River Frome
The River Frome is a river in Somerset, England. It rises near Bungalow Farm on Cannwood Lane, south-west of Witham Friary, flows north through Blatchbridge to the town of Frome, and continues in a generally northerly direction passing between the eastern edge of the Mendip Hills and Trowbridge before joining the Bristol Avon at Freshford, below Bradford on Avon.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Somerset, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “River Frome, Somerset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Freshford railway station and Avoncliff railway station.
Freshford railway station
Railway station
Photo: Pierre Terre, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Freshford railway station is a railway station serving the village of Freshford, Bath and North East Somerset, England. It also serves the nearby village of Limpley Stoke in Wiltshire.
Avoncliff railway station
Railway station
Photo: Chris Mytton, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Avoncliff railway station serves the small village of Avoncliff, in Wiltshire, England, together with the nearby villages of Westwood and Winsley, and Turleigh hamlet.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Freshford and Avoncliff.
Freshford
Village
Photo: Pierre Terre, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Freshford is a village and civil parish in the Avon valley 6 miles south-east of Bath, in the county of Somerset, England. The parish has a population of 551.
Avoncliff
Hamlet
Photo: Dave Bevis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Avoncliff is a small village in west Wiltshire, England, in the north of Westwood parish about 1.5 miles southwest of Bradford-on-Avon. It is the point at which the Kennet and Avon canal crosses the river and railway line via the Avoncliff Aqueduct, which was built by John Rennie and chief engineer John Thomas, between 1797 and 1801.
Turleigh
Hamlet
Turleigh is a hamlet in west Wiltshire, England. It lies immediately south of the village of Winsley, overlooking the Avon valley, about 1.2 miles west of Bradford on Avon.
River Frome
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“River Frome” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Frome”
- Cebuano: “River Frome”
- Chinese: “弗羅姆河”
- Dutch: “River Frome”
- French: “Frome”
- German: “River Frome”
- Slovenian: “Frome”
- Swedish: “River Frome”
- Welsh: “Afon Frome”
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