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

West Somerset Railway© Andy Li / Wikimedia Commons · CC0

Places to explore near Taunton StationTaunton

27 places within 10 km — the standouts first, nearest first within each group.

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Worth the tripnational icons and local highlights within reach

Photo of Hestercombe Gardens, a Grade I registered house & garden near Crowcombe, Somerset, south west England.Highlight

Hestercombe Gardens

House & garden near Crowcombe

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

3.9 km NE

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

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

4.1 km N

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

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.

7.2 km NW

Also nearbygood places nearby, nearest first

Photo of the Bridgwater & Taunton Canal, a 15-mile canal running from Bridgwater Docks to Taunton, south west England.

Bridgwater & Taunton Canal

Canal

Somerset's surviving canal, crossing the Levels between its two towns past a chain of Second World War pillboxes.

0.3 km SE · Somerset

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

Blackdown Hills

National Landscape near Broadhembury

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

5.1 km SE

Photo of Sheppy's Cider, a farm & farm shop near Bradford-on-Tone, Somerset, south west England.

Sheppy's Cider

Farm & farm shop near Bradford-on-Tone

Two-hundred-year-old cider farm at Bradford-on-Tone near Taunton, with a cafe, shop, museum and 'Harvest' tours of the whole operation.

5.8 km SW

Photo of Fyne Court, a country estate near Crowcombe in the Quantock Hills, Somerset, south west England.

Fyne Court

Country estate near Crowcombe

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

6.8 km N

Photo of St Mary's Church, Bishops Lydeard, a church in Somerset, south west England.

St Mary's Church, Bishops Lydeard

Church near Bishops Lydeard

Red-sandstone Quantock church with a fine Somerset tower, a painted rood screen and its own fox-and-geese bench ends.

7.3 km NW

Photo of the Grand Western Canal, an 11-mile canal running from Tiverton to Lowdwells, south west England.

Grand Western Canal

Canal

A lock-free Devon canal kept as a country park, running through red-earth farmland from Tiverton to the Somerset border.

8.6 km W · Devon & Somerset

Everything else within 10 km (18) — 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.