Wedmore
Wedmore is a large village and civil parish in the county of Somerset, England. It is situated on raised ground, in the Somerset Levels between the River Axe and River Brue, often called the Isle of Wedmore.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,410 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Somerset, England, UK
- Also known as: “Wedmore, Somerset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Mary’s Church, Wedmore and The George Hotel.
St Mary’s Church, Wedmore
Church
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of St Mary in Wedmore, Somerset, England is predominantly from the 15th century, although some 12th- and 13th-century work survives. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.
Hugh Sexey Church of England Middle School
School
Photo: Adrian and Janet Quantock, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hugh Sexey Church of England Middle School, formerly known as Sexey's School and Sexey's Grammar School, is a coeducational middle school located in Blackford near Wedmore, Somerset, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stone Allerton and Westhay.
Stone Allerton
Hamlet
Photo: David Purchase, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stone Allerton is a hamlet, which is situated 3 miles northwest of Wedmore.
Westhay
Village
Westhay is a village in Somerset, England. It is situated in the parish of Meare, 4 miles north-west of Glastonbury on the Somerset Levels. The name means 'The west field that is enclosed by hedges' from the Old English west and haga. Westhay is situated 3½ miles south of Wedmore.
Draycott
Village
Photo: Adrian and Janet Quantock, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Draycott is a village in Somerset, England, neighbouring the village of Cheddar on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is now the larger village in the civil parish of Rodney Stoke. Draycott is situated 3½ miles northeast of Wedmore.
Wedmore
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Wedmore, Sedgemoor District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.2255° or 51° 13′ 32″ northLongitude
-2.81144° or 2° 48′ 41″ westPopulation
1,410Elevation
82 feet (25 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB WEOOpen location code
9C3V65GQ+6COpenStreetMap ID
node 1390079978OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Turkish—“Wedmore” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Wedmore”
- Cebuano: “Wedmore”
- Chinese: “Wedmore”
- Dutch: “Wedmore”
- French: “Wedmore”
- Irish: “Wedmore”
- Italian: “Wedmore”
- Ladin: “Wedmore”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wedmore”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wedmore”
- Norwegian: “Wedmore”
- Persian: “ودمور”
- Polish: “Wedmore”
- Spanish: “Wedmore”
- Swedish: “Wedmore”
- Turkish: “Wedmore”
- “Wedmore”
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Highlights include Wedmore Baptist Church and Wedmore Methodist Church.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Wedmore”. Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.