Carhampton
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 687 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in West Somerset, Somerset, England
- Also known as: “Carhampton (civil parish), Somerset” and “Carhampton, Somerset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St John the Baptist and The Butchers Arms.
Church of St John the Baptist
Church
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The Church of St John the Baptist in Carhampton, Somerset, England is a Grade I listed Anglican church. The first church in the village stood to the east of the present church and was dedicated to St Carannog a Welsh monk of the 6th century.
Dunster Castle
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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 Blue Anchor and Dunster.
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.
Dunster
Village
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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.
Old Cleeve
Village
Photo: Martin Southwood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Old Cleeve is a village 5 miles south east of Minehead in Somerset, England, and also a civil parish. The civil parish of Old Cleeve covers an area of 2,092 hectares and includes the villages of Old Cleeve, Roadwater and Washford as well as hamlets such as Bilbrook, Chapel Cleeve, Golsoncott and Leighland Chapel. Old Cleeve is situated 2 miles east of Carhampton.
Carhampton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Carhampton, West Somerset District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.17315° or 51° 10′ 23″ northLongitude
-3.42153° or 3° 25′ 18″ westPopulation
687Elevation
108 feet (33 metres)Open location code
9C3R5HFH+79OpenStreetMap ID
node 291362945OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2653792Wikidata ID
Q2567667
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Turkish—“Carhampton” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Carhampton”
- Cebuano: “Carhampton”
- Chinese: “Carhampton”
- Dutch: “Carhampton”
- Esperanto: “Carhampton”
- French: “Carhampton”
- Irish: “Carhampton”
- Italian: “Carhampton”
- Ladin: “Carhampton”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Carhampton”
- Polish: “Carhampton”
- Spanish: “Carhampton”
- Swedish: “Carhampton”
- Turkish: “Carhampton”
- “Carhampton”
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Notable Places Nearby
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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 “Carhampton”. Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.