Brent Knoll
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Brent Knoll Camp and Oaktree Arena.
Brent Knoll Camp
Archaeological site
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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.
Oaktree Arena
Stadium
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The Oaktree Arena was a speedway racing track located near Highbridge, Somerset, England. It is 300 metres in length, with banking around the edge for spectators and is built alongside the M5 motorway.
St Christopher’s Church, Lympsham
Church
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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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brent Knoll and East Brent.
Brent Knoll
Village
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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.
East Brent
Village
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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.
Lympsham
Village
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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.
Brent Knoll
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 456 feet
- Description: hill on the Somerset Levels, in Somerset, England
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: East Brent, Sedgemoor District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.25404° or 51° 15′ 15″ northLongitude
-2.94582° or 2° 56′ 45″ westElevation
456 feet (139 metres)Open location code
9C3V7333+JMOpenStreetMap ID
node 311085611OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Brent Knoll” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Brent Knoll”
- Cebuano: “Brent Knoll”
- Dutch: “Brent Knoll”
- German: “Brent Knoll”
- Ladin: “Brent Knoll”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brent Knoll”
- Polish: “Brent Knoll”
- Swedish: “Brent Knoll”
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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 “Brent Knoll”. Photo: Kicior99, CC BY-SA 4.0.