Oare
Oare is a village and civil parish on Oare Water on Exmoor in Somerset, England. It is located 6 miles east of Lynton and the parish includes the hamlet of Oareford and the village of Culbone which contains its own tiny church.Photo: Maedin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Locality with 50 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Somerset, England, UK
- Also known as: “Oare, Somerset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Mary and Culbone Church.
Church of St Mary
Church
Photo: Marion Dutcher, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Anglican Church of St Mary in Oare, Somerset, England, was built in the 15th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.
Culbone Church
Church
Photo: Richard Mascall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Culbone Church, located in the village of Culbone in Somerset, is said to be the smallest parish church in England. The church, dedicated to the Welsh saint Beuno, has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building and the churchyard cross is Grade II*.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brendon and Culbone.
Brendon
Village
Photo: Peter French, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brendon is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Brendon and Countisbury, in the North Devon district, in the county of Devon, England. Brendon is situated 3 miles west of Oare.
Culbone
Hamlet
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Culbone is a hamlet consisting of little more than the parish church and a few houses, in the civil parish of Oare in the Exmoor National Park, Somerset, England.
Malmsmead
Hamlet
Photo: Kevin Young, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Malmsmead is a hamlet on the border between the English counties of Devon and Somerset. The nearest town is Lynton, which lies approximately 4.7 miles west of the hamlet. The hamlet is situated in the Doone Valley within the Exmoor National Park.
Oare
- Categories: civil parish and village
- Location: West Somerset District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Turkish—“Oare” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Oare (Somerset)”
- Basque: “Oare”
- Cebuano: “Oare”
- Chinese: “Oare”
- Dutch: “Oare”
- French: “Oare”
- Irish: “Oare”
- Ladin: “Oare (Somerset)”
- Ladin: “Oare”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Oare (Somerset)”
- Polish: “Oare”
- Swedish: “Oare, Somerset”
- Swedish: “Oare”
- Turkish: “Oare, Somerset”
- “Oare”
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