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Wells

Wells is the smallest city in , with a population of around 10,000. It is in in the south-west of the country.
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  • Type: City with 11,000 residents
  • Description: cathedral city in Somerset, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Wells, Somerset”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wells Cathedral and Chain Gate.

Church
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, formally the Cathedral Church of St Andrew, is a Church of England cathedral in Wells, Somerset, England. It is the seat of the bishop of Bath and Wells and the mother church of the diocese of Bath and Wells.

City gate
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The in Wells, , England, is an entrance gateway adjacent to the north side of , controlling access from St Andrew Street to the Cathedral Green within the Liberty of St Andrew.

Castle
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The Bishop's Palace is the residence of the bishop of Bath and Wells in Wells, Somerset, England. The palace is adjacent to and has been the residence of the bishops since the early thirteenth century.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dinder and Wookey Hole.

Village
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is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of , in the Somerset district, in the ceremonial county of .

Village
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is a village in Somerset, England. It is the location of the show caves.

Village
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is a collection of three small villages in the parish of 1 mile or 2 miles east of Wells, , England. South is a relatively new village created in the late 1990s from the defunct Mendip Hospital that was closed in 1991.

Wells

Latitude
51.2095° or 51° 12′ 34″ north
Longitude
-2.6451° or 2° 38′ 42″ west
Population
11,000
Elevation
138 feet (42 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB WLS
Open location code
9C3V6953+QX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 304611
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2634569
Wiki­data ID
Q212283
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Wells” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مدينة ولز”
  • Arabic: “ولز، سومرست”
  • Arabic: “ولز”
  • Armenian: “Ուելս”
  • Asturian: “Wells”
  • Basque: “Wells”
  • Bengali: “ওয়েলস”
  • Catalan: “Wells”
  • Cebuano: “Wells”
  • Chinese: “Wells”
  • Chinese: “韋爾斯”
  • Chinese: “韦尔斯”
  • Czech: “Wells”
  • Danish: “Wells”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Wells”
  • Dutch: “Wells”
  • Esperanto: “Wells”
  • Finnish: “Wells”
  • French: “Wells”
  • German: “Wells”
  • Greek: “Ουέλς”
  • Gujarati: “વેલ્સ”
  • Hebrew: “וולס”
  • Hindi: “वैल्स”
  • Hungarian: “Wells”
  • Icelandic: “Wells”
  • Indonesian: “Wells, Sommerset”
  • Indonesian: “Wells”
  • Irish: “Wells”
  • Italian: “Wells”
  • Japanese: “ウェルズ”
  • Kannada: “ವೆಲ್ಸ್”
  • Korean: “웰스”
  • Kurdish: “Wells”
  • Ladin: “Wells (Somerset)”
  • Ladin: “Wells”
  • Latin: “Wellae”
  • Latin: “Wells”
  • Latvian: “Vellsa”
  • Latvian: “Velsa”
  • Lithuanian: “Velsas”
  • Malay: “Wells”
  • Marathi: “वेल्स”
  • Mazanderani: “ولز، انگلستان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Wells (Somerset)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Wells, Somerset”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wells”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wells”
  • Norwegian: “Wells”
  • Persian: “ولز، انگلستان”
  • Polish: “Wells”
  • Portuguese: “Wells”
  • Romanian: “Wells”
  • Russian: “Уэллс”
  • Russian: “Уэлс”
  • Scots: “Wells, Somerset”
  • Scots: “Wells”
  • Serbian: “Велс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wells”
  • Sinhala: “වෙල්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Wells”
  • Slovenian: “Wells, Somerset”
  • Spanish: “Wells”
  • Swedish: “Wells, Somerset”
  • Swedish: “Wells”
  • Tagalog: “Wells”
  • Tamil: “வெல்ஸ்”
  • Telugu: “వెల్స్”
  • Thai: “เวลส์”
  • Turkish: “Wells”
  • Ukrainian: “Велз”
  • Ukrainian: “Веллс”
  • Ukrainian: “Велльс”
  • Ukrainian: “Уеллс”
  • Ukrainian: “Уелльс”
  • Ukrainian: “Уелс”
  • Urdu: “ویلز، سومرسیٹ”
  • Urdu: “ویلز”
  • Uzbek: “Uels, Angliya”
  • Vietnamese: “Wells”
  • Volapük: “Wells”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wells”
  • Welsh: “Wells”
  • Western Frisian: “Wells”
  • Western Panjabi: “ولز”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Wells”. Photo: matthewhartley369, CC BY-SA 2.0.