Meare
Meare is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, 3 miles north-west of Glastonbury on the Somerset Levels. The parish includes the village of Westhay.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,450 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Somerset, England
- Also known as: “Meare, Somerset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ham Wall.
Ham Wall
Nature reserve
Photo: Celuici, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ham Wall is an English wetland National Nature Reserve 4 kilometres west of Glastonbury on the Somerset Levels. It is managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Westhay and Shapwick.
Westhay
Village
Westhay is a village in Somerset, England. It is situated in the parish of Meare, 4 miles north-west of Glastonbury on the Somerset Levels. The name means 'The west field that is enclosed by hedges' from the Old English west and haga.
Shapwick
Village
Photo: Adrian and Janet Quantock, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Shapwick is a village on the Polden Hills overlooking the Somerset Moors, in Somerset, England. It is situated to the west of Glastonbury. Shapwick is situated 3 miles southwest of Meare.
Glastonbury
Photo: fussyonion, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Glastonbury is a small town in the English West Country county of Somerset. Glastonbury is best known for the myths and legends surrounding both Glastonbury Tor, a prominent hill rising up from the surrounding flat landscape; Glastonbury Abbey, which together…
Meare
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Meare, Mendip District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.172° or 51° 10′ 19″ northLongitude
-2.78313° or 2° 46′ 59″ westPopulation
1,450Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)Open location code
9C3V56C8+RPOpenStreetMap ID
node 29492104OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2642844Wikidata ID
Q3055769
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Turkish—“Meare” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Меаре”
- Cebuano: “Meare”
- Chinese: “Meare”
- Dutch: “Meare”
- French: “Meare”
- Irish: “Meare”
- Ladin: “Meare”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Meare”
- Polish: “Meare”
- Swedish: “Meare”
- Turkish: “Meare”
- “Meare”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Meare Independent Evangelical Church and St Mary & All Saints.
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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 “Meare”. Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.