River Tone at French Weir Park

England's first protected landscape, a heather ridge above deep wooded combes, with red deer and the sea close by

4.7 km N

Three gardens from three centuries, including an early Lutyens and Jekyll formal garden.

4.7 km NE

Quiet farmland, wooded combes and little lanes on the Devon–Somerset border — a gentle, unhurried corner

5 km SE

Britain's longest standard-gauge heritage line, running steam trains twenty miles from Bishops Lydeard along the coast to Minehead.

6.9 km NW

Grounds of the Georgian home where the 'Thunder and Lightning Man' ran electrical experiments.

7.4 km N

A tall triangular obelisk on the Blackdown Hills escarpment above Wellington, the world's tallest such column, honouring the Duke of Wellington.

11.3 km SW