Bishops Lydeard
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- Type: Village with 3,950 residents
- Description: village in Somerset, England, UK
- Also known as: “Bishop’s Lydeard” and “Bishops Lydeard, Somerset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bishops Lydeard Mill and Rural Life Museum and Bishops Lydeard railway station.
Bishops Lydeard Mill and Rural Life Museum
Museum
Photo: Jim Woodward-Nutt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Bishops Lydeard Mill and Rural Life Museum is a historic building and museum in Bishops Lydeard, Somerset, England. The building dates from the 18th century, and was extended in the early 19th century with the addition of a millhouse.
Bishops Lydeard railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bishops Lydeard railway station is a heritage railway station in the village of Bishops Lydeard, Somerset, England. It is the southern terminus for regular trains on the West Somerset Railway.
Lydeard House
House
Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lydeard House in Bishops Lydeard, Somerset, England was built in the mid 18th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ash Priors and Cotford St Luke.
Ash Priors
Village
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Ash Priors is a village and parish in Somerset, England, situated 5 miles north west of Taunton. The village has a population of 155.
Cotford St Luke
Village
Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cotford St Luke is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England. It is located approximately 2 miles northwest of Norton Fitzwarren and 1.5 miles south of Bishops Lydeard.
Combe Florey
Village
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Combe Florey is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated 6 miles northwest of Taunton, on the West Somerset Railway. The village has a population of 261. Combe Florey is situated 1½ miles northwest of Bishops Lydeard.
Bishops Lydeard
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Bishop’s Lydeard, Taunton Deane District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.05769° or 51° 3′ 28″ northLongitude
-3.18737° or 3° 11′ 15″ westPopulation
3,950Elevation
184 feet (56 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BPYOpen location code
9C3R3R57+33OpenStreetMap ID
node 269696249OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Turkish—“Bishops Lydeard” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Bishops Lydeard”
- Cebuano: “Bishops Lydeard”
- Chinese: “Bishops Lydeard”
- Dutch: “Bishops Lydeard”
- French: “Bishops Lydeard”
- German: “Bishops Lydeard”
- Irish: “Bishops Lydeard”
- Italian: “Bishops Lydeard”
- Ladin: “Bishops Lydeard”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bishops Lydeard”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bishops Lydeard”
- Norwegian: “Bishops Lydeard”
- Persian: “بیشاپس لایدرد”
- Polish: “Bishops Lydeard”
- Spanish: “Bishops Lydeard”
- Swedish: “Bishops Lydeard”
- Turkish: “Bishops Lydeard”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Bishops Lydeard”. Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.