Timberscombe
Timberscombe is a village and civil parish on the River Avill 2.5 miles south-west of Dunster, and 5.5 miles south of Minehead within the Exmoor National Park in Somerset, England. The parish includes the hamlet of Bickham.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 444 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Somerset, England, UK
- Also known as: “Timberscombe (civil parish), Somerset”, “Timberscombe, Somerset”, and “Timbersoombe”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Petrock’s Church and The Lion Inn.
St Petrock’s Church
Church
Photo: Robin Lucas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of St Petrock in Timberscombe, Somerset, England has a 15th-century tower, the rest of the building dating from 1708. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.
Dunster Castle
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Dunster Castle is a former motte and bailey castle, now a country house, in the village of Dunster, Somerset, England. The castle lies on the top of a steep hill called the Tor, and has been fortified since the late Anglo-Saxon period. Dunster Castle is situated 2½ miles east of Timberscombe.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wootton Courtenay and Dunster.
Wootton Courtenay
Village
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wootton Courtenay is a village and civil parish on Exmoor in Somerset, England. The parish includes the hamlets of Brockwell and Huntscott. The village lies on the route of the Macmillan Way West and the Celtic Way Exmoor Option.
Dunster
Village
Photo: Arpingstone, Public domain.
Dunster is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, within the north-eastern boundary of Exmoor National Park. It lies on the Bristol Channel 2.5 miles southeast of Minehead and 20 miles northwest of Taunton. Dunster is situated 2½ miles northeast of Timberscombe.
Minehead
Photo: RobThinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Minehead is a coastal town and civil parish in Somerset, England. It lies on the south bank of the Bristol Channel, 21 miles north-west of the county town of Taunton, 12 miles from the boundary with the county of Devon and close to the Exmoor National Park.
Timberscombe
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Timberscombe, West Somerset District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.16887° or 51° 10′ 8″ northLongitude
-3.49493° or 3° 29′ 42″ westPopulation
444Elevation
262 feet (80 metres)Open location code
9C3R5G94+G2OpenStreetMap ID
node 291329054OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2635805Wikidata ID
Q1955057
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Timberscombe” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Timberscombe”
- Chinese: “Timberscombe”
- Dutch: “Timberscombe”
- French: “Timberscombe”
- Irish: “Timberscombe”
- Italian: “Timberscombe”
- Ladin: “Timberscombe”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Timberscombe”
- Polish: “Timberscombe”
- Swedish: “Timberscombe”
- Turkish: “Timberscombe”
- “Timberscombe”
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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 “Timberscombe”. Photo: Robin Lucas, CC BY-SA 2.0.