Weare
Weare is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, on the River Axe, south of the Mendip Hills. Other settlements in the parish are the village of Lower Weare, the hamlets of Alston Sutton, Brinscombe, and Sparrow Hill, and part of the hamlet of Stone Allerton.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 659 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Somerset, UK
- Also known as: “Weare, Somerset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Gregory’s Church, Weare and Church of St Congar.
St Gregory’s Church, Weare
Church
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The Church of St Gregory in Weare, Somerset, England dates from the 11th century, although most of the building is from the 15th, and has been designated as a grade I listed building.
King John’s Hunting Lodge
Museum
Photo: NotFromUtrecht, CC BY-SA 3.0.
King John's Hunting Lodge is a wool-merchant's house built c. 1460, long after the death of King John in 1216, in Axbridge, a town in the English county of Somerset. King John’s Hunting Lodge is situated 1½ miles northeast of Weare.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stone Allerton and Axbridge.
Axbridge
Town
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Axbridge is a town in Somerset, England, on the River Axe, near the southern edge of the Mendip Hills. Its population according to the 2011 census was 2,057. Axbridge is situated 1½ miles northeast of Weare.
Cheddar
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Cheddar is a large village, with the largest gorge and caves in Britain. It has a population of around 5,800. The village gave its name to Cheddar cheese.
Weare
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Weare, Sedgemoor District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.27062° or 51° 16′ 14″ northLongitude
-2.84269° or 2° 50′ 34″ westPopulation
659Elevation
36 feet (11 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB WAEOpen location code
9C3V75C4+6WOpenStreetMap ID
node 311086193OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Weare” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Weare”
- Chinese: “Weare”
- Dutch: “Weare”
- French: “Weare”
- Irish: “Weare”
- Ladin: “Weare”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Weare”
- Polish: “Weare”
- Swedish: “Weare, England”
- Turkish: “Weare, Somerset”
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Localities in the Area
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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 “Weare”. Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.