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Washford

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Washford is a village on the Washford River in the civil parish of Old Cleeve, Somerset, England. The village is next to Cleeve Abbey, one of the best-preserved medieval monasteries in England. It centred in a valley close to the Bristol Channel on the A39 road east of the resort town of Minehead and southwest of the port of Watchet.

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Place details

Locality
Washford
Region
England
Country
United Kingdom
Population
601
Timezone
Europe/London

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Instance of
village
Located in
Old Cleeve
Image
CleeveAbbeyDormitoryC.jpg
Dialing code
01984
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Washford
OS grid reference
ST045415

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Washford is a village on the Washford River in the civil parish of Old Cleeve, Somerset, England. The village is next to Cleeve Abbey, one of the best-preserved medieval monasteries in England. It centred in a valley close to the Bristol Channel on the A39 road east of the resort town of Minehead and southwest of the port of Watchet.

The village lies on the route of the Somerset Way and Celtic Way Exmoor Option.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Washford” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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