Butcher’s Field Plantation

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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. Wimbleball Lake is situated 1½ miles east of Butcher’s Field Plantation.

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 2 miles southwest of Butcher’s Field Plantation.

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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.

Dulverton

Town

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Exmoor National Park is situated in the south west of the United Kingdom. It spreads across the north coast of Devon and west Somerset and was one of Britain's first national parks. Dulverton is situated 2½ miles southwest of Butcher’s Field Plantation.

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 Butcher’s Field Plantation.

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