Blue Anchor
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mark Percy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Somerset, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Blue Anchor, Somerset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Blue Anchor railway station and Church of St John the Baptist.
Blue Anchor railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Blue Anchor railway station is situated in the seaside village of Blue Anchor, Somerset, England, close to the larger village of Carhampton. It is on the West Somerset Railway, a heritage railway, and it houses one of the two museums of the West Somerset Railway Heritage Trust.
Church of St John the Baptist
Church
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Church of St Nicholas, Withycombe
Church
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of St Nicholas in Withycombe, Somerset, England dates from the 13th century and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Carhampton and Old Cleeve.
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.
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.
Dunster
Village
Photo: Arpingstone, Public domain.
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. Dunster is situated 2 miles west of Blue Anchor.
Blue Anchor
- Category: locality
- Location: Carhampton, West Somerset District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.17912° or 51° 10′ 45″ northLongitude
-3.40331° or 3° 24′ 12″ westElevation
62 feet (19 metres)Open location code
9C3R5HHW+JMOpenStreetMap ID
node 4216074689OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Polish—“Blue Anchor” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Blue Anchor”
- Dutch: “Blue Anchor”
- French: “Blue Anchor”
- Irish: “Blue Anchor”
- Polish: “Blue Anchor”
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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 “Blue Anchor”. Photo: Mark Percy, CC BY-SA 2.0.