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Minehead

Minehead is a coastal town and civil parish in , England. It lies on the south bank of the , 21 miles north-west of the county town of , 12 miles from the boundary with the county of and close to the Exmoor National Park.
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  • Type: Town with 12,000 residents
  • Description: town in Somerset, England
  • Also known as: “Minehead, Somerset”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Minehead railway station and Butlin’s Minehead.

Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is situated in Minehead, Somerset, England. First opened in 1874 as the terminus and headquarters of the Minehead Railway, it was closed by British Rail early in 1971.

Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Butlins Resort Minehead is a holiday camp operated by Butlins, located in Minehead in , England. It opened in 1962 and remains in use today. It was known as Butlin's Minehead until 1987, and as Somerwest World from then until 1999, when it reopened as Butlins Minehead Resort.

Church
Photo: Nigel Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Andrew's Church is a Church of England church in Minehead, , England. Designed by George Edmund Street, it was built in 1877–80 and has been a Grade II* listed building since 1976.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dunster and Wootton Courtenay.

Village
Photo: Arpingstone, Public domain.
is a village and civil parish in , England, within the north-eastern boundary of National Park. It lies on the 2.5 miles southeast of Minehead and 20 miles northwest of . is situated 2 miles southeast of Minehead.

Village
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and civil parish on in , England. The parish includes the hamlets of Brockwell and Huntscott. The village lies on the route of the Macmillan Way West and the Celtic Way Exmoor Option. is situated 2½ miles southwest of Minehead.

Minehead

Latitude
51.2058° or 51° 12′ 21″ north
Longitude
-3.4784° or 3° 28′ 42″ west
Population
12,000
Elevation
95 feet (29 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB MHD
Open location code
9C3R6G4C+8M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1338048528
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2642450
Wiki­data ID
Q1020217
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Minehead” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مينهد”
  • Armenian: “Մայնհեդ”
  • Asturian: “Minehead”
  • Basque: “Minehead”
  • Belarusian: “Майнгэд”
  • Belarusian: “Майнхед”
  • Bengali: “মাইনহেড”
  • Bulgarian: “Майнхед”
  • Catalan: “Minehead”
  • Cebuano: “Minehead”
  • Chinese: “Minehead”
  • Chinese: “迈恩黑德”
  • Chinese: “迈赫德”
  • Chinese: “邁恩希德”
  • Chinese: “邁恩黑德”
  • Chinese: “邁赫德”
  • Czech: “Minehead”
  • Dutch: “Minehead”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مينهد”
  • Esperanto: “Minehead”
  • French: “Minehead”
  • Georgian: “მაინჰედი”
  • German: “Minehead”
  • Gujarati: “માઇનહેડ”
  • Hebrew: “מיינהאד”
  • Irish: “Minehead”
  • Italian: “Minehead”
  • Japanese: “マインヘッド”
  • Kannada: “ಮೈನ್ಹೆಡ್”
  • Korean: “마인헤드”
  • Ladin: “Minehead”
  • Latin: “Minehead”
  • Lithuanian: “Mainhedas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Minehead”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Minehead”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Minehead”
  • Norwegian: “Minehead”
  • Persian: “ماینهد”
  • Persian: “مینهید”
  • Polish: “Minehead”
  • Portuguese: “Minehead”
  • Quechua: “Minehead”
  • Romanian: “Minehead”
  • Russian: “Майнхед”
  • Slovak: “Minehead”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مینهید”
  • Spanish: “Minehead”
  • Swedish: “Minehead”
  • Tagalog: “Minehead”
  • Tamil: “மீனேஹெட்”
  • Telugu: “మెయిన్హెడ్”
  • Turkish: “Minehead”
  • Ukrainian: “Майнгед”
  • Urdu: “مینیہیاد”
  • Volapük: “Minehead”
  • Welsh: “Minehead”
  • “Minehead”

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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 “Minehead”. Photo: RobThinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.