbey built centuries ago of creamy Ham stone ranks amongst the finest Abbey churches anywhere in.....

Sherborne Old Castle

Sherborne Castle (80 Pictures)

(5.7 miles, 9.1 km, direction E)

Many fascinating tales remain from the time when Sherborne Castle was lived in by Sir Walter Raleigh, a favourite of Elizabeth I......

Lytes Cary Manor, June 2009

Lytes Cary Manor (42 Pictures)

(6.7 miles, 10.8 km, direction N)

Intimate manor house with Arts & Crafts-style garden. Tudor great hall and 14th-century chapel, this was home to medieval.....

Barrington Court, Somerset

Barrington Court (49 Pictures)

(10.0 miles, 16.2 km, direction W)

Barrington Court is an attractive 16th-century house built in the engaging "E" shaped style of the period in mellow Ham Hill.....

Cerne Giant in Cerne Abbas, Dorset.

Cerne Abbas Giant (2 Pictures)

(11.3 miles, 18.2 km, direction SE)

This magnificent figure cut into the turf of a chalk hillside is best viewed from the north of the village. He is known as "The.....

Amur leopard

The Wildlife Park at Cricket St. Thomas (2 Pictures)

(12.4 miles, 19.9 km, direction W)

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Forde Abbey, nr Chard, Somerset. A former Cistercian foundation. Photo taken September 1991.

Forde Abbey (12 Pictures)

(13.9 miles, 22.4 km, direction SW)

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Glastonbury Tor, Glastonbury, Somerset

Glastonbury Tor (37 Pictures)

(14.3 miles, 23.0 km, direction N)

Swirling mists rise over the Somerset Levels, where approaching the town of Glastonbury, suddenly above the mist you catch a.....

Chalice Well Entrance

The Chalice Well Gardens (11 Pictures)

(14.3 miles, 23.0 km, direction N)

There are many associations with Chalice Well covering countless centuries; it is a timeless and sacred place, full of legend,.....

Glastonbury Abbey, Fall 2006

Glastonbury Abbey (95 Pictures)

(14.4 miles, 23.1 km, direction N)

This is believed to be the site of the oldest Christian Church in the world, for centuries it has been the focus of Christian.....

The Nine Stones, Stone Circle in Winterbourne Abbas, Dorset

The Nine Stones (1 Pictures)

(16.7 miles, 26.8 km, direction S)

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Stourhead frozen lake sunset

Stourhead (94 Pictures)

(17.7 miles, 28.5 km, direction NE)

Designed by Henry Hoare II, Stourhead is one of England's most picturesque landscape gardens with classic temples and palladian.....

The Keep Military Museum, Dorchester. Dorset

The Keep Military Museum (15 Pictures)

(17.8 miles, 28.6 km, direction SE)

This exciting keep is the home of the Military Museum of Devon and Dorset. Here visitors with a keen interest in all things.....

The Roman Town House, Dorchester, Dorset

Roman Town House (1 Pictures)

(17.8 miles, 28.6 km, direction SE)

The Roman Town House was a discovery of the 1930's. From excavations beneath the ground came a rich feast of Roman history that.....

Wells Cathedral in Wells, Somerset

Wells Cathedral (99 Pictures)

(18.1 miles, 29.2 km, direction N)

Wells Cathedral is the most perfect example of an ecclesiastical city from the days when the order of life was God, King and.....

Thomas Hardy's cottage in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset

Hardy's Cottage (4 Pictures)

(18.1 miles, 29.2 km, direction SE)

Home of poet and novelist Thomas Hardy until the age of 34. Under the Greenwood Tree and Far from the Madding Crowd were.....

Maiden Castle, Dorset

Maiden Castle (10 Pictures)

(18.5 miles, 29.7 km, direction S)

The finest Iron Age hillfort in Europe, Maiden Castle is the size of 50 football pitches and was first built in 600BC over the.....

Reflection of the Gatehouse in the moat. The Bishops Palace, Wells.

Bishop's Palace, Wells (3 Pictures)

(18.5 miles, 29.8 km, direction N)

The Bishop's Palace in the enchanting tiny cathedral city of Wells where there is a predominance of beautiful buildings, is.....


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