Somerset

Somerset is a predominantly rural county in the in . The county is home to the Glastonbury Festival, one of the UK's major music festivals.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bridgewater Railway Station and Church of St Mary, North Petherton.

Railway station
Bridgwater railway station serves the town of in , . It is on the Bristol to Taunton Line between the stations of and , 53 miles 16 chains from .

Church
The Church of St Mary in , , England dates from the 15th century and has been designated as a grade I listed building. It is on the Heritage at Risk Register due to the condition of the roof and north aisle parapet.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bridgwater and Taunton.

Photo: Alex Liivet, CC0.
is a town in . Notable buildings include the Church of St Mary and Blake Museum, which is a largely restored house in Blake Street and was the birthplace of Admiral Blake in 1598.

is the county town of , a county in the south-west of . has several landmarks room its thousand-year history, and is famous for its cider.

Village
is a village and civil parish in , England, situated 2 miles north east of . The parish includes the hamlets of Monkton Heathfield, Bathpool, and Burlinch and the western parts of Coombe and Walford, and had a population of 2,787 at the 2011 census.

Somerset

Latitude
51.0833° or 51° 5′ north
Longitude
-3° or 3° west
Population
588,000
Elevation
69 feet (21 metres)
Abbreviation
“SOM”
Open location code
9C3V32M2+82
Open­Street­Map ID
node 302323949
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
2637532
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In Other Languages

From Breton to Welsh—“Somerset” goes by many names.
  • Breton: Somerset
  • Catalan: Comtat de Somerset
  • Cornish: Gwlas an Hav
  • Dutch: Somerset
  • Esperanto: Somerset
  • Finnish: Somerset
  • French: Somerset
  • German: Somerset
  • Indonesian: Somerset
  • Italian: Somerset
  • Japanese: サマセット州
  • Latin: Somersetensis comitatus
  • Luxembourgish: Somerset
  • Norwegian: Somerset
  • Occitan (post 1500): Somerset
  • Portuguese: Somerset
  • Romanian: Somerset
  • Russian: Сомерсет
  • Slovak: Somerset
  • Spanish: Somerset
  • Swedish: Somerset
  • Welsh: Gwlad yr Haf

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