Buncombe Wood

Buncombe Wood is a forest in Spaxton, Sedgemoor District, England. Buncombe Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Courtway, as well as near the locality Dene Hill Plantation.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, Cothelstone and Ruborough Camp.

Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, Cothelstone

Church

Photo: Harrias, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The romanesque red sandstone Church of St Thomas of Canterbury in Cothelstone, Somerset, England dates from the 12th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.

Ruborough Camp

Archaeological site

Ruborough Camp is an Iron Age hill fort on the Quantock Hills near Broomfield in Somerset, England. The name comes from Rugan beorh or Ruwan-beorge meaning Rough Hill. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and on the Heritage at Risk Register.

Hawkridge Reservoir

Reservoir

Hawkridge Reservoir is a reservoir near Spaxton, Somerset, England. The inflow is from several streams in the Quantock Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty including Peart Water, which continues below the reservoir in a northeast direction to Spaxton, where it enters the Ashford Reservoir.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bishops Lydeard and Kingston St Mary.

Bishops Lydeard

Village

Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Taunton is the county town of Somerset, a county in the south-west of England. Taunton has several landmarks room its thousand-year history, and is famous for its cider.

Kingston St Mary

Village

Photo: Dbown100, CC BY 3.0.

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.

Broomfield

Village

Photo: Ken Grainger, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Broomfield is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated about five miles north of Taunton. According to the 2011 census, it had a population of 249.

Buncombe Wood

Type: Forest
Location: Spaxton, Sedgemoor District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.0898° or 51° 5′ 23″ north

Longitude

-3.1397° or 3° 8′ 23″ west

Open location code

9C3R3VQ6+W4

OpenStreetMap ID

way 178242676

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=forest

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Localities in the Area

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