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Hestercombe House

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Hestercombe House is one of 177 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset. It is the smallest of them. The nearest railway station is Taunton, about 3.6 km to the south. The Quantocks and West Sedgemoor are among the SSSIs within 10.1 km.

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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.

0.3 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

1.5 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.

7.6 km W

Photo of Coates English Willow, a visitor attraction near Barrington (Barrington), Somerset, south west England.Highlight

Coates English Willow

Attraction near Barrington (Barrington)

A working withy farm and museum at Stoke St Gregory on the Levels, where willow is still grown, cut and woven the traditional way.

9.8 km E

Photo along the King Charles III England Coast Path, a 2,700-mile National Trail in England.

King Charles III England Coast Path

National Trail

One path around a whole country — beach, clifftop and seawall the entire way round England's coast, opening stretch by stretch.

11.1 km NE · spans 24 counties

Photo of Crowcombe, a village in Somerset, south west England.

Crowcombe

Village

Ancient village on the south-western slopes of the Quantocks, gathered round the Grade I Church of the Holy Ghost and its carved bench ends.

11.7 km NW · Somerset