North Somerset
North Somerset is a unitary authority in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England. The council is based in Weston-super-Mare, the area's largest town.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: unitary authority area in England with 212,000 residents
- Description: unitary authority area in Somerset, England
- Also known as: “Woodspring”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Winscombe Library and St Andrew’s Church, Banwell.
St Andrew’s Church, Banwell
Church
The mainly 15th-century parish Church of St Andrew in Banwell, Somerset, England, is a Grade I listed building. The body of the church has a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles and a rather short chancel, considering the proportions of the rest of the church.
Church of St John the Baptist, Churchill
Church
Photo: Andrew Riley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of St John the Baptist in Churchill, Somerset, England, was largely built around 1360 and is a Grade I listed building. There was a Norman chapel on this site in 1180, from which the nave has survived into the present church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Winscombe and Banwell.
Winscombe
Village
Photo: Robert Cutts, CC BY 2.0.
Winscombe is a large village in the North Somerset unitary district of Somerset, England, close to the settlements of Axbridge and Cheddar, on the western edge of the Mendip Hills, 7 miles southeast of Weston-super-Mare and 14 miles southwest of Bristol.
Banwell
Village
Banwell is a village and civil parish on the River Banwell in the North Somerset district of Somerset, England. Its population was 3,251 according to the 2021 census.
Churchill
Village
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Churchill is a village and civil parish in North Somerset, England. It lies on the western edge of the Mendip Hills, about 8 miles east of Weston-super-Mare, and about 15 miles south-west of Bristol.
North Somerset
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“North Somerset” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Հյուսիսային Սոմերսեթ”
- Belarusian: “Паўночны Сомерсет”
- Belarusian: “Паўночны Сомэрсэт”
- Bengali: “নর্থ সমারসেট”
- Breton: “Norzh Somerset”
- Bulgarian: “Северен Съмърсет”
- Cebuano: “North Somerset”
- Chinese: “North Somerset”
- Chinese: “北森麻錫郡”
- Chinese: “北索美塞特”
- Chinese: “北萨默塞特郡”
- Danish: “North Somerset”
- Dutch: “North Somerset”
- Esperanto: “North Somerset”
- French: “North Somerset”
- French: “Somerset du Nord”
- German: “North Somerset”
- Gujarati: “ઉત્તર સોમરસેટ”
- Italian: “North Somerset”
- Japanese: “ノース・サマセット”
- Japanese: “ノースサマセット”
- Japanese: “北サマセット”
- Kannada: “ಉತ್ತರ ಸಾಮರ್ಸೆಟ್”
- Korean: “노스서머싯”
- Latvian: “Ziemeļsomerseta”
- Luxembourgish: “Nord Somerset”
- Min Nan Chinese: “North Somerset”
- Northern Frisian: “North Somerset”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “North Somerset”
- Norwegian: “North Somerset”
- Persian: “سامرست شمالی”
- Polish: “North Somerset”
- Portuguese: “North Somerset”
- Romanian: “North Somerset”
- Russian: “Северный Сомерсет”
- Slovenian: “North Somerset”
- Spanish: “North Somerset”
- Spanish: “Somerset del Norte”
- Swedish: “North Somerset”
- Tamil: “வட சொமேர்செட்”
- Telugu: “ఉత్తర సోమర్సెట్”
- Ukrainian: “Північний Сомерсет”
- Urdu: “شمالی سامرسیٹ”
- Urdu: “شمالی سمرسیٹ”
- Urdu: “نارتھ سومیرسیت”
- Welsh: “Gogledd Gwlad yr Haf”
- “North Somerset”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Sandford and Towerhead.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sandford Hill and Banwell Plain.
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