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Photo of Longleat, a Grade I registered house & garden near Frome, Wiltshire, south west England.

LongleatPhoto Ray Harrington / Unsplash

Places to explore near Frome StationFrome

48 places within 10 km — the standouts first, nearest first within each group. 1 is a national icon.

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Worth the tripnational icons and local highlights within reach

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

Frome

Village

Independent-spirited market town on the Mendip edge, its steep cobbled Catherine Hill and Cheap Street lined with galleries, makers and a monthly market.

1 km W · Somerset

Photo of Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs, a National Landscape in England.Highlight

Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs

National Landscape near Tisbury

Big chalk downland and old hunting country, with some of the darkest night skies in southern England

3.1 km SE

Photo along the Macmillan Way, a 290-mile long-distance path running from Boston to Abbotsbury, England.Highlight

Macmillan Way

Long-distance path

Boston to Abbotsbury down the limestone belt — 290 miles waymarked in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.

3.8 km W · spans 10 counties

Photo of Nunney Castle, a ruined castle in Somerset, south west England.Highlight

Nunney Castle

Castle near Nunney

Moated French-style tower castle in a village.

5.1 km W

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

Nunney

Village

Mendip-edge village gathered round a moated fourteenth-century castle, one of the very few in Somerset ringed by water.

5.2 km W · Somerset

Photo of Longleat, a Grade I registered house & garden near Frome, Wiltshire, south west England.Iconic

Longleat

House & garden near Frome

Elizabethan house with Britain's first safari park.

5.8 km SE

Photo of The Talbot Inn, a gastropub near Mells, Somerset, south west England.Highlight

The Talbot Inn

Gastropub · With rooms near Mells

15th-century coaching inn in the picture-book village of Mells, an olive gastropub pick.

5.9 km W

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

Mells

Village

Domesday village of honey-coloured hamstone on the Mendip fringe, with a manor, a leafy street called New Street and an Easter Daffodil Day.

6.6 km W · Somerset

Photo of Tucker's Grave Inn, a pub near Faulkland, Somerset, south west England.Highlight

Tucker's Grave Inn

Pub near Faulkland

Cider and ale served straight from casks on a stillage in the window recess of a cottage with no bar at all.

8.2 km NW

Photo of the Cotswolds, a National Landscape in England.Highlight

Cotswolds

National Landscape near Cirencester

Honey-coloured limestone villages scattered across rolling sheep country, and paths enough to link them all up

9.7 km N

Also nearbygood places nearby, nearest first

Photo along the Mendip Way, a 50-mile long-distance path running from Uphill to Frome, south west England.

Mendip Way

Long-distance path

Fifty miles along the Mendip ridge from the Bristol Channel at Uphill to Frome, past Cheddar Gorge and the cathedral at Wells.

0.9 km NW · Somerset

Photo of Cley Hill, a Site of Special Scientific Interest near Frome, Wiltshire, south west England.

Cley Hill

SSSI near Frome

A Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire.

5.7 km SE

The Bath Arms at Longleat

Gastropub · With rooms near Horningsham

Village inn on the edge of the Longleat estate, listed among Britain's 100 best pubs.

6.9 km SE

Photo of Brokerswood Country Park, a country park near Norton St Philip, Wiltshire, south west England.

Brokerswood Country Park

Country park near Norton St Philip

A country park in Wiltshire.

7 km NE

Photo of St Mary's Church, Old Dilton, a church near Dilton Marsh, Wiltshire, south west England.

St Mary's Church, Old Dilton

Church near Dilton Marsh

Little-altered 14th-century church near Westbury with box pews, a three-decker pulpit and a tiny stone spire, kept by the Churches Conservation Trust.

7.5 km E

Photo of The George Inn (Norton St Philip), a pub in Somerset, south west England.

The George Inn (Norton St Philip)

Pub near Norton St Philip

Galleried medieval inn on the square at Norton St Philip, said to be among England's oldest continuously licensed taverns and named a pub of the year.

8.3 km N

Norton St Philip

Village

Old wool village between Bath and Frome, home to the George Inn, a medieval galleried inn said to be among England's oldest taverns.

9 km N · Somerset

Photo along the Wessex Ridgeway, a 136-mile long-distance path running from Marlborough to Lyme Regis, south west England.

Wessex Ridgeway

Long-distance path

The prehistoric chalk line continued — from Marlborough across Salisbury Plain and Cranborne Chase to the sea at Lyme Regis.

9.3 km E · Wiltshire, Dorset & Devon

Photo of Southwick Country Park, a country park near Iford, Wiltshire, south west England.

Southwick Country Park

Country park near Iford

A country park in Wiltshire.

9.4 km NE

Everything else within 10 km (29) — reserves, earthworks & places to check before travelling

Ordered by how far each place is worth travelling for, then by distance. Distances are straight-line to the nearest edge of each place — paths wind, of course.