Coleford
Coleford is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated on the Mells River in the Mendip Hills five miles west of Frome. The parish has a population of 2,313 in 2011.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,370 residents
- Description: village in Somerset, England, UK
- Also known as: “Coleford, Somerset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include King’s Head Inn and Church of St Giles, Leigh-on-Mendip.
Church of St Giles, Leigh-on-Mendip
Church
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The Church of St Giles in Leigh-on-Mendip, Somerset, England, dates from around 1350, and was rebuilt around 1500. It is a Grade 1 listed building, with an unusual faceless clock.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kilmersdon and Ashwick.
Kilmersdon
Village
Photo: Maurice Pullin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kilmersdon is a village and civil parish on the north eastern slopes of the Mendip Hills in Somerset between the towns of Radstock and Frome. It is located on the B3139 between Wells and Trowbridge in Wiltshire. Kilmersdon is situated 2 miles north of Coleford.
Ashwick
Hamlet
Photo: Lyn Yates, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ashwick is a village in Somerset, England, about three miles north of Shepton Mallet and seven miles east from Wells. It has also been a civil parish since 1826. Ashwick is situated 3 miles west of Coleford.
Haydon
Hamlet
Photo: Maurice Pullin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Haydon is a village lying between Radstock and Kilmersdon in Somerset, England. It is 1 mile south-west of Radstock and 1.5 miles north-east of Kilmersdon. Haydon is situated 3 miles north of Coleford.
Coleford
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Coleford, Mendip District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.23828° or 51° 14′ 18″ northLongitude
-2.451° or 2° 27′ 4″ westPopulation
2,370Elevation
397 feet (121 metres)Open location code
9C3V6GQX+8HOpenStreetMap ID
node 66729245OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
11592778Wikidata ID
Q613289
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Turkish—“Coleford” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Coleford”
- Cebuano: “Coleford”
- Chinese: “Coleford”
- Dutch: “Coleford”
- French: “Coleford”
- Irish: “Coleford”
- Italian: “Coleford”
- Ladin: “Coleford (Somerset)”
- Ladin: “Coleford”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Coleford (Somerset)”
- Polish: “Coleford”
- Spanish: “Coleford”
- Swedish: “Coleford, Somerset”
- Swedish: “Coleford”
- Turkish: “Coleford, Somerset”
- “Coleford”
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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 “Coleford”. Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.