Gauge Museum Blue Anchor
Gauge Museum Blue Anchor is a museum in Carhampton, West Somerset District, England. Gauge Museum Blue Anchor is situated nearby to Blue Anchor railway station, as well as near the motorhome stopover Hoburne Holiday Park.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Blue Anchor railway station and Church of St John the Baptist.
Blue Anchor railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Blue Anchor railway station is situated in the seaside village of Blue Anchor, Somerset, England, close to the larger village of Carhampton. It is on the West Somerset Railway, a heritage railway, and it houses one of the two museums of the West Somerset Railway Heritage Trust.
Church of St John the Baptist
Church
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of St John the Baptist in Carhampton, Somerset, England is a Grade I listed Anglican church. The first church in the village stood to the east of the present church and was dedicated to St Carannog, a Welsh monk of the 6th century. Church of St John the Baptist is situated 1 mile southwest of Gauge Museum Blue Anchor.
The Butchers Arms
Pub
Photo: Maigheach-gheal, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Butchers Arms is a pub, which is situated 1 mile southwest of Gauge Museum Blue Anchor.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Blue Anchor and Carhampton.
Blue Anchor
Village
Photo: Mark Percy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Blue Anchor is a seaside village, in the parish of Old Cleeve, close to Carhampton in Somerset, England. The village takes its name from a 17th-century inn; the bay, Blue Anchor Bay, was previously known as Cleeve Bay.
Carhampton
Village
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
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.
Gauge Museum Blue Anchor
- Type: Museum
- Roof shape: gabled
- Categories: building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Carhampton, West Somerset District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.18156° or 51° 10′ 54″ northLongitude
-3.40082° or 3° 24′ 3″ westLevels
1Operator
West Somerset Railway Heritage TrustOpen location code
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tourism=museumOpenStreetMap attribute
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