Dunster
Dunster is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, within the north-eastern boundary of Exmoor National Park. It lies on the Bristol Channel 2.5 miles southeast of Minehead and 20 miles northwest of Taunton.Photo: Arpingstone, Public domain.
- Type: Village with 408 residents
- Description: village, civil parish and former manor within the English county of Somerset
- Also known as: “Dunster (civil parish), Somerset” and “Dunster, Somerset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Yarn Market and Dunster Castle.
Yarn Market
Photo: Herbythyme, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Yarn Market in Dunster, Somerset, England was built in the early 17th century. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building and scheduled monument.
Dunster Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dunster Castle is a former motte and bailey castle, now a country house, in the village of Dunster, Somerset, England. The castle lies on the top of a steep hill called the Tor, and has been fortified since the late Anglo-Saxon period.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Carhampton and Blue Anchor.
Carhampton
Village
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carhampton is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, 4 miles to the east of Minehead. Carhampton civil parish stretches from the Bristol Channel coast inland to Exmoor. The parish has a population of 865.
Blue Anchor
Village
Photo: Mark Percy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Blue Anchor is a seaside village, in the parish of Old Cleeve, close to Carhampton in Somerset, England. The village takes its name from a 17th-century inn; the bay, Blue Anchor Bay, was previously known as Cleeve Bay. Blue Anchor is situated 2 miles east of Dunster.
Minehead
Photo: RobThinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Minehead is a coastal town and civil parish in Somerset, England. It lies on the south bank of the Bristol Channel, 21 miles north-west of the county town of Taunton, 12 miles from the boundary with the county of Devon and close to the Exmoor National Park.
Dunster
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Dunster, West Somerset District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.18442° or 51° 11′ 4″ northLongitude
-3.44425° or 3° 26′ 39″ westPopulation
408Elevation
157 feet (48 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB DNEOpen location code
9C3R5HM4+Q7OpenStreetMap ID
node 29999400OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Dunster” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Dunster”
- Catalan: “Dunster”
- Cebuano: “Dunster”
- Chinese: “Dunster”
- Chinese: “薩默塞特”
- Chinese: “鄧斯特”
- Dutch: “Dunster”
- French: “Dunster”
- German: “Dunster”
- Hebrew: “דנסטר”
- Irish: “Dunster”
- Italian: “Dunster”
- Ladin: “Dunster”
- Latin: “Dunestorum castrum”
- Latin: “Dunster”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dunster”
- Polish: “Dunster”
- Spanish: “Dunster”
- Swedish: “Dunster”
- Turkish: “Dunster”
- Welsh: “Dunster”
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