Spaxton
Spaxton is a small village and civil parish on the Quantocks in Somerset, South West England. The village is about 5 miles west of Bridgwater. Other settlements in the parish include Charlynch, Courtway, Four Forks, Gothelney Green, Merridge, and Splatt.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet with 321 residents
- Description: village in Somerset, England, UK
- Also known as: “Spaxton, Somerset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Margaret’s Church and Hawkridge Reservoir.
St Margaret’s Church
Church
The Church of St Margaret in Spaxton, Somerset, England has some parts from the 12th and 13th centuries but is predominantly from the 15th century, and was restored in 1895.
Hawkridge Reservoir
Reservoir
Hawkridge Reservoir is a reservoir near Spaxton, Somerset, England. The inflow is from several streams in the Quantock Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty including Peart Water, which continues below the reservoir in a northeast direction to Spaxton, where it enters the Ashford Reservoir.
Ashford Reservoir
Reservoir
Photo: Martin Southwood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ashford Reservoir is a small reservoir on the eastern side of the Quantock Hills near the villages of Charlynch and Spaxton in Somerset, England. It was constructed 1934 as a water supply reservoir for Bridgwater.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Enmore and Merridge.
Enmore
Village
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Enmore is a village and civil parish 2 miles west of Bridgwater on the Quantock Hills in Somerset, England. The parish includes the hamlet of Bare Ash. Enmore is situated 1½ miles southeast of Spaxton.
Merridge
Hamlet
Photo: Ken Grainger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Spaxton is a small village and civil parish on the Quantocks in Somerset, South West England. The village is about 5 miles west of Bridgwater. Other settlements in the parish include Charlynch, Courtway, Four Forks, Gothelney Green, Merridge, and Splatt. Merridge is situated 1½ miles southwest of Spaxton.
Aley
Hamlet
Photo: Martin Southwood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Aley is a hamlet, which is situated 2½ miles west of Spaxton.
Spaxton
- Categories: village, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Spaxton, Sedgemoor District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.12381° or 51° 7′ 26″ northLongitude
-3.10897° or 3° 6′ 32″ westPopulation
321Elevation
240 feet (73 metres)Open location code
9C3R4VFR+GCOpenStreetMap ID
node 1872061581OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2637251Wikidata ID
Q2068410
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Spaxton” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Spaxton”
- Chinese: “Spaxton”
- Dutch: “Spaxton”
- French: “Spaxton”
- Irish: “Spaxton”
- Ladin: “Spaxton”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Spaxton”
- Persian: “اسپاکستون”
- Polish: “Spaxton”
- Swedish: “Spaxton”
- Turkish: “Spaxton”
- “Spaxton”
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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 “Spaxton”. Photo: matthewhartley369, CC BY-SA 2.0.