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

Wellington Monument© Lewis Clarke / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Places to explore near Tiverton Parkway StationTiverton Parkway

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

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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.

9.8 km E

Also nearbygood places nearby, nearest first

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.

0.9 km N · Devon & Somerset

Grand Western Canal Country Park

Country park near Bampton (Bampton)

A country park in Devon.

0.9 km N

Blackdown Hills

National Landscape near Broadhembury

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

5.6 km SE

St Andrew, Cullompton

Church near Cullompton

Late-medieval wool church with a fan-vaulted Lane Aisle and a rare carved and painted rood screen.

7 km S

Knightshayes Court

House & garden near Bampton (Bampton)

A Gothic house by William Burges, its Garden in the Wood full of rare shrubs.

8.8 km W

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

Canonsleigh AbbeyAbbeyaccess unclear4.2 km NE
Maiden DownSSSI4.2 km NE
Lower WhipcottSSSIaccess unclear4.9 km NE
Stout's CottageSSSIaccess unclear5.2 km N
Black Down and Sampford CommonsSSSI6.4 km E
Huntsham CastleEarthworks of a former castleaccess unclear6.7 km NW
Tidcombe Lane FenSSSIaccess unclear6.8 km W
Cranmore CastleEarthworks of a former castleaccess unclear8.9 km W
Hemyock CastleCastleaccess unclear9 km E
Tiverton CastleCastleaccess unclear9.1 km W

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.