Hestercombe Gardens
Hestercombe Gardens is in West Monkton, Taunton Deane District, England, and is located on Volid Hill. Hestercombe Gardens is situated nearby to the community center Cheddon Fitzpaine Memorial Hall, as well as near the park Gadd’s Bottom Nature Reserve.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Hestercombe Gardens and Taunton railway station.
Hestercombe Gardens
Building
Hestercombe Gardens is a garden complex situated on the grounds of Hestercombe House in the southwestern English county of Somerset. The entire garden complex comprises three individual gardens from different stylistic periods.
Taunton railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Taunton railway station serves the county town of Taunton, in Somerset, England. It is a stop on the Bristol to Exeter line, the Reading to Taunton line and the Cross Country Route. Taunton railway station is situated 2 miles south of Hestercombe Gardens.
St Augustine’s Church, West Monkton
Church
Photo: Celiakozlowski, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 Augustine’s Church, West Monkton is situated 1¼ miles east of Hestercombe Gardens.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cheddon Fitzpaine and Kingston St Mary.
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.
Kingston St Mary
Village
Kingston St Mary is a village and parish in Somerset, England, situated at the southern end of the Quantock Hills 4 miles north of Taunton. The village has a population of 921.
West Monkton
Village
Photo: Celiakozlowski, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Hestercombe Gardens
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Address: Volid Hill, Taunton, TA2 8LG
- Category: tourism
- Location: West Monkton, Taunton Deane District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.05308° or 51° 3′ 11″ northLongitude
-3.08384° or 3° 5′ 2″ westOperator
Hestercombe Gardens TrustOpen location code
9C3R3W38+6FOpenStreetMap ID
way 118357600OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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