Wellington and Blackdown Hills

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Wellington and Blackdown Hills is one of 29 National Trust places the Albion Guide maps in Somerset. It sits within the Blackdown Hills National Landscape. Pyrland and Dumpdon Hill are among the National Trust places within 13.2 km. Tiverton Parkway Station is 11 km away to the west.

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Photo of the Blackdown Hills, a National Landscape in south west England.

Blackdown Hills

You’re inside itNational Landscape near Broadhembury

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

Photo of Wellington Monument, a folly near Tiverton Parkway in the Blackdown Hills, Somerset, south west England.

Wellington Monument

Folly near Tiverton Parkway

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

1.4 km W

Photo of Wellington Park, a Grade II* registered house & garden near Bishop's Lydeard, Somerset, south west England.

Wellington Park

House & garden near Bishop's Lydeard

A small Edwardian park with a ha-ha and bandstand, laid out for Edward VII's coronation.

3.9 km NW

Photo of The Luppitt Inn, a pub in the Blackdown Hills, Devon, south west England.

The Luppitt Inn

Pub near Luppitt

A working-farm front parlour serving beer to a tiny room of locals, about as pared-back as a country pub gets.

10.6 km S

Photo of West Somerset Railway, a visitor attraction near Crowcombe, Somerset, south west England.

West Somerset Railway

Attraction near Crowcombe

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

11.9 km N

Photo of the Quantock Hills, a National Landscape in Somerset, south west England.

Quantock Hills

National Landscape near Holford

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

13.6 km N