Dunkery Hill
Dunkery Beacon at the summit of Dunkery Hill is the highest point on Exmoor and in Somerset, England. It is also the highest point in southern England outside of Dartmoor.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mark J, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,703 feet
- Description: summit of Dunkery Hill
- Also known as: “Dunkery Beacon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stoke Pero Church and Nutscale Reservoir.
Stoke Pero Church
Church
Photo: Rob Farrow, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stoke Pero Church in Stoke Pero, Somerset, England was built in the 13th century. It is a Grade II* listed building. Standing 1,013 feet above sea level, it is the highest church on Exmoor.
Nutscale Reservoir
Reservoir
Nutscale Reservoir is a reservoir located in Exmoor in north west Somerset, England. It was intended to supply the town of Minehead and nearby Porlock and Porlock Weir.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Luccombe and Wootton Courtenay.
Luccombe
Village
Photo: Martin Southwood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Luccombe or Luckham is a village and civil parish in the Exmoor National Park in the English county of Somerset. It at the foot of the moor's highest hill, the 1,750 feet Dunkery Beacon, and is about one mile south of the A39 road between Porlock and Minehead.
Wootton Courtenay
Village
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wootton Courtenay is a village and civil parish on Exmoor in Somerset, England. The parish includes the hamlets of Brockwell and Huntscott. The village lies on the route of the Macmillan Way West and the Celtic Way Exmoor Option.
Exford
Village
Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Exford is a rural village at the centre of Exmoor National Park, 7 miles north-west of Dulverton, and 10 miles south-west of Minehead, in Somerset, England.
Dunkery Hill
- Category: landform
- Location: Cutcombe, West Somerset District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.16279° or 51° 9′ 46″ northLongitude
-3.58668° or 3° 35′ 12″ westElevation
1,703 feet (519 metres)Open location code
9C3R5C77+48OpenStreetMap ID
node 431363823OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Dunkery Hill” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Dunkery Beacon”
- French: “Dunkery Hill”
- Hebrew: “דאנקרי ביקון”
- Japanese: “ダンカリー峰”
- Latin: “Dunkery Beacon”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dunkery Beacon”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dunkery Hill”
- Polish: “Dunkery Hill”
- Swedish: “Dunkery Beacon”
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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 “Dunkery Hill”. Photo: Mark J, CC BY-SA 2.0.