Brompton Regis
Brompton Regis is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England about 5 miles north-east of Dulverton. It is situated on the River Pulham in the Brendon Hills within the Exmoor National Park, close to Wimbleball Lake, a water supply reservoir constructed in the 1970s and completed in 1979.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Graham Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 416 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Somerset, England
- Also known as: “Brompton Regis, Somerset” and “Kings Brompton”
Places of Interest
Highlights include The George Inn and Wimbleball Lake.
Wimbleball Lake
Reservoir
Photo: Adrian Boliston, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wimbleball Lake on Exmoor in Somerset, England, is a water supply reservoir constructed in the 1970s and completed in 1979. The 161 feet high dam is of concrete buttress construction and impounds the River Haddeo to provide a water storage capacity of some 21,000 megalitres over an area of 374 acres. Wimbleball Lake is situated 1½ miles east of Brompton Regis.
Haddon Hill
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Haddon Hill is a prominent east–west aligned ridge in west Somerset, England, close to Hartford within the civil parish of Brompton Regis. It lies on the south-eastern fringe of Exmoor National Park though is separated from the Exmoor massif itself by the… Haddon Hill is situated 2 miles south of Brompton Regis.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bridgetown and Dulverton.
Bridgetown
Hamlet
Exton is a village and civil parish 5 miles north-east of Dulverton and 9 miles south-west of Dunster in Somerset, England. It lies on the River Exe on Exmoor. Bridgetown is situated 2 miles northwest of Brompton Regis.
Dulverton
Town
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Exmoor National Park is situated in the south west of the United Kingdom. It spreads across the north coast of Devon and west Somerset and was one of Britain's first national parks. Dulverton is situated 3 miles southwest of Brompton Regis.
Upton
Hamlet
Photo: Andrew Riley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Upton is a village and civil parish north of Skilgate in Somerset, England. It is situated on a hill above the eastern end of Wimbleball Lake. Upton is situated 3 miles southeast of Brompton Regis.
Brompton Regis
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Brompton Regis, West Somerset District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.07335° or 51° 4′ 24″ northLongitude
-3.49818° or 3° 29′ 53″ westPopulation
416Elevation
787 feet (240 metres)Open location code
9C3R3GF2+8POpenStreetMap ID
node 292296759OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2654581Wikidata ID
Q4973756
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Brompton Regis” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Brompton Regis”
- Dutch: “Brompton Regis”
- French: “Brompton Regis”
- Irish: “Brompton Regis”
- Ladin: “Brompton Regis”
- Polish: “Brompton Regis”
- Swedish: “Brompton Regis”
- “Brompton Regis”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include The Blessed Virgin Mary and Brompton Regis Village Hall.
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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 “Brompton Regis”. Photo: Graham Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.