Venn
Venn is a hamlet in Brompton Regis, West Somerset District, England. Venn is situated nearby to the locality The Balls, as well as near Hiccombe Wood.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Haddon Hill and Wimbleball Lake.
Haddon Hill
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Haddon Hill is a prominent east–west aligned ridge in west Somerset, England, close to Hartford within the civil parish of Brompton Regis. It lies on the south-eastern fringe of Exmoor National Park though is separated from the Exmoor massif itself by the…
Wimbleball Lake
Reservoir
Photo: Adrian Boliston, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wimbleball Lake on Exmoor in Somerset, England, is a water supply reservoir constructed in the 1970s and completed in 1979. The 161 feet high dam is of concrete buttress construction and impounds the River Haddeo to provide a water storage capacity of some 21,000 megalitres over an area of 374 acres.
Bury Castle
Archaeological site
Photo: David Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bury Castle near Brompton Regis in the English county of Somerset was an Iron Age univallate hillfort which was reused with the creation of a motte after the Norman Conquest. It has been designated as a scheduled monument. Bury Castle is situated 2½ miles southwest of Venn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brompton Regis and Upton.
Brompton Regis
Village
Photo: Graham Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brompton Regis is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England about 5 miles north-east of Dulverton. It is situated on the River Pulham in the Brendon Hills within the Exmoor National Park, close to Wimbleball Lake, a water supply reservoir constructed in the 1970s and completed in 1979.
Upton
Hamlet
Photo: Andrew Riley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Upton is a village and civil parish north of Skilgate in Somerset, England. It is situated on a hill above the eastern end of Wimbleball Lake. Upton is situated 2½ miles east of Venn.
Skilgate
Village
Photo: Rabbi WP Thinrod, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Skilgate is a village and civil parish 5 miles east of Dulverton and 8 miles west of Wiveliscombe in Somerset, England. It has a population of 96. The parish, which covers an area of 866 ha, straddles the boundary of the Exmoor National Park lying on the southern edge of the Brendon Hills, and is close to the border with Devon. Skilgate is situated 2½ miles southeast of Venn.
Venn
- Type: Hamlet
- Category: locality
- Location: Brompton Regis, West Somerset District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.06164° or 51° 3′ 42″ northLongitude
-3.49185° or 3° 29′ 31″ westElevation
745 feet (227 metres)Open location code
9C3R3G65+M7OpenStreetMap ID
node 9735900084OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
13265530
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