Upton Wood
Upton Wood is a forest in Upton, West Somerset District, England. Upton Wood is situated nearby to the locality Great Moor, as well as near East Moor.Places of Interest
Highlights include Wimbleball Lake and Haddon Hill.
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.
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…
Church of St John
Church
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Anglican Church of St John in Skilgate, Somerset, England was built in the 14th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Upton and Skilgate.
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.
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.
Upton Wood
- Type: Forest
- Location: Upton, West Somerset District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.0523° or 51° 3′ 8″ northLongitude
-3.4601° or 3° 27′ 36″ westOpen location code
9C3R3G2Q+WXOpenStreetMap ID
way 135736998OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=forest
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