Woolcotts
Woolcotts is a hamlet in Brompton Regis, West Somerset District, England. Woolcotts is situated nearby to the locality Bryant’s Bridge, as well as near Bessom Cross.Places of Interest
Highlights include Wimbleball Lake and Haddon Hill.
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.
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… Haddon Hill is situated 2 miles south of Woolcotts.
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 southeast of Woolcotts.
Bridgetown
Hamlet
Exton is a village and civil parish 5 miles north-east of Dulverton and 9 miles south-west of Dunster in Somerset, England. It lies on the River Exe on Exmoor. Bridgetown is situated 3 miles west of Woolcotts.
Woolcotts
- 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
51.07376° or 51° 4′ 26″ northLongitude
-3.47577° or 3° 28′ 33″ westElevation
863 feet (263 metres)Open location code
9C3R3GFF+GMOpenStreetMap ID
node 9715775411OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
13274286
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Localities in the Area
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