Somerset
Somerset is a predominantly rural county in the West Country in England. 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.
Bridgewater Railway Station
Railway station
Photo: Mattbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bridgwater railway station serves the town of Bridgwater in Somerset, England. It is on the Bristol to Taunton Line between the stations of Highbridge and Burnham and Taunton, 53 miles 16 chains from Bristol Temple Meads.
Church of St Mary, North Petherton
Church
Photo: trevor willis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of St Mary in North Petherton, Somerset, 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.
Bridgwater
Photo: Alex Liivet, CC0.
Bridgwater is a town in Somerset. 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.
Taunton
Photo: Julia W, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Taunton is the county town of Somerset, a county in the south-west of England. Taunton has several landmarks room its thousand-year history, and is famous for its cider.
West Monkton
Village
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West Monkton is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated 2 miles north east of Taunton. 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
- Type: County with 588,000 residents
- Also known as: “County of Somerset” and “Somersetshire”
- Category: locality
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.0833° or 51° 5′ northLongitude
-3° or 3° westPopulation
588,000Elevation
69 feet (21 metres)Abbreviation
“SOM”Open location code
9C3V32M2+82OpenStreetMap ID
node 302323949OpenStreetMap feature
place=countyGeoNames 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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Localities in the Area
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