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Photo of Montacute House, a Grade I registered house & garden in Somerset, south west England.

Montacute House© RobJN / Wikimedia Commons · CC0

Places to explore near Yeovil Pen Mill StationYeovil

41 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 along the Monarch's Way, a 625-mile long-distance path running from Worcester to Shoreham-by-Sea, England.Highlight

Monarch's Way

Long-distance path

England's longest inland waymarked trail, tracing Charles II's escape route from defeat at Worcester in 1651 to the ship waiting at Shoreham.

0.4 km W · spans 14 counties

Photo of Barwick Park, a Grade II* registered house & garden near East Coker, Somerset, south west England.Highlight

Barwick Park

House & garden near East Coker

A parkland of four eccentric 1770s follies, including Jack the Treacle Eater.

2.2 km SW

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.

6.1 km SE · spans 10 counties

Photo of the Dorset National Landscape, a National Landscape in Dorset, south west England.Highlight

Dorset National Landscape

National Landscape near Dorchester

Chalk ridges, quiet combes and one of the finest coastlines in England, from Lyme Bay to Purbeck

6.6 km S

Photo of Sherborne Abbey, an abbey in Dorset, south west England.Highlight

Sherborne Abbey

Abbey near Sherborne

Fan-vaulted abbey church in a golden-stone town.

6.8 km E

Photo of Sherborne, a village in Dorset, south west England.Highlight

Sherborne

Village

A mellow ochre-stone market town built around its great fan-vaulted abbey, with two castles and elegant medieval streets.

6.8 km E · Dorset

Photo of Montacute House, a Grade I registered house & garden in Somerset, south west England.Iconic

Montacute House

House & garden near Montacute

Golden-stone Elizabethan showpiece with long gallery.

7.1 km W

Photo of Ham Hill Country Park, a country park near Montacute, Somerset, south west England.Highlight

Ham Hill Country Park

Country park near Montacute

One of the largest Iron Age hillforts in Britain, a rampart-ringed limestone plateau above the Somerset lowlands and the source of golden Ham stone

7.3 km W

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

Montacute

Village

Ham-stone village below its conical St Michael's Hill near Yeovil, its streets built from the same golden stone as the great Elizabethan house.

7.5 km W · Somerset

Photo of Tintinhull Garden, a Grade II registered house & garden near Montacute, Somerset, south west England.Highlight

Tintinhull Garden

House & garden near Montacute

A small Arts and Crafts garden of yew-clipped rooms and bold, painterly colour schemes.

7.6 km NW

Photo of The Queens Arms, a gastropub near Corton Denham, Somerset, south west England.Highlight

The Queens Arms

Gastropub · With rooms near Corton Denham

Remote Somerset/Dorset border village inn with rooms, picked by olive and Mr & Mrs Smith.

9 km NE

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Photo of Yeovil Country Park, a country park near East Coker, Somerset, south west England.

Yeovil Country Park

Country park near East Coker

A country park in Somerset.

0.1 km SW

Photo of Ninesprings, Yeovil Country Park, a garden in Somerset, south west England.

Ninesprings, Yeovil Country Park

Garden near Yeovil

Victorian pleasure-ground valley on the edge of Yeovil, with waterfalls, ponds, stepping stones and wooded walks.

1.8 km SW

East Coker

Village

Golden ham-stone village near Yeovil, T.S. Eliot's ancestral home and the place named in his Four Quartets, where his ashes lie in the church.

4.5 km SW · Somerset

Yetminster

Village

A honey-coloured limestone village north of the Blackmore Vale, its long main street lined with fine 17th-century houses.

6.1 km SE · Dorset

Photo of Sherborne Castle Gardens, a Grade I registered house & garden in Dorset, south west England.

Sherborne Castle Gardens

House & garden near Sherborne

A house built by Sir Walter Raleigh, with a Capability Brown lake.

8.8 km E

Photo along the River Parrett Trail, a 50-mile long-distance path running from Chedington to Stert Point, south west England.

River Parrett Trail

Long-distance path

Source to sea with the Parrett, from the Dorset border hills across the Somerset Levels to the Bristol Channel at Stert Point.

8.9 km W · Somerset & Dorset

The Clockspire

Restaurant near Milborne Port

Fine dining in a converted Victorian schoolhouse near Sherborne.

9.2 km E

Photo of Stoke-Sub-Hamdon Priory, an abbey near Montacute, Somerset, south west England.

Stoke-Sub-Hamdon Priory

Abbey near Montacute

A National Trust place in Somerset.

9.7 km W

English Oak Vineyard

Vineyard near Alweston

A family vineyard offering booked tours and informal cellar-door tastings from Wednesday to Sunday in the Dorset countryside.

9.7 km E

Everything else within 10 km (21) — 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.