Birch Wood
Birch Wood is a locality in Brompton Regis, West Somerset District, England. Birch Wood is situated nearby to the locality Wynne Corner, as well as near Swines Cleeve.Places of Interest
Highlights include Haddon Hill and Bury Castle.
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…
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.
Pixton Park
Manor estate
Pixton Park is a country house in the parish of Dulverton, Somerset, England. It is associated with at least three historically significant families, successively by descent: Acland, amongst the largest landowners in the West Country; Herbert, politicians and diplomats; and Waugh, writers.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dulverton and Brompton Regis.
Dulverton
Town
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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 2 miles west of Birch Wood.
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 2 miles north of Birch Wood.
Brushford
Village
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brushford is a village and civil parish 2 miles south of Dulverton and 12 miles north of Tiverton in Devon, in Somerset, England. According to the 2001 census, it had a population of 535 in 243 households, reducing to 519 at the 2011 Census. Brushford is situated 2 miles southwest of Birch Wood.
Birch Wood
Latitude
51.04434° or 51° 2′ 40″ northLongitude
-3.50525° or 3° 30′ 19″ westOpen location code
9C3R2FVV+PVOpenStreetMap ID
node 9738081500OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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