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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.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Bridgewater Railway Station and Church of St Peter, North Newton.

Railway station
Photo: Mattbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bridgwater railway station serves the town of in , . It is on the Bristol to Taunton Line and is operated by Great Western Railway.

Church
Photo: Chris Andrews, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Anglican Church of St Peter in North Newton within the English county of has a tower believed to date from Saxon times. It is a Grade II* listed building.

Church
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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.

Photo: Julia W, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.

Town
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is a town and civil parish in , England, situated on the edge of the eastern foothills of the , and close to the edge of the Somerset Levels.

Somerset

Latitude
51.0833° or 51° 5′ north
Longitude
-3° or 3° west
Population
549,000
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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Satellite Map

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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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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include North Petherton Rugby Club and North Newton Village Hall.

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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 Wikivoyage page “Somerset”. Photo: matthewhartley369, CC BY-SA 2.0.