Lympsham
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.Places of Interest
Highlights include St Christopher’s Church, Lympsham and Church of St Peter & St Paul, Bleadon.
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.
Church of St Peter & St Paul, Bleadon
Church
Photo: Rodw, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of St Peter and St Paul dominates the village of Bleadon, Somerset, England. It was built in the 14th century, being restored and the chancel shortened in the mid 19th century.
Purn Hill
Grassland
Photo: Rodw, Public domain.
Purn Hill is a 6.1 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the village of Bleadon, Somerset, notified in 1990. The site is a small promontory of Carboniferous Limestone projecting southward from the main Mendip ridge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East Brent and Bleadon.
East Brent
Village
Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Bleadon
Hamlet
Photo: Rodw, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bleadon is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England. It is about 4 miles south of Weston-super-Mare and, according to the 2021 census, has a population of 1,149.
Hutton
Village
Photo: Peter Barrington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hutton is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England. The parish, which has a population of 2,582, is within the unitary authority of North Somerset and located on the western edge of the Mendip Hills, close to Weston-super-Mare. Hutton is situated 2½ miles north of Lympsham.
Lympsham
- Type: Locality
- Location: Sedgemoor District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.288° or 51° 17′ 17″ northLongitude
-2.95° or 2° 56′ 60″ westElevation
20 feet (6 metres)Open location code
9C3V73Q2+52GeoNames ID
7301199
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