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Lympsham

Lympsham

Lympsham is a village and civil parish six miles west of and six miles south-east of , close to the River Axe in , England. The parish includes the hamlet of Wick where Wick Farmhouse dates from the mid 18th century.
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  • Type: Village with 800 residents
  • Description: village in Somerset, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Lympsham, Somerset”

Places of Interest

Highlights include St Christopher’s Church, Lympsham and Brent Knoll.

Church
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The Church of St Christopher in Lympsham, , England dates from the 15th century, and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. It is known that Bartholomew de England was appointed rector at Lympsham in 1274, although the parish had been given by Ine of Wessex to in 690 remaining part of the Abbey estates until the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539.

Peak
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is a 137-metre-high hill on the Somerset Levels, in , England. It is located roughly halfway between and , 2.5 miles from the coast at . is situated 2 miles south of Lympsham.

Church
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The Church of St Peter and St Paul dominates the village of , , England. It was built in the 14th century, being restored and the chancel shortened in the mid 19th century. is situated 1½ miles north of Lympsham.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East Brent and Bleadon.

Village
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is a village and civil parish, 5 miles west of , , in the south-west of England. The village lies on the north-eastern edge of , a hill that dominates the surrounding level countryside, and is close to the M5 motorway. is situated 1½ miles southeast of Lympsham.

Hamlet
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is a village and civil parish in , England. It is about 4 miles south of and, according to the 2021 census, has a population of 1,149. is situated 1½ miles north of Lympsham.

Village
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, formerly known as South Brent, is a village and civil parish in , England, which lies on the southern edge of – a hill with a height of 137 metres that dominates the low surrounding landscape of the Somerset Levels. is situated 2 miles south of Lympsham.

Lympsham

Latitude
51.28364° or 51° 17′ 1″ north
Longitude
-2.95299° or 2° 57′ 11″ west
Population
800
Elevation
30 feet (9 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB LPM
Open location code
9C3V72MW+FR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29425386
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2643307
Wiki­data ID
Q2441604
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Turkish—“Lympsham” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Lympsham”
  • Chinese: “Lympsham”
  • Dutch: “Lympsham”
  • French: “Lympsham”
  • Irish: “Lympsham”
  • Ladin: “Lympsham”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lympsham”
  • Polish: “Lympsham”
  • Spanish: “Lympsham”
  • Swedish: “Lympsham”
  • Turkish: “Lympsham”
  • “Lympsham”

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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 “Lympsham”. Photo: Adrian and Janet Quantock, CC BY-SA 2.0.