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Combe Sydenham Hall
Exmoor National Park
~6.05 miles from Fitzhead city center
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Combe Sydenham is a 15th century manor house south of Monksilver in the parish of Stogumber, Somerset, England. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.The porch was added in 1580 to the south front of the building. The west front was refenestrated, and at least 2 stair turrets added in the late 16th or early 17th century. The south front has been refenestrated and buildings to the north and east were demolished.Combe Sydenham Hall was the home of the Sydenham family from the fourteen hundreds to the mid 18th century.Combe Sydenham is mentioned as a manor belonging to William de Moyon in the Domesday Book in 1086.The house is set in a 500 acres (202.3 ha) estate which offers a Deer Park and a variety of walks
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Fyne Court
Somerset
~6.41 miles from Fitzhead city center
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Fyne Court is a National Trust-owned nature reserve and visitor centre in Broomfield, Bridgwater, Somerset, England.Originally the house pleasure grounds of pioneer 19th-century electrician, Andrew Crosse, whose family had owned the house from its construction. It burnt down in 1898. His laboratory table on which he carried out experiments stands in the aisle of the Church of St. Mary and All Saints in Broomfield and an obelisk in his memory is in the churchyard.Fyne Court has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1967. The Quantock Hills AONB Service have their headquarters in the grounds.
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County Cricket Ground
Somerset
~6.79 miles from Fitzhead city center
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County cricket is the highest level of domestic cricket in England and Wales.
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City Centre Taunton
Somerset
~6.84 miles from Fitzhead city center
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Nettlecombe Court
Exmoor National Park
~7.07 miles from Fitzhead city center
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Nettlecombe Court is a large country mansion in the English county of Somerset. Nettlecombe Court was originally built as a manor house, becoming a boys' preparatory school in 1963 and since 1967 has been the Leonard Wills Field Centre run by the Field Studies Council. The house is surrounded by Nettleton Park, a 90.4 hectares (223 acres) Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).The house and park are set in a secluded valley on the northern fringes of the Brendon Hills, within the Exmoor National Park. They are within the civil parish of Nettlecombe, named after the house, and are approximately 3.6 miles (5.8 km) from the village of Williton.
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Bakelite Museum
Exmoor National Park
~8.16 miles from Fitzhead city center
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Cleeve Abbey
Exmoor National Park
~9.00 miles from Fitzhead city center
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Cleeve Abbey is a medieval monastery located near the village of Washford, in Somerset, England. The abbey was founded in the late twelfth century as a house for monks of the austere Cistercian order. Over its 350-year monastic history Cleeve was undistinguished amongst the abbeys of its order, frequently ill-governed and often financially troubled. The sole member of the community to achieve prominence was John Hooper, who became a bishop during the Reformation.In 1536 Cleeve was closed by Henry VIII in the course of the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the abbey was converted into a country house. Subsequently, the status of the site declined and the abbey was used as farm buildings until the latter half of the nineteenth century when steps were taken to conserve the remains. In the ...
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City Centre Bridgwater
Somerset
~11.99 miles from Fitzhead city center
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Admiral Blake Museum
Somerset - 01278 456 127
~12.03 miles from Fitzhead city center
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The building is believed to be the birthplace of Robert Blake, General at Sea (1599–1657). It was built in the late 15th or early 16th century.
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Dunster Working Watermill
Exmoor National Park
~12.43 miles from Fitzhead city center
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Dunster Working Watermill (also known as Castle Mill) is a restored 18th century watermill situated in the grounds of Dunster Castle in Dunster, Somerset, England.The present mill, which was built around 1780, is built on the site of a mill mentioned in the Domesday Book and was restored to working order in 1979. It has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II listed building
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Dunster Castle
Exmoor National Park
~12.46 miles from Fitzhead city center
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Dunster Castle is the historical home of the Luttrell family located in the small town of Dunster, Somerset, England (grid reference SS991434). Colonel Sir Walter Luttrell gave Dunster Castle and the greater part of its contents to the National Trust in 1976. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.There has been a castle at the top of the hill at Dunster for more than 1,000 years. The Domesday Book records one on this location before 1066.The castle was granted by William the Conqueror to William de Mohun, whose family lived there until the castle was sold in 1376 by Lady Joan de Mohun to Lady Elizabeth Luttrell. Lady Elizabeth's descendants owned Dunster Castle until 1976.The castle dominates a steep hill overlooking the picturesque village of Dunste...
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City Centre Tiverton
Tiverton
~14.50 miles from Fitzhead city center
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Holnicote Estate
Exmoor National Park
~17.03 miles from Fitzhead city center
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Holnicote Estate is a National Trust property consisting of 5026 hectares of Exmoor National Park situated in West Somerset, England. The property has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1932.Holnicote Estate contains more than 240 km of footpaths and bridleways. It includes Dunkery and Selworthy Beacons, and the villages and hamlets of Selworthy, Allerford, Bossington, Horner and Luccombe as well as the Horner and Dunkery National Nature Reserve.The estate also plays host to a point-to-point course on which many Exmoor hunts hold their meetings throughout the spring.
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Barrington Court
~18.02 miles from Fitzhead city center
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Muchelney Abbey
Somerset
~18.89 miles from Fitzhead city center
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Muchelney Abbey is an English Heritage property in the village of Muchelney in the Somerset Levels, England.It comprises the remains and foundations of a medieval Benedictine abbey, the site of an earlier Anglo-Saxon abbey, and an early Tudor house dating from the 16th century, formerly the lodgings of the resident Abbot.The Abbey is the second largest in Somerset after Glastonbury. Of the main building only some foundation walls remain. The south cloister walk and the north wall of a refectory are other surviving features. The only intact structure is the Abbot's House with well-preserved architectural features including external stonework and inside a great chamber with ornate fireplace, carved settle and stained glass, and timber roof. An unusual attraction is the nearby thatched ...
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Stembridge Tower Mill
Somerset
~19.18 miles from Fitzhead city center
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Stembridge Tower Mill in High Ham, Somerset, England is the last remaining thatched windmill in England. It is the last survivor of five windmills that once existed in the area.A Tower Mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The advantage of the tower mill over the earlier post mill is that it is not necessary to turn the whole mill ("body", "buck") with all its machinery into the wind; this allows more space for the machinery as well as for storage.In the earliest tower mills the cap was turned into the wind with a long tail-pole which stretched down to the ground at the back of the mill. Later an endless chain was used which drove the cap through gearing as is used at...
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Exmoor National Park
Exmoor National Park
~19.29 miles from Fitzhead city center
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Exmoor is a National Park situated on the Bristol Channel coast of South West England. The park straddles two counties with 71% of the park located in Somerset and 29% located in Devon. The total area of the park, which includes the Brendon Hills and the Vale of Porlock, covers 692.8 square kilometres (267.5 sq mi) of hilly open moorland and includes 55 kilometres (34 mi) of coast. It is primarily an upland area with a dispersed population living mainly in small villages and hamlets. The largest settlements are Porlock, Dulverton, Lynton, and Lynmouth, which together contain almost 40% of the National Park population. Lynton and Lynmouth are combined into one parish and are connected by the Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway.Before it was a park, Exmoor was a Royal Forest and hunting grou...
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Weston super Mare Town Hall
Somerset
~23.65 miles from Fitzhead city center
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Weston-super-Mare is a seaside resort, town and civil parish in the unitary authority of North Somerset, which is within the ceremonial county of Somerset, England. It is located on the Bristol Channel coast, 18 miles (29 km) south west of Bristol, spanning the coast between the bounding high ground of Worlebury Hill and Bleadon Hill. It includes the suburbs of Oldmixon, West Wick and Worle. Its population according to the 2001 census was 71,758. Since 1983, Weston has been twinned with Hildesheim, Germany.Although there is evidence in the local area of occupation since the Iron Age, it was still a small village until the 19th century when it became a seaside resort, and was connected with local towns and cities by a railway, and two piers were built. The growth continued until the secon...
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City Centre Weston super Mare
Somerset
~23.72 miles from Fitzhead city center
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Tintinhull House Garden
~23.95 miles from Fitzhead city center
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Tintinhull House was built of Hamstone in the 17th century, being reshaped in the early 18th century. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The house was the property of the Napper family (who also owned Tintinhull Court) by 1630, and was passed own in the family until they sold it sometime after 1814.The Napper' let it to the Pitt family until the death of John Napper in 1791. It passed through several hands until 1835, when it was bought by Jeremiah Penny. In 1898 the then owner, Arthur Cobbett, added a single-storey extension to the east front before selling it to his tenant the botanist, Dr. S.J.M. Price. In 1933 it was bought by Phyllis Reiss and her husband, Capt. F.E. Reiss.The garden is laid out into areas separated by walls and hedges.The garden layout was d...
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Glastonbury Abbey
Glastonbury
~24.04 miles from Fitzhead city center
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Glastonbury Abbey was a rich and powerful monastery in Glastonbury, Somerset, England. Since at least the 12th century the Glastonbury area was frequently associated with the legend of King Arthur, a connection promoted by medieval monks who asserted that Glastonbury was Avalon. The abbey was suppressed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII of England. The ruins and associated buildings are open today as a visitor attraction.
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Montacute House
~24.21 miles from Fitzhead city center
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Montacute House, situated in the South Somerset village of Montacute, is described by its owners, the National Trust, as "one of the glories of late Elizabethan architecture". It has been designated by English Heritage as a grade I listed building, and Scheduled Ancient Monument. It was visited by 111,070 people in 2007.The three floored mansion, constructed of local Ham Hill stone, was built circa 1598 by Sir Edward Phelips, Master of the Rolls to Queen Elizabeth I. Some suggest architect William Arnold is responsible for the design, though it has yet to be substantiated.Built in what came to be thought of as the English Renaissance style, the house is distinguished by Dutch gables decorated with stone monkeys and other creatures. The many large, mullioned windows, an innovation of th...
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International Helicopter Museum
Somerset
~24.40 miles from Fitzhead city center
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The Helicopter Museum has over 80 helicopters in the collection with the ones on display to the public being housed in the main display building.A brief history on some of the aircraft in the collection can be found byclicking on the icons below. Complete histories are on show at the Museum.
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Lytes Cary Manor
Somerset
~25.09 miles from Fitzhead city center
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This is a delightful manor house with 14th century chapel and 15th century Great Hall. Refurbished in the 20th century, the manor exhibits Henry Lyte's famous 16th-century plant directory, 'Lytes Herbal'. The Arts & Crafts style garden was replanted to form 'rooms' with topiary and colourful herbaceous borders.
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City Centre Exeter
Exeter
~25.69 miles from Fitzhead city center
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Exeter Cathedral
Exeter
~25.70 miles from Fitzhead city center
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Exeter Cathedral, the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter at Exeter, is an Anglican cathedral, and the seat of the Bishop of Exeter, in the city of Exeter, Devon in South West England.The present building was complete by about 1400, and has several notable features including an early set of misericords, an astronomical clock and the longest uninterrupted vaulted ceiling in England.
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Fleet Air Arm Museum
Somerset
~26.31 miles from Fitzhead city center
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The Fleet Air Arm Museum is located 7 miles (11 km) north of Yeovil, and 40 miles (64 km) south of Bristol. It has an extensive collection of military and civilian aircraft, as well as models of Royal Navy ships, especially aircraft carriers. Some of the museum has interactive displays. It is located by RNAS Yeovilton, and the museum has viewing areas where visitors can watch military aircraft (especially helicopters) take off and land. The museum's aircraft collection numbers 94.
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City Centre Lyme Regis
Lyme Regis
~26.36 miles from Fitzhead city center
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City Centre Yeovil
Yeovil
~27.87 miles from Fitzhead city center
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City Centre Wells
Wells
~28.39 miles from Fitzhead city center
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