Bruton
Bruton is a small market town, and civil parish in Somerset, England, on the River Brue and the A359 between Frome and Yeovil. It is 7 miles south-east of Shepton Mallet, just south of Snakelake Hill and Coombe Hill, 10 miles north-west of Gillingham and 12 miles south-west of Frome.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Nigel Freeman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 2,980 residents
- Description: town and parish in Somerset, England
- Also known as: “Bruton, Somerset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bruton Museum and Sexey’s Hospital.
Bruton Museum
Museum
Bruton Museum is a small local museum in Bruton, Somerset, England. The museum is housed in the Dovecote Building, in the towns High Street. The building also contains a tourist information office.
Sexey’s Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hugh Sexey's Hospital in Bruton, Somerset, England was built around 1630 as almshouses. The West Wing and chapel have been designated as a Grade I listed building.
Bruton railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bruton railway station serves a largely rural area in the county of Somerset in England. The station is situated in the market town of Bruton. The station is on the Bristol to Weymouth line some 32.75 miles south of Bath Spa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Redlynch and Batcombe.
Redlynch
Hamlet
Photo: Maurice Pullin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Redlynch is a village and former manor in the civil parish of Bruton, in Somerset, England. The 18th-century church and a folly named The Towers are of architectural interest.
Batcombe
Village
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Batcombe is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated in the steep valley of the River Alham 5 miles south-east of Shepton Mallet and 26 miles south of Bristol. Batcombe is situated 2½ miles north of Bruton.
Yarlington
Village
Photo: Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Yarlington is a village and civil parish, near the source of the River Cam, in the English county of Somerset. Administratively, Yarlington shares a parish council with nearby North Cadbury. Yarlington is situated 4 miles southwest of Bruton.
Bruton
- Categories: civil parish, market town, and locality
- Location: Bruton, South Somerset, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.11216° or 51° 6′ 44″ northLongitude
-2.45333° or 2° 27′ 12″ westPopulation
2,980Elevation
217 feet (66 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB QMVOpen location code
9C3V4G6W+VMOpenStreetMap ID
node 66647250OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Bruton” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Bruton”
- Basque: “Bruton”
- Cebuano: “Bruton”
- Chinese: “Bruton”
- Dutch: “Bruton”
- French: “Bruton”
- Irish: “Bruton”
- Italian: “Bruton”
- Ladin: “Bruton”
- Latin: “Brutonia”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bruton”
- Persian: “بروتون، سامرست”
- Polish: “Bruton”
- Slovenian: “Bruton”
- South Azerbaijani: “بروتون، سامرست”
- Spanish: “Bruton”
- Swedish: “Bruton”
- Turkish: “Bruton”
- Welsh: “Bruton”
- “Bruton”
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Highlights include Bruton Community Library and The Blue Ball Public House.
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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 “Bruton”. Photo: Nigel Freeman, CC BY-SA 2.0.