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Bat's Castle

Open accesson open access land, where the right to roam applies

Earthworks onlybanks, ditches and platforms — read the ground, not walls

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Bat's Castle is a hillfort in Somerset. The Albion Guide maps 29 hillforts in the county; this is one of them. It sits inside Exmoor National Park.

More at the National Heritage List entry

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Exmoor

You’re inside itNational Park near Winsford

High moor meeting a dramatic coast, with red deer and some of England's darkest skies.

Photo of Dunster Castle, a motte & bailey in Exmoor, Somerset, south west England.Iconic

Dunster Castle

Motte & bailey · Castle near Dunster

Wooded hilltop castle over a medieval Exmoor village.

1.4 km N

Photo of Dunster, a village in Exmoor, Somerset, south west England.Highlight

Dunster

Village

Medieval Exmoor village of over 200 listed buildings, its cobbled main street climbing past the octagonal Yarn Market to a Norman castle above the roofs.

1.5 km N · Somerset

Photo of The Luttrell Arms, a gastropub near Dunster in Exmoor, Somerset, south west England.Highlight

The Luttrell Arms

Gastropub · With rooms near Dunster

A historic Exmoor-village coaching inn beneath Dunster Castle, among The Good Pub Guide's top ten dining pubs for 2020.

1.8 km N

Photo along the South West Coast Path, a 630-mile National Trail running from Minehead to Poole, south west England.Highlight

South West Coast Path

National Trail

630 miles around England's toe — the longest and most demanding of the National Trails.

5 km N · spans 4 counties

Photo of Selworthy, a village in Exmoor, Somerset, south west England.Highlight

Selworthy

Village

Postcard hamlet of limewashed thatched cottages set round a green below Exmoor, its white All Saints Church looking over the Vale of Porlock.

8.5 km NW · Somerset