Baker’s Wood

Baker’s Wood is a forest in Withycombe, West Somerset District, England. Baker’s Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Rodhuish, as well as near the village Withycombe.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dunster Castle and Church of St Nicholas, Withycombe.

Dunster Castle

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Dunster Castle is a former motte and bailey castle, now a country house, in the village of Dunster, Somerset, England. The castle lies on the top of a steep hill called the Tor, and has been fortified since the late Anglo-Saxon period.

Church of St Nicholas, Withycombe

Church

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The Church of St Nicholas in Withycombe, Somerset, England dates from the 13th century and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.

Bat’s Castle

Archaeological site

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Bats Castle is an Iron Age hillfort at the top of a 213 metres high hill in the parish of Carhampton south south west of Dunster in Somerset, England. Though clearly shown on the 1902 Ordnance Survey 25 inch map, the site was "identified" in 1983 after some schoolboys found eight silver-plated coins dating from 102BC to AD350.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Carhampton and Dunster.

Carhampton

Village

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Carhampton is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, 4 miles to the east of Minehead. Carhampton civil parish stretches from the Bristol Channel coast inland to Exmoor. The parish has a population of 865.

Dunster

Village

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Dunster is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, within the north-eastern boundary of Exmoor National Park. It lies on the Bristol Channel 2.5 miles southeast of Minehead and 20 miles northwest of Taunton.

Old Cleeve

Village

Photo: Martin Southwood, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Old Cleeve is a village 5 miles south east of Minehead in Somerset, England, and also a civil parish. The civil parish of Old Cleeve covers an area of 2,092 hectares and includes the villages of Old Cleeve, Roadwater and Washford as well as hamlets such as Bilbrook, Chapel Cleeve, Golsoncott and Leighland Chapel.

Baker’s Wood

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

51.1525° or 51° 9′ 9″ north

Longitude

-3.423° or 3° 25′ 23″ west

Open location code

9C3R5H3G+2Q

OpenStreetMap ID

way 449190635

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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