East Brent
East Brent is a village and civil parish, 5 miles west of Axbridge, Somerset, in the south-west of England. The village lies on the north-eastern edge of Brent Knoll, a hill that dominates the surrounding level countryside, and is close to the M5 motorway.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 628 residents
- Description: village in Somerset, England
- Also known as: “East Brent, Somerset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Brent Knoll and Brent Knoll Camp.
Brent Knoll
Peak
Photo: Kicior99, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Brent Knoll is a 137-metre-high hill on the Somerset Levels, in Somerset, England. It is located roughly halfway between Weston-super-Mare and Bridgwater, 2.5 miles from the Bristol Channel coast at Burnham-on-Sea.
Brent Knoll Camp
Archaeological site
Photo: steven ashman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brent Knoll Camp is an Iron Age hillfort at Brent Knoll, 3 kilometres from Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, England. It has been designated as a Scheduled Monument, and is now in the care of the National Trust.
St Christopher’s Church, Lympsham
Church
Photo: Geoff Pick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of St Christopher in Lympsham, Somerset, England dates from the 15th century, and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. It is known that Bartholomew de England was appointed rector at Lympsham in 1274, although the parish had been given by Ine of Wessex to Glastonbury Abbey in 690 remaining part of the Abbey estates until the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539. St Christopher’s Church, Lympsham is situated 1½ miles northwest of East Brent.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brent Knoll and Lympsham.
Brent Knoll
Village
Photo: Tim, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brent Knoll, formerly known as South Brent, is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, which lies on the southern edge of Brent Knoll – a hill with a height of 137 metres that dominates the low surrounding landscape of the Somerset Levels.
Lympsham
Village
Photo: Adrian and Janet Quantock, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lympsham is a village and civil parish six miles west of Axbridge and six miles south-east of Weston-super-Mare, close to the River Axe in Somerset, England. The parish includes the hamlet of Wick where Wick Farmhouse dates from the mid 18th century. Lympsham is situated 1½ miles northwest of East Brent.
Loxton
Village
Photo: John Thorn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Loxton is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England. It is close to the M5 motorway in the unitary authority of North Somerset. The parish includes the village of Christon and has a population of 214. Loxton is situated 3 miles northeast of East Brent.
East Brent
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: East Brent, Sedgemoor District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.26316° or 51° 15′ 47″ northLongitude
-2.93474° or 2° 56′ 5″ westPopulation
628Elevation
23 feet (7 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB EBTOpen location code
9C3V7378+74OpenStreetMap ID
node 3991221883OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“East Brent” goes by many names.
- Basque: “East Brent”
- Bengali: “ইস্ট ব্রেন্ট”
- Cebuano: “East Brent”
- Chinese: “East Brent”
- Chinese: “东布雷恩特”
- Chinese: “東布雷恩特”
- Dutch: “East Brent”
- French: “East Brent”
- German: “East Brent”
- Gujarati: “પૂર્વ બ્રેન્ટ”
- Irish: “East Brent”
- Japanese: “東ブレント”
- Kannada: “ಈಸ್ಟ್ ಬ್ರೆಂಟ್”
- Korean: “이스트 브렌트”
- Ladin: “East Brent”
- Lithuanian: “Ist Brentas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “East Brent”
- Polish: “East Brent”
- Portuguese: “East Brent”
- Russian: “Ист-Брент”
- Spanish: “East Brent”
- Swedish: “East Brent”
- Tamil: “கிழக்கு ப்ரெண்ட்”
- Telugu: “ఈస్ట్ బ్రెంట్”
- Turkish: “East Brent”
- Urdu: “ایسٹ برینت”
- “East Brent”
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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 “East Brent”. Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.