Overton
Overton is a hamlet in West Monkton, Taunton Deane District, England. Overton is situated nearby to the village West Monkton, as well as near the hamlet Coombe.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Augustine’s Church, West Monkton and St George’s Church, Ruishton.
St Augustine’s Church, West Monkton
Church
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The Church of St Augustine in West Monkton, Somerset, England, dates from the 13th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The parish church has an 88 feet tower, of four stories, with no pinnacles or fancy tracery on the windows, giving the tower a slender, austere look compared to the medieval Somerset towers of churches in nearby Taunton, for example.
St George’s Church, Ruishton
Church
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The Church of St George in Ruishton, Somerset, England was built in the 14th to 16th centuries and has been designated as a grade I listed building. The south chapel was built in the 14th and 15th centuries. St George’s Church, Ruishton is situated 2½ miles south of Overton.
St Michael’s Church
Church
The Church of St Michael, which stands next to the River Tone in Creech St Michael, Somerset, England dates from the 13th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. St Michael’s Church is situated 2 miles south of Overton.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include West Monkton and Thurloxton.
West Monkton
Village
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West Monkton is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated 2 miles north east of Taunton. The parish includes the hamlets of Monkton Heathfield, Bathpool, and Burlinch and the western parts of Coombe and Walford, and had a population of 2,787 at the 2011 census.
Thurloxton
Village
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Thurloxton is a village and civil parish 5 miles north-east of Taunton, and 5 miles south-west of Bridgwater on the south-eastern slopes of the Quantock Hills in the county of Somerset, England.
Cheddon Fitzpaine
Village
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cheddon Fitzpaine is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated on the Quantock Hills 2 miles north of Taunton. The village is situated near the Bristol and Exeter Railway, the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal, and the River Tone and has a population of 1,929. Cheddon Fitzpaine is situated 1½ miles southwest of Overton.
Overton
- Type: Hamlet
- Category: locality
- Location: West Monkton, Taunton Deane District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.05341° or 51° 3′ 12″ northLongitude
-3.04897° or 3° 2′ 56″ westElevation
295 feet (90 metres)Open location code
9C3R3X32+9COpenStreetMap ID
node 86862972OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
13281408
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