Villages & towns in SomersetSomerset, England

Mendip village at the mouth of its famous gorge, cheese-making since the twelfth century and gateway to the show caves.

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Medieval Exmoor village of over 200 listed buildings, its cobbled main street climbing past the octagonal Yarn Market to a Norman castle above the roofs.

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Thatched Exmoor village at the foot of notoriously steep Porlock Hill, a huddle of old cottages between the moor and its pebble-banked weir.

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

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Legend-steeped market town beneath its Tor, with abbey ruins, the Chalice Well and a High Street of crystal shops and cafes.

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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.

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England's smallest city, a compact medieval huddle of cathedral, moated Bishop's Palace and the cobbled Vicars' Close beneath the Mendips.

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Exmoor-edge hamlet famous for its twin-arched medieval packhorse bridge over the stream, with a rural life museum in the old school.

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Handsome former wool town on the River Brue, with a packhorse bridge, a hilltop dovecote and the Hauser & Wirth art gallery on its edge.

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

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

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Postcard hamlet of limewashed thatched cottages set round a green below Exmoor, its white All Saints Church looking over the Vale of Porlock.

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Exmoor village threaded by seven bridges and fords over the Winn and Exe, with a thatched inn and Winsford Hill and its ponies above.

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Compact medieval town on the edge of the Levels, its square framed by King John's Hunting Lodge, a jettied timber merchant's house.

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Thatched village on the western Quantock slopes, with a red-sandstone church and a thousand-year-old yew in its churchyard.

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Handsome small market town of honey-coloured stone with a round lock-up, an arched market house and rolling country all around.

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Once the ancient capital of Wessex, a mellow small town round a market cross and St Michael's church on the edge of the Levels.

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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.

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Mendip-valley village between Wells and Shepton Mallet, its church famous for a soaring Jacobean carved-oak screen and pulpit.

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Quiet Quantock-fringe village near the coast, with the earthwork-ringed ruins of a small moated Norman castle.

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Old market village on its low 'Isle' above the Levels near Wells, with a fine church tower, cider farm and a summer real-ale festival.

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Large ham-stone village south of the Levels, with thatched cottages, a tall crossing tower on St Peter and St Paul, and the Brewers Arms.

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