Henstown

Places of Interest

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.

Church of St James

Church

Photo: Andrew Riley, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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 2½ miles southwest of Henstown.

Places in the Area

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.

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 2 miles south of Henstown.

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. Brompton Regis is situated 3 miles west of Henstown.

Henstown

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Localities in the Area

Notable Places Nearby

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