Wambrook
Wambrook is a village and civil parish in the Blackdown Hills, Somerset, England. The village lies about 2 miles southwest of the town of Chard. The parish includes the hamlets of Higher Wambrook and Lower Wambrook which is sometimes known as Haselcombe.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet with 197 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Somerset, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Wambrook, Somerset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cotley Inn and Chard Museum.
Chard Museum
Museum
Photo: Ken Grainger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chard Museum is a small local museum in Chard, Somerset, England. It opened in 1970, in a converted 16th century listed building, with collections of exhibits about local history and displays related to the lives of notable local residents. Chard Museum is situated 1½ miles northeast of Wambrook.
The Guildhall
Town hall
Photo: RNE, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Guildhall is a town hall and community building in the town of Chard in the English county of Somerset. The Guildhall is situated 2 miles east of Wambrook.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Holy City and Whitestaunton.
Holy City
Hamlet
Photo: Peter Holmes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Holy City is a hamlet in the parish of Chardstock, East Devon, England. It is approximately 5 miles due north of the town of Axminster, and 4 miles from the nearest small town of Chard. Holy City is situated 1½ miles south of Wambrook.
Whitestaunton
Hamlet
Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whitestaunton is a village and civil parish in the county of Somerset, England. The parish includes the hamlet of Northay. It was known simply as Staunton until the 14th century. Whitestaunton is situated 2 miles northwest of Wambrook.
Chard
Chard is a town of 14,000 people in Somerset. The town has a very unusual feature, a stream running along either side of Fore Street. One stream eventually flows into the Bristol Channel and the other reaches the English Channel.
Wambrook
- Categories: village, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Wambrook, South Somerset, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.86239° or 50° 51′ 45″ northLongitude
-3.00462° or 3° 0′ 17″ westPopulation
197Elevation
489 feet (149 metres)Open location code
9C2RVX6W+X5OpenStreetMap ID
node 313207789OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2634819Wikidata ID
Q767517
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Wambrook” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Wambrook”
- Chinese: “Wambrook”
- Dutch: “Wambrook”
- French: “Wambrook”
- Irish: “Wambrook”
- Ladin: “Wambrook”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wambrook”
- Persian: “وام برووک”
- Polish: “Wambrook”
- Swedish: “Wambrook”
- Turkish: “Wambrook”
- “Wambrook”
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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 “Wambrook”. Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.