Somerset Village
Somerset is a small, unincorporated village in the northwest area of Bermuda, located in Sandys Parish. It lies in the northern half of Somerset Island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,000 residents
- Description: settlement in Bermuda
- Also known as: “Somerset” and “Somerset Village, Bermuda”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Current Island and Bethell’s Island.
HMS Vixen
Disaster remains
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
HMS Vixen was an armoured composite gunboat, the only ship of her class, and the third ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name. She was the first Royal Navy vessel to have twin propellers.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Royal Naval Dockyard and Southampton Parish.
Royal Naval Dockyard
Village
Photo: SeanMD80, CC BY-SA 3.0.
HMD Bermuda was the principal base of the Royal Navy in the Western Atlantic between American independence and the Cold War. The Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda had occupied a useful position astride the homeward leg taken by many European vessels from the New World since before its settlement by England in 1609. Royal Naval Dockyard is situated 5 km northeast of Somerset Village.
Southampton Parish
Southampton Parish is one of the nine parishes of Bermuda. At the southwest of the island chain, it occupies all of the western part of the main island, except for the westernmost tip.
Spanish Point
Village
Spanish Point is a prominent headland in Bermuda, located in Pembroke Parish five kilometres to the northwest of the capital Hamilton. It forms the eastern coast at the entrance to the Great Sound. Spanish Point is situated 6 km east of Somerset Village.
Somerset Village
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Sandys Parish, Bermuda, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.29621° or 32° 17′ 46″ northLongitude
-64.86995° or 64° 52′ 12″ westPopulation
1,000Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)Open location code
874Q74WJ+F2OpenStreetMap ID
node 316781764OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3573029Wikidata ID
Q2879955
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Somerset Village” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سومرست”
- Cebuano: “Somerset”
- Dutch: “Somerset Village, Bermuda”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سومرست”
- Japanese: “サマセット村”
- Japanese: “ソメーセット村”
- Polish: “Somerset”
- Russian: “Сомерсет”
- Sinhala: “සමර්සෙට් ගම්මානය, බර්මියුඩාව”
- Spanish: “Somerset Village”
- Swedish: “Somerset”
- Ukrainian: “Сомерсет”
- Urdu: “سمرسیٹ ولیج، برمودا”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Rubis Bunkering Wharf and Kings Wharf Cruise Ship Terminal.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church and Somerset Methodist Church.
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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 “Somerset Village”. Photo: Aodhdubh, CC BY-SA 3.0.